Stitching machine head and wire cassette therefor

Details Stitching machine head and wire cassette therefor Stitching machine head and wire cassette therefor

1996-04-08

1998-08-04

Smith, Scott A.

Elongated-member-driving apparatus

With means to form member prior to penetration of work

227 84, 227 88, 227 97, 242562, 2425631, B27F 723

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057881391

ABSTRACT:
A supply wire cassette is removably mounted on the face plate of a wire stitching machine head. The cassette carries a rotatable reel of wire from which wire is unreeled over a flexible, resilient brake lever through a check pawl and a guide tube, which guides the unreeled wire along an arcuate, wire-straightening path to an outlet at a cutter on the head. A wire holder is removably mounted on the cassette housing and holds the free end thereof in position at the outlet until the cassette is mounted on the face plate to ensure that the wire passes through the feed mechanism of the head. Actuation of the feed mechanism withdraws wire from the cassette, pivoting the brake lever to unbrake the supply reel. When a predetermined length of unreeled wire accumulates in the cassette housing, the brake lever is biased back into braking engagement with the reel. A sensor including a switch removably mounted in the cassette housing indicates when the supply reel is nearly empty.

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