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A pair of cooperating die members are disposed in a housing and arranged to slidably move along respective intersecting axes so that a forming portion of one of the die members is caused to progressively approach the nest portion of the other die member along an incline terminating at the nose portion...     

This invention relates to a terminal locator and retainer device for use in crimping dies. More particularly the device consists of a molded block of resilient material which contains locating means for accurately positioning the terminal and retaining means for holding the terminal and wire being terminated...     

Apparatus for forming solderless terminations in a connector is provided which trims the wires to be terminated and locates the trimmed wires in precise predetermined parallel spaced positions. An adapter having a connector mounted therein is movable into desired aligned relationship with the wires,...     

Apparatus for processing a terminal carrier strip comprising terminals attached sidewise to form the carrier strip, includes terminal carrier strip feed means for feeding the carrier strip in a carrier strip feed direction, and turning means cooperating with the terminal carrier strip feed means to turn...     

Apparatus for assembling post insulated wire splices, each assembled splice having first a connector crimped around the wires and next insulation therearound, comprises wire gripper means to retain wires to be spliced in a fixed splice working position, connector forming means for crimping a connector...     

Cable lengths are prepared for extruding a plug at the end in that the lengths are stepwise moved through stations, in which each cable length is turned and oriented as to its leads; the lead ends are stripped, tinplated and shaped in sequential stations followed by connecting preassembled contact prongs...     

A wiring harness in the form of a sandwich of insulating sheets is formed by automatic means. The sheets are held together by adhesive and enclose an inner layer of conductors. Openings through the walls of the insulating sheets provide access to the conductors for external wiring. Spacing is provided...     

A machine for attaching terminals to electrical conductors is disclosed wherein the bed and ram of an applicator are relatively movable together and apart and each carries a cooperating one of a pair of crimping dies to crimp a terminal onto a conductor when the ram and bed are moved together. A terminal...     

An improved connector applicator tool is disclosed for applying multi-contact electrical connectors into flat cables formed of a plurality of closely spaced parallel conductors. The tool is a bench mounted applicator which is adjustable to accommodate preformed multi-conductor flat cables of conventional...     

An adjustable crimp die assembly adapted to be mounted in a press for crimping a plurality of terminals onto stripped insulated wire leads. The crimp die assembly includes a base with a terminal supporting structure having a crimp station whereat a terminal is crimped onto a wire lead, punch asssembly...     

Wire feeding means which can be used with conventional wire crimping presses are disclosed. A movable funnel is used to precisely position the wires in a crimping station. Movement of the funnel in synchronization with the terminal feed mechanism extracts the wire from the crimping station and relative...     

A machine for semi-automatically trimming insulated conductor wires and inserting the trimmed wires into solderless terminals in connectors for effecting solderless conductive termination of the wires therein, with positioning control of the wires during prepositioning beside the connector and subsequent...     

The present invention relates to a wire cone assembly for use on high speed magazine or reel-fed crimping machines. More particularly the invention comprises an elongated cone support arm with a mounting bracket on one end and a three quarter wire cone funnel pivotably mounted on the other end.

A wire terminating tool is provided which simultaneously effects termination of a plurality of wires in a variety of connectors. The tool employs a nest adapted to receive connectors of a plurality of different constructions and to so position each connector that wire-receiving channels therein are in...     

Apparatus is disclosed for terminating insulation covered conductors in the individual contacts of a multiple contact connector. The apparatus includes a base or connector-holding jig and an insertion tool. The base includes means for holding the connector in conductor mounting position; stationary and...     

A termination apparatus for electrical connectors, which includes an improved apparatus for applying operating forces from an apparatus operator to rotatable insertion arms, is provided for use in inserting a plurality of insulated conductors into respective insulation piercing contact portions of an...     

A connector harness assembly machine which includes a wire preparation assembly for cutting and stripping a reel of wire to provide a plurality of unterminated cut and stripped wire leads of various lengths. The cut and stripped wire lead is then transported by means of a wire transport assembly to a...     

