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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Homer L Eaton, Leucadia, CA (US);
Assignee:
MTS Vektronics Corporation, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242129 ; 206409 ; 242130 ; 242170 ;
Abstract
A wire harness is partly assembled by winding a number of wires on individual reels, fixing terminal pins to the wire ends, stacking the reels in the carousel support, upon which a multiple pin connector is mounted, and withdrawing individual wires for conection to the connector. A spindle extending through all wire reels is detachably connected to a support bar to enable the entire stack of reels with the wire thereon to be handled as a unitary assembly. The reels are stacked flat upon each other because the reel hubs are thicker to accommodate enlargement of reel peripheries as wire projects from the reels.