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Armature winding apparatus with improved armature loading and unloading mechanism

  • US 4,006,862 A
  • Filed: 12/20/1974
  • Issued: 02/08/1977
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for successively winding armatures each having an armature core and a commutator mounted on an armature shaft, comprising a set of opposing chucks positioned at an armature winding station and having means for gripping the core of each armature, means including a rotatable flyer for winding wire coils on said armature core at said winding station, a turret having a plurality of angularly disposed armature shaft gripping members, means supporting said turret for rotary indexing on a generally horizontal axis in a step-by-step manner, each of said shaft gripping members having means for releasably gripping an end portion of each armature shaft with the armature projecting in a cantilever manner outwardly from said gripping member, means for moving said turret for successively transferring each said gripping member and the corresponding armature from an armature receiving station to a circumferentially spaced armature unloading station through said armature winding station, means for successively supplying unwound armatures and their corresponding shafts to said shaft gripping members at said receiving staton, and means for successively removing the armature shafts of wound armatures from sad gripping members at said unloading station.

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