Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – Binding or covering and cutting
Patent
1995-05-17
1997-02-04
Briggs, William R.
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
Binding or covering and cutting
227 69, 227 80, B23P 1500, A43D 6100
Patent
active
055986170
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an apparatus for inserting wire into an intermittently fed insulating body of a structural element, with a wire supply device disposed on a pivotable base plate and with a device for forming and shaping a wire receiving duct, wherein, in the feed direction of the structural element, the forming and shaping device is disposed in front of the wire supply device as well as at the same angle as it and on the same side of the insulating body and has a lancing tool.
BACKGROUND
In an apparatus of the type known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,167,360, Ritter, to which EP-389 465 corresponds, the wire supply device is disposed on a base frame and, separated from it, a device for forming and shaping a wire receiving duct in the insulating body, which is linearly displaceable and pivotable synchronously with the wire supply device. A plurality of forming and shaping devices, placed on top of each other in a vertical direction, can be provided. The known device has the disadvantage that the forming and shaping device is disposed separated from the wire supply device and must therefore be separately triggered and displaced, and that the distance between the forming and shaping device and the wire supply device is fixedly preset.
THE INVENTION
It is an object to provide an apparatus of of the type recited at the outset which avoids the described disadvantages and allows a common actuation of the forming and shaping device and the wire supply device as well as their rapid adaptation to different dimensions of the insulating body and different web wire divisions of the structural element. The device in accordance with the invention is distinguished in that the forming and shaping device, fixedly connected with the wire supply device, can be moved together with it in the direction toward the insulating body of the structural element and away from it and is also pivotable together with the wire supply device.
In accordance with an embodiment which is particularly preferred from the structural viewpoint, a carriage, which can be displaced in the direction toward the insulating body and away from it, is provided on the pivotable base plate and has at least one feed clamp for feeding a web wire and at least one lancing needle disposed at a selectable distance from the feed clamp for forming and shaping the receiving duct in the insulating body.
In accordance with a further characteristic of the invention, the carriage has a laterally protruding adjusting rail, on which a lancing bar for receiving at least one lancing needle is disposed, which is linearly displaceable on the lancing bar and can be fixed in place by means of a clamping device.
In accordance with the invention, the distance between the lancing needle and the insertion line of the web wire defined by the feed clamp can be selected in accordance with the web wire division in the structural element and/or corresponding to a multiple thereof.
In accordance with a special embodiment of the invention it is provided that the web wire can be pulled off an endless wire supply by means of the feed clamp and the return stop and can be cut off the wire supply by means of a cutting device consisting of a cutting nozzle and a cutter, and that each lancing needle is located in a horizontal plane together with the associated return stop as well as the cutting nozzle of the associated cutting device.
By means of the invention it is achieved that the required web wires having the respectively required division can be fed through the insulating body without problems and with great accuracy, wherein triggering of the individual devices can take place in a simple manner.
DRAWINGS
Further characteristics and advantages of the invention will be explained in detail below by means of an exemplary embodiment, making reference to the drawings. Shown are in:
FIG. 1, a schematic horizontal section through the apparatus of the invention, wherein a lancing needle as well as a web wire to be fed in are shown in the upper half of the drawing figure
REFERENCES:
patent: 4506818 (1985-03-01), Ritter et al.
patent: 4706362 (1987-11-01), Strausberg
patent: 5115957 (1992-05-01), Smith et al.
Ritter Gerhard
Ritter Klaus
Briggs William R.
EVG Entwicklungs-u.Verwertungs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.
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