Metal deforming – With means to handle work or product – Including means to permit maneuvering of work or product at...
Patent
1989-10-10
1990-10-02
Larson, Lowell A.
Metal deforming
With means to handle work or product
Including means to permit maneuvering of work or product at...
295662, 29753, H01R 4304
Patent
active
049599887
ABSTRACT:
An applicator die for use with a crimping machine of the type in which a supply of terminals are fed in the form of a terminal strip comprising a carrier band and a plurality of terminals respectively secured at one end thereof to successive points along the band, individual leads are fed to the machine and the machine functions to crimpingly apply a terminal to an end of each lead and sever the terminal from the carrier band. The applicator die includes a housing defining a generally vertical slideway, a slide mounted for reciprocal, vertical movement in the slideway to actuate the crimping and severing dies, a cam pin carried by the slide, a cam plate pivotally secured to the housing and defining a cam slot receiving the cam pin, a pair of upper and lower horizontal guide plates defining the terminal strip feed path, a hanger structure secured to the lower end of the cam plate and extending downwardly along a side edge of the horizontal guide plates to a location below the guide plates, and a feed finger pivotally mounted on the lower end of the hanger structure underneath the guide plates and including a pointed end extending upwardly through a slot in the lower guide plate for engagement with drive holes in the terminal strip.
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Amp, Inc. Crimping Apparatus Drawing (1 sheet).
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Dassance Donald A.
Feldborg Richard E.
ACU-Crimp, Inc.
Larson Lowell A.
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