Abstract: The following specification discloses a parts handling and storage system that can be directed toward the handling and storage of electronic components. The storage portion comprises a movable cabinet on wheels having a plurality of elongated tubular members or channels that receive components or parts along the length thereof. The tubular members or channels are driven on a linked basis parallel to each other by a gear movement and chain drive. In this manner, the channels themselves in their linked relationship form a chain of axially elongated links. Each respective channel or tubular member can be indexed at a given point for exposing the parts therein, so that they can be moved therealong into an adjacent track or channel or other handling means. The storage cabinet and tubular channel members when combined with an extended track can be associated at the end of the track with a second storage cabinet for receiving the parts after they have been processed from the first storage cabinet.

Abstract: A conductive wire is bonded to spaced parts of a semi-conductor device by an ultrasonic bonding wedge that is formed with side-by-side bonding faces of mutually different inclinations. One of the faces makes a forward bond having a lesser deformation at an inner end of the bond. The other of the bond faces is employed to make a rear bond in which a greater deformation is made at an outer end of the bond to facilitate parting of the wire at the second bond. A wire guide movably mounted adjacent the bonding wedge laterally shifts the wire from one bond face to the other.