Abstract: An apparatus for simultaneously cutting wire segments having acutely angled ends from a plurality of wires including guide apparatus and feeding apparatus for the wires, and a cutting device comprising a base, reciprocable shear plate and clamp plate, each of which has parallel grooves therein, with each also having sliding surfaces that are at an acute angle to the axis of the grooves. A collection plate is also provided to contain cut segments and transfer the segments to a common collection point.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 27, 1980
Date of Patent:
January 12, 1982
Assignee:
The Bendix Corporation
Inventors:
Jan C. Mitrzyk, Sr., Rodney W. Gossoo, Charles P. Fischer, Howard N. Silvernail, Charles Null