Wireworking – Crimping
Patent
1987-04-20
1988-07-19
Larson, Lowell A.
Wireworking
Crimping
140 71R, B21F 4500
Patent
active
047578459
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for bending or deploying selected, individual, stripped, electrical wires at the stripped free end of a ribbon cable. The apparatus comprises a base having a box-like recess with fixed components or plate-like members or shims to individually position the wires to be bent. The fixed components include tall positioning shims with notches extending downwardly to contact the insulating web of a ribbon cable between its stripped wires and to properly position the web and the wires. The fixed components also include short ground wire shims located between some of the tall positioning shims for receiving, thereadjacent, ground wires of the received ribbon cable. The fixed components also include short signal wire shims located between others of the tall positioning shims for receiving, thereadjacent, signal wires of the received ribbon cable. Also included within the apparatus are bending fingers operatively associated with the fixed components for reciprocal movement with respect thereto. The bending fingers are located in two rows on opposite sides of the notches, ribbon cable and wires for movement from retracted positions to advanced positions wherein the leading edges of the bending fingers contact and bend selected, individual stripped signal wires of the ribbon cable supported by, and positioned in, the fixed components. Also disclosed is the method of bending or deploying signal wires of a ribbon cable supported and positioned by the apparatus.
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AMP Incorporated
Larson Lowell A.
Pitts Robert W.
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