Art of producing electrical conductors from cord wire

• US 3,283,398 A
• Filed: 04/26/1962
• Issued: 11/08/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Karl H. Andren
• Original Assignee: Karl H. Andren
• Inventors: Andren, Karl H.
• Application Number:
  US04/190,402
• Time in Patent Office: 1,657 Days
• US Class Current: 29/863
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/052 with wire-feeding mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/16 for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49185 of terminal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/5102 Binding or covering and cutting

Claims

1. THE METHOD OF PRODUCING SUCCESSIVE LENGTHS OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS FROM CONTINUOUS INSULATED WIRE STOCK, WHICH COMPRISES, ADVANCING THE WIRE LONGITUDINALLY PREDETERMINED DISTANCES BEYOND A SEVERING ZONE TO PROVIDE A SUCCESSIVE WIRE LENGTHS, REVERSING ONE END OF EACH SUCCESSIVE WIRE LENGTH TO LOOP THE SAME AND BRING THE OPPOSITE ENDS THEREOF INTO PREDETERMINED LATERALLY-SPACED JUXTA-POSITION WITH SAID ENDS POINTED IN A COMMON DIRECTION, FIRMLY GRIPPING EACH SUCCESSIVE LENGTH OF LOOPED WIRE INWARDLY OF EACH END THEREOF AT SAID PREDETERMINED POSITIONS TO MAINTAIN THE PROTRUDING ENDS IN LATERALLY-SPACED JUXTA-POSITION AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL RELATION WITH THE LOOP FREELY SUSPENDED, INTERMITTENTLY MOVING THE LENGTHS OF LOOPED WIRE SUCCESSIVELY AWAY FROM THE SEVERING ZONE IN A RECTILINEAR PATH AND ALONG A COMMON PLANE EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF THE WIRE AXES AT THE GRIPPED PORTIONS THEREOF, APPLYING A TERMINAL TO AT LEAST ONE JUXTA-POSITIONED END OF EACH SUCCESSIVE LOOPED WIRE LENGTH WHILE AT REST TO COMPLETE THE CONDUCTORS, AND CONTINUING THE MOVEMENT OF THE COMPLETED CONDUCTORS SUCCESSIVELY ALONG THE SAME PLANE AND IN THE SAME RECTILINEAR PATH AWAY FROM THE TERMINAL ATTACHING ZONE TO A DISCHARGE STATION REMOTE FROM SAID SEVERING ZONE.