A method and apparatus for semiautomatic wiring of telephone cabinets is disclosed which is suitable for twisted pairs of telephone wires. A pair-indexing head having a plurality of dual threaded spinning index rotors is used to permit automatic mass-termination of the individual wires in slotted-beam...     

Apparatus is disclosed for forming electrical splices from a continuous supply band. The apparatus includes feeding means for feeding a preselected length of the supply band to a forming station; clinching means positioned beneath the forming station; forming means for forming said preselected length...     

A die for crimping an electrical terminal onto a wire lead. This includes a base with a terminal support structure for supporting and feeding a strip of terminals to a crimp station overlying an anvil. Punch means are provided over the anvil adapted to move in contact with a terminal at the crimp station...     

A cable connector crimping apparatus is disclosed for use in combination with a standard vise or the like including means for positioning the apparatus on the front surface of one of the jaws of the vise, stop means for preventing the closure of the vise beyond a certain point so as to protect the connector...     

A harness assembly apparatus is disclosed for sequentially applying, at the appropriate locations, multi-contact connectors to multi-conductor cable and, in a reverse operation, applying covers to the thus terminated connectors. The apparatus includes means for assuring proper alignment of the cable...     

A hand-operated tool (50) for assembling stackable elements (52, 53 and 54) of a multicontact electrical connector (51) and for assembling conductors (56 and 57) to the connector includes a head (125) which is automatically positioned for effectively applying forces to the connector at each step of its...     

Apparatus for installing connectors on the ends of cables comprises first and second reciprocable rams which are coupled to each other by compressible coupling means. Connector deforming tools are mounted on the first ram which inwardly deform portions of the connector thereby to clamp the connector...     

A contact crimping machine for use with a pin having a wire receiving seat includes a chamber, a plurality of crimping dies and actuating means for activating the crimping dies. Means are provided selectively to move one of the pins through the chamber into communication with the crimping dies, and restraining...     

A tool for simultaneously inserting each of a plurality of wires in respective non-deforming insulation piercing terminals disposed in a terminal retaining body. The terminal retaining body is supported in the tool so that each terminal is aligned with a guide slot through which the wires are forced...     

An apparatus for simultaneously terminating a plurality of insulated conductors in the insulation piercing contacts of a multiple contact electrical connector is disclosed. The apparatus includes means for mounting a connector in conductor receiving position, means for aligning the conductors adjacent...     

A crimping head for use in tools for crimping removable crimp style electrical socket contacts is disclosed. The head includes a tail crimper affixed to a frame for shaping the contact's tail section into a probe hook. A tail anvil, slidably mounted on the frame and engagable against the tail crimper,...     

A wire insertion guide may be used with a wide variety of closed barrel electrical contacts. The wire insertion guide includes a housing, a movable funnel located within the housing, a fixed funnel nested within the movable funnel, and a contact holder mounted in spaced relation with the movable funnel....     

Apparatus is disclosed which includes a carriage having mounted thereon tooling for trimming wires and inserting trimmed wires into electrical contacts successively along an electrical connector mounted on an anvil. A stepping motor drive transports and repeatedly stops the carriage and the tooling successively...     

A cable harness assembly fixture having a crimping station and an elongate base plate movable with respect to the crimping station. A pair of spaced, parallel, locator support rails on the base plate are movable transversely of the base plate to vary the spacing between them and may be retained at selected...     

An apparatus for simultaneous location and termination of a plurality of stripped conductors in a connector is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a body having a connector orienting cavity, a conductor comb for aligning the stripped conductor, a conductor wiper assembly disposed parallel to said cavity...     

In electrical terminal crimping apparatus comprising two crimping dies so mounted that one die is constrained to move towards and away from the other die, a wheel having circumferentially spaced, outwardly extending vanes is rotatably mounted with respect to the dies and a pawl, operatively connected...     

