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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
May. 23, 1996
Yoshio Ishiwata, Isehara, JP;
Tsutomu Kamojima, Toyama-ken, JP;
Tsutomu Ishii, Toyama-ken, JP;
Junsei Tsuji, Tonami, JP;
Hideki Katayama, Toyama-ken, JP;
Molex Incorporated, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
A wire harness bundling apparatus includes carrier means for carrying harness wires sequentially, shifting means responsive to the amount of the harness wires carried for shifting the harness wires to an apparatus guide means, tape feeding means placed so as to permit the tape to traverse the harness wire pathway between the guide means. The tape is wound around a bundle of harness wires and upper and lower melting-and-pinching means melts and pinches portions of the tape on opposite sides of the harness wire bundle. A drive means drives the upper and lower melting-and-pinching means together to actuate a severing knife placed between the forward and rearward sides of the binding tape.