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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1999
Alden Owen Long, Carlisle, PA (US);
Michael David Strong, Mechanicsburg, PA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A press (,) for operating a tooling unit in the performance of a manufacturing operation, such as crimping terminals onto a conductor. The press is adapted for attachment to the frame of a host machine (,), such as a lead maker, and for receiving a tooling unit, such as a terminal applicator (,). The press (,) includes a frame (,), a carriage (,) arranged for reciprocating motion with respect to the frame (,) and a ram (,) in sliding engagement with and carried by the carriage (,). A relatively low powered actuator (,) causes the ram (,) to move through a first incremental amount of movement during the first portion of the crimp cycle and a second, more powerful, actuator (,) causes the carriage (,) and ream (,) assembly to move through a second incremental amount of movement to complete the crimp cycle.