HIGH SPEED SEMIAUTOMATIC TERMINATION OF COAXIAL CABLE
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A METHOD AND APPARATUS IS DISCLOSED FOR AUTOMATIC AND RAPID TERMINATION OF COAXIAL CONNECTORS TO COAXIAL CABLE. EACH OF A SERIES OF COAXIAL CONNECTORS ARE JOINED TOGETHER BY A CARRIER STRIP FORMED OF THE SHEET METAL FROM WHICH THE OUTER CONTACT PORTION OF EACH CONNECTOR IS MADE. EACH CONNECTOR INCLUDES AN INNER CONTACT MEMBER HAVING A REAR FERRULE PORTION POSITIONED BY A DIELECTRIC INSERT WITHIN THE OUTER CONTACT PORTION. THE OUTER CONTACT PORTION INCLUDES ACCESS PORTS LEADING TO THE INNER CONTACT FERRULE PORTION TO PERMIT THE INSERTION OF CRIMPING DIES THEREIN TO CRIMP THE FERRULE PORTION TO THE INNER CONDUCTOR OF A COAXIAL CABLE. THE CRIMP PORTS OF EACH CONNECTOR ARE PRECISELY POSITIONED BY THE CARRIER STRIP FOR MACHINE FEEDING IN A CRIMPING APPARATUS. SUCH APPARATUS INCLUDES A FIRST SET OF INDENTER DIES DRIVEN AUTOMATICALLY TO ENTER THE CRIMP PORTS OF A GIVEN CONNECTOR AND GRIP BUT NOT CRIMP THE FERRULE PORTION THEREIN WHILE THE CONNECTOR IS SERVED FROM THE CARRIER STRIP. THE SEVERED CONNECTOR IS HELD BY THE INDENTER DIES IN A PROPER POSITION FOR CABLE ATTACHMENT. AT A SEPARATE STRIPPING APPARATUS, A CRIMPING FERRULE IS AUTOMATICALLY POSITIONED RELATIVE TO A CABLE STRIPPING APERTURE SO AS TO BE LOADED ONTO SUCH CABLE AS THE CABLE IS INSERTED FOR STRIPPING. THE CABLE STRIPPING APPARATUS THEN OPERATES TO STRIP PORTIONS OF THE CABLE EXPOSING THE CABLE INNER CONDUCTOR AND THE CABLE OUTER CONDUCTOR FOR TERMINATION TO A CONNECTOR. THE STRIPPING STATION ALSO AT THIS TIME SEPARATES THE OUTER CONDUCTOR OF THE CABLE FROM THE DIELECTRIC SHEATH OF THE CABLE TO FACILITATE INSERTION OF THE CABLE OUTER CONDUCTOR OVER A REAR PORTION OF THE CONDUCTOR. THE STRIPPED AND SEPARATE CABLE HAVING A FERRULE LOADED THEREON IS MANUALLY INSERTED INTO AND OVER THE GRIPPED CONNECTOR HELD IN A PROPER POSITION BY INDENTER DIES. THE FERRULE IS THEN DISPLACED FORWARDLY TO OVERLIE THE CABLE OUTER CONDUCTOR AND A REAR PORTION OF THE CONNECTOR AND THE INDENTER DIES AND ADDITIONAL DIES ARE DRIVEN TO CRIMP THE CONNECTOR TO TERMINATE INNER AND OUTER CONDUCTIVE PORTIONS THEREOF TO INNER AND OUTER CONDUCTIVE PORTIONS OF THE CABLE.
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