AUTOMATIC LEAD MAKING AND WIRING MACHINE

• US 3,766,624 A
• Filed: 08/13/1969
• Issued: 10/23/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Earl Raymond Kreinberg, Robert Karl Grebe
• Original Assignee: Earl Raymond Kreinberg, Robert Karl Grebe
• Inventors: Grebe, Robert Karl, Kreinberg, Earl Raymond
• Primary Examiner(s): Custer, Jr., Granville Y.
• Application Number:
  US04/849,707
• Time in Patent Office: 1,532 Days
• Field of Search: 29/23R,23C,23D,23DT,23DTS,23MH,23MW,23S,630
• US Class Current: 29/564.8
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/052 with wire-feeding mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/5145 to sever product to length
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53017 Web or strand-carried information supply

Abstract

The disclosure relates to an automatic lead making and wiring machine wherein a controlled device is utilized to select wire of predetermined size or color and feeds same into the machine wherein the wire is cut to a predetermined length. A wire is then sequentially fed to a plurality of operating units wherein the wire is stripped on one or both ends thereof, the amount of stripping being variable and depending upon the number of stripper units available. The wire is then automatically fed to a plurality of presses wherein terminals can be placed on one or both ends at the point of stripping, the control device further being capable of preselecting any one of a plurality of terminals to place on either or both ends of the stripped wire. The wire can then be marked if desired and the wires can then be positioned into a panel board or the like at predetermined terminal locations thereof. The result would be a completely wired panel board with wires therein having terminals thereon and being of predetermined wire size and predetermined wire color. As an alternative, the stripped and terminated wires need merely be placed on a conveyor or other such device at the termination of the operation.

Claims

1. Apparatus for producing articles serially, said articles being manufactured from one of a plurality of starting blanks and being fundamentally similar and superficially dissimlar, said apparatus comprising:

a. a conveyor for said articles, b. a loading station for loading said articles onto said conveyer, loading means at said loading station for selecting a blank and loading the selected blank onto said conveyor, c. primary controller means for said loading means effective to select said blank, d. a plurality of working stations beside said conveyer, working means at said working stations for working a blank carried by said conveyer, e. a plurality of secondary controller means, each of said secondary controller means being effective to control one of said working means, f. a source of intelligence comprising a plurality of information blocks, each block defining the fundamental and superficial characteristics of one article, g. primary reading means for reading each of said blocks, h. means coupling said primary reading means and said primary controller means whereby information in one bundle concerning the blank for the defined article in said one bundle is transmitted to said primary controller means and the appropriate blank for said defined article is loaded onto said conveyer, i. information storing means for storing the remaining information of said block for said defined article, j. a plurality of secondary reading means, each of said secondary reading means being coupled to one of said secondary controller means, k. means for presenting said remaining information of said one bundle retained in said storing means to each of said secondary reading means in synchronism with arrival of said one blank at each of said working stations whereby, said one blank is operated on by selected ones of said working means as said blank is carried by said conveyor.

2. Apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein said blanks are wires and further including means responsive to said source of intelligence for selecting a predetermined wire and cutting said wire to predetermined length.