The disclosure relates to apparatus for installing a clamp portion of an electrical connector to a multiconductor communication cable. The apparatus is used in conjunction with apparatus for trimming, and connecting, wires to electrical terminals of the connector.

A cutter-presser for making connections to an electric cable connector of the type used in splicing telephone cable. A cutter-presser for receiving an index strip, seating conductors in the index strip and cutting the conductors, mounting a connector module on the index strip, seating conductors in the...     

An apparatus for terminating a plurality of conductors to a connector includes an elongated frame having a connector holding fixture at one end and a carriage mounted for sliding movement toward the fixture for effecting termination of the connector. Movement of the carriage is effected by a beam having...     

Apparatus for deploying pre-split wires of a multi-conductor cable into a predetermined coplanar array comprises a guide plate with a recess therein and a lid which closes thereagainst. Side by side wires are pushed into a wire receiving opening of the recess and are gathered into a strait therein and...     

An apparatus for simultaneously terminating a plurality of insulated conductors in the insulation piercing contacts of a multiple contact electrical connector is disclosed. The apparatus includes means for mounting a connector in conductor receiving position, means for aligning the conductors adjacent...     

Apparatus for automatically stripping and terminating wires in a continuous manner includes a wheel on which a plurality of insulated wires are located which is mounted for intermittent rotation in a stepwise manner for feeding the wires successively to spaced operating stations, namely to a stripping...     

An apparatus is disclosed for terminating multi-conductor cable. A plurality of terminals are preloaded partially into a housing leaving their crimped terminating portions extending therefrom in such a position as they can be readily crimped connected to a cable. This allows for the terminals to be gang...     

Apparatus comprises a plug holder having a passage therein profiled to axially receive a plug body with a metal sleeve preassembled thereto. Neck dies slideably mounted in the holder move radially inward to shear sleeve and crimp it into a circumferential recess in the plug body and a nose die slideably...     

A pair of feeder bowls are placed one above the other to simultaneously feed two different types of wire contacts onto two different tracks, and into separate alignment openings in a guide block. A pivotally mounted crimper is selectively moved to position the crimper head over the selected alignment...     

The present invention relates to a tool for use in inserting wires into an elongated connector cap and trimming the protruding ends. The tool includes a hinged head onto which the cap is removably placed and a base member having a ram driven wire inserter bracketed by wire guides. Wires are laced into...     

An apparatus for programming conductors in a flat ribbon cable into two parallel planes and terminating the conductors in a two-sided connector is disclosed. The apparatus while manually operated is adaptable to semi-automatic operation.

An apparatus for feeding articles to a work station, for example for feeding electrical terminals to a work station between the co-operating dies of a crimping machine, has a first shaft driven by a main shaft coupled through a clutch to a motor and a second shaft is arranged to be driven by the first...     

Apparatus for fabricating a multi-wire harness assembly are disclosed. The harness consists of wires which are first terminated en masse on one level, then loaded en masse into a connector block on a conveyor at a lower level. Wires are then fed to diverse lengths, cut and stripped, and the trailing...     

An apparatus adapted to join an insulated cable having an electrically conductive wire therein and a connector, having a cover and a body, the body having an electrically conductive element capable of piercing the insulation of the cable and being in electrical communication with the wire therein when...     

An applicator tool is disclosed for applying multiple terminal electrical connectors to flat cables, formed by a plurality of closely spaced parallel conductors, in a single application step. The tool is a bench mounted applicator which is adjustable to accommodate preformed multi-conductor flat cables...     

An escapement apparatus of this invention accepts a contiguously arrayed plurality of conductors and dispenses them into a carrier spaced apart on centers to facilitate their assembly to a ribbon connector. The escapement apparatus includes a guideway having a first portion which receives the conductor...     

A novel automatic multiple wire terminal applying machine which is selectively operable to simultaneously attach to one or both of the adjacent or opposite ends of multiple lengths of wire either a single terminal common to all of the wires or an individual terminal on each wire.

