Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Movable through hopper to separate and elevate articles
Patent
1996-01-11
1997-12-30
Terrell, William E.
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Movable through hopper to separate and elevate articles
221200, 221 2, 221239, 221236, 221251, 198389, 29809, 29816, 29821, 29823, 29739, 29759, A24F 1504
Patent
active
057020302
ABSTRACT:
A feeding system for feeding blank contacts to a crimping device for crimping the contacts onto ends of lead wires. The contact feed system includes a bowl, and a scoop for removing contacts from the bowl. The scoop is preferably mounted on the end of a rotating arm so that the scoop describes the locus of a circumference of a vertical circle when the arm rotates. Contacts fall, under gravity, from the scoop, when it is near the apogee of travel, onto an angled chute that guides the contacts into a space between two parallel contact orienting rails. The contacts are stacked between the supporting contact orienting rails and a shuttle gate controlledly carries a single contact at a time into a drop tube that feeds the contact to a crimping device for crimping onto an end of a wire lead. In accordance with the invention, a plurality of the above-described feed systems may be connected through their respective drop tubes to a single crimping device, thereby allowing greater operator flexibility in changing from one type of specialized contact crimping to another.
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Terrell William E.
The Boeing Company
Tran Khoi H.
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