An electrical connector and termination tool are disclosed for making crimped, insulation-piercing terminations with insulation covered conductors. The connector includes a dielectric insert, a plurality of electrical contacts mounted in the insert and an access passage for insertion of a termination...     

A combing device for 90 degree axial rotation of a pair of adjacent cable conductors from an original axial orientation. The device comprises a profiled conductor manipulating channel adapted having an upper outwardly flared surface extending the longitudinal length of one sidewall defining the channel....     

A machine for application of two-part electrical connectors to multiconductor flat cables has connector magazines for feeding connector bodies and covers to a pre-application station seriatim, and a connector pusher bar for moving a body and a cover from a pre-application station to an application station,...     

A tool for connecting a cable, particularly a flat cable, to a cable connector, particularly to a flat cable connector or the like. The known termination tools often have relatively complicated adjusting mechanisms for centering the cable connector in relation to the center of the press and for adjusting...     

A tool for applying an elongate connector to a plurality of insulated conductors. The connector includes a base and a cover with the base having a plurality of insulation displacement terminal elements extending toward the cover. The base and cover are joined by interconnection means for holding the...     

Apparatus for applying wire joints, of the type having a crimpable metallic ferrule, to the ends of wires. The apparatus includes a feeder for holding a supply of the joints, a tool for applying the joints to be crimped, and a conveyor interconnecting the feeder and the tool for conveying the joints...     

A first embodiment of an assembly fixture for locating an electrical connector and a cable with respect to each other for assembly includes adjustable connector locating guides mounted on a base plate and adjustable cable guides mounted on a spring-loaded tiltable cable platform spaced above the base...     

A method of crimping contact wires (24) into a holder (26) of a brush contact (24) in which a converging series of indentors (16) each having a Vee-shaped tip (72) are advanced into the holder by a cam sleeve (30) engaging cam surfaces (18) on each indentor, to form valley-shaped crimp recess (78) forcing...     

A tool assembly for use with a prime mover, such as a bench press, for terminating a plurality of insulated conductors in a mass terminator connector. The tool assembly includes a pair of supports, at least one of which is adapted for attachment to the prime mover, for reciprocal movement relative to...     

In interconnecting an electrical wire to a conductive terminal having wire receiving slots therein arranged in intersecting disposition, the wire is indexed to the tool and then to the terminal. The wire is located into the slots, without making connection thereto, by applying a light force transversely...     

A hand held splicing gun for splicing together exposed portions of a number of wires. The gun includes a frame and a trigger actuated valve that routes compressed air to two drive cylinders mounted to the frame. A first cylinder drives a pair of forming bars against a strip of splicing material. Working...     

A tool for automatically assembling electrical terminals with a box insulator comprising a piston-activated jaws assembly for securing a wire in place in a work station so that press-driven tools can crimp the wire to a metal connector, after which a piston-activated slide forces an insulated box over...     

An electrical connector transfer nest for use in transferring an electrical connector from a connector pick-up station to a work station, comprises a frame in which are slidably mounted, a pair of plungers, one of these having means for releasably retaining a connector thereon. The nest is arranged to...     

An apparatus for automatically crimping terminals to electric wires by a cooperation between a pressing punch driven through a press ram and a stationary anvil. The apparatus has a crimp height adjusting mechanism which includes a tapered spacer movable perpendicularly to the press ram, a stopper member...     

Apparatus for crimping electric terminals on electric conductors is disclosed which includes a locator arm operable upon initial actuation of the crimping die to accurately locate the terminal relative to the die before the terminal is engaged with the crimping elements of the die. The apparatus also...     

An insulation covering stripping device for use in combination with automatic apparatus for manufacturing electrical harnesses, the device being included in a moving chuck for pulling out the insulation clad wires to a desired length so that the insulation covering stripping is carried out as the same...     

Apparatus for making electrical harnesses including wires and electrical connectors, the apparatus comprising a wire feed path extending and substantially horizontally and axially of the apparatus; a connector attaching device comprising a cooperating assembling punch and die pair disposed on respective...     

Electrically conductive wires, to be connected to multiple terminal connectors and assembled in a wire harness, are prepared for harness assembly by winding individual wires on a reel, cutting each wire to length with both ends of the wire protruding in aligned but opposite directions from the reel,...     

A terminal strip applicator includes a ram that carries a first die set mounted for reciprocation along a first path within a machine body and a track that automatically adjusts to accept a strip of terminals to limit the terminal strip to a second path which intersects the first path. A terminal feed...     

An improved apparatus for terminating single conductors to an electrical connector having two rows of terminals, one on top of the other. The rows are staggered so that the terminals of one row are located between the terminals of the other row. An improved terminator is used to terminate wires to both...     

Apparatus for assembling a two-part connector with an interposed cable, which apparatus comprises a pair of relatively movable press elements, a storage magazine for containing a plurality of connectors, structure for moving a connector from the magazine to an operative position between the respective...     

A wiring head (10) mounted for movement along coordinates (X, Y and Z) to insert electrical terminal (T) into selected cavities of electrical connector housings (CH), comprises rolls (38) for feeding a wire (W) in a wire feed direction (D) from a wire reel (20), a wire inserter (24) for inserting the...     

An electrical connector assembly machine for loading an insulating housing having a plurality of parallel apertures with a plurality of contacts. It consists of a housing support for supporting the insulating housing; a table having a plurality of parallel channels at equal intervals and in registration...     

A terminal strip applicator includes a ram that carries a first die set mounted for reciprocation along a first path within a machine body and a track that automatically adjusts to accept a strip of terminals to limit the terminal strip to a second path which intersects the first path. A terminal feed...     

An electrical connector applicator comprises a lower holding-member (1) on a base (3) for holding a base member (19) of an electrical connector so that electrical conductors (18) of a cable (17) can be positioned along the base member (19) and an upper holding-member (2) on a block (10) for holding a...     

An improved lead insertion apparatus for randomly inserting crimped wire leads one at a time into a multicircuit connector includes a pair of elongate insertion jaws for longitudinally surrounding and gripping a crimp terminated wire lead. The insertion jaws are actuable by a gripper control between...     

Automatic crimping apparatus for crimping contacts of different sizes on electrical wires is positioned at the side of a conveyor that moves successive wires to and from alignment with a crimping station which includes a shaker bowl furnishing contacts to a sender station. The sender station sends the...     

Cable supporting apparatus for assembly machines for terminating electrical cable with connectors includes a base and cable support means mounted on the base for supporting a length of cable. The support means is movable relative to the base from a cable loading position, in which position the support...     

A wire harness is produced by attaching terminals to one of the respective ends of a plurality of wires and gathering the other ends and attaching a single terminal thereto. The plurality of insulated wires are intermittently fed by respective predetermined lengths along predetermined feed paths, and...     

The assembly comprises a first slide (34) carrying a wire insertion tool (38) and a second slide (80) carrying support tools (92). As the slide (34) descends through a working stroke to cause the wire insertion tool (38) to insert a wire (W) into the wire slot (18) of an electrical terminal (10') of...     

A terminal dereeling apparatus is provided for permitting efficient feeding of terminals into a terminating press. The terminal dereeling apparatus includes a terminal reel mount for permitting the unwinding of a terminal reel with substantially uniform tension throughout the unwinding. A take-up reel...     

Apparatus for stripping the insulation from an end portion of an insulated electrical wire (W), withdrawing an electrical terminal (ET) from a carrier tape (T) therefor and crimping the terminal (ET) to the stripped end portion of the wire (W), comprises a rotary conveyor (18) for advancing the tape...     

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...     

A method of producing a circular cross section electrical connector sub-assembly (94) comprising a tubular wire housing (10) and a contact housing (12). The wire housing (10) is placed in a jig (180) with the aid of a handling tab (100) thereon and is located in a vertical position by means of a levelling...     

A discrete wire discriminator for identifying each terminal position of a connector to be terminated to a multiconductor cable comprising a plurality of identical, unmarked, insulated conductors is described. The conductors of the first end of the cable are randomly terminated. After the second end of...     

A wire press-installing apparatus wherein a ram is lowered onto the joint block to press wires into rows of receiver terminals that are erected at specified pitches on the joint block of a wiring harness. The joint block is intermittently fed by a distance equal to the pitch of the terminal rows and...     

Attachment of each of a pair of wires (12) in a cable (14) to each of a pair of opposed contacts (16) in a connector (20) is carried out by a connector attachment tool (10) which includes a cable clamp assembly (34) for clamping the cable in either a horizontal or vertical orientation. The clamp assembly...     

A wire press-installing apparatus having a ram which is lowered onto the joint block to press wires into rows of receiver terminals that are erected at a specified pitches on the joint block of a wiring harness. The joint block is intermittently fed by a distance equal to the pitch of the terminal rows...     

In the wire press-installing apparatus of this invention, the ram is lowered onto the joint block to press wires into rows of receiver terminals that are erected at specified pitches on the joint block of a wiring harness. The joint block is intermittently fed by a distance equal to the pitch of the...     

An apparatus for preparing an end of a flat electrical cable for connection to electrical contacts of a connector is disclosed. The apparatus includes a clamp (10) having a movable section (12) for clamping the cable, a positioning device (100) for positioning the clamp section (12) in response to a...     

A cable loading machine for connecting a plurality of insulated conductors of a multiconductor cable to terminals of a connector one at a time, which includes a conductor separation unit (D) having a conductor separation assembly (3) with a conductor receptor (6) sufficiently large to receive separated...     

The installation comprises a press (2) having a press ram (22) which is driven by a drive electric motor (26), to drive an applicator ram (47) of an electrical terminal applicator (44). A control circuit arrangement (89) controls the drive motor (26) so that the press ram (22) is brought at least substantially...     

A tool for crimping a connector onto a cable includes a crimping device which is mounted on a forward end of an axially movable piston, and a localizing device for detachably holding a cable and a connector in position for coaction with the crimping device while crimping the connector onto the cable....     

The apparatus comprises wire gripper jaws (2, 4), a crimping die (6), a crimping anvil (7) and an insulation stripping unit (8). An insulated wire (W) is inserted between the jaws (2, 4) in an open position, between the die (6) and the anvil (7) and between stripping blades (14) of the stripping unit...     

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...     

An apparatus and a process are provided for assessing the quality of crimped electrical terminations of a terminal to a wire. The apparatus includes a strain gauge incorporated into a crimp press for measuring the strain generated in the press during each crimping cycle. The strain gauge is operatively...     

A hand tool for inserting wires into insulation displacement contacts contained within a plastic connector housing is disclosed. An alignment member is provided which has a pair of camming surfaces formed on opposite sides thereof. The alignment member is attached to and moves with the insulation crimping...     

A cable connecting machine which includes a base member (1); a first cable retainer (E) provided on said base member for holding a first cable in place; a second cable retainer (F) provided on said base member for holding a second cable on top of said first cable; a pair of cable pressure elements (28,...     

An assembly for wiring a terminating tool (6) having wire combs (34,36) comprises a tool mount (164), a bench stand (166) and a clamp (168). The tool mount (164) has a clevis (178) for receiving one end of the tool (6) and a screw (187) for securing the tool (6) to the clevis (178). There depends from...     

A cable making machine for making and electrically testing a cable assembly is disclosed. The machine includes a test circuit for effecting the electrical tests and probe members for electrically connecting the test circuit to the contacts of the connectors being terminated to the cable. Spring members...