Abstract: The apparatus for infeeding a cable in a predetermined infeed direction to an automatic cable processing machine enables moving standard cables and cables of reduced wall thickness at high velocities between the drive surfaces of two revolvingly contacting or confronting drive belts of two belt drives. By separating a drive roller synchronously driven with respect to the two belt drives from the measurement drive roller of a cable length measurement device it is possible to vary the diameter and thus the peripheral velocity of such drive roller. Consequently, there can be continuously applied to the cable a tension between the belt drives and the drive roller in accordance with the direction of movement of the cable. This cable tension prevents dam-up of the cable at this region of the cable infeeding apparatus, precludes any possible lateral departure of the cable from the belt drives and affords an exact length measurement of cable sections of the cable.

Abstract: With the apparatus there can be cut an electrical cable in a minimum amount of time and the cable can have selectively different electrical insulation lengths stripped therefrom, without requiring exchange of the cutting and insulation stripping tool upon switching over to a different insulation stripping length and/or to a different cable cross-section. For this purpose, two respective insulation stripping blades are arranged at a predetermined fixed distance from a cutting blade in each of two cutter holders. The insulation stripping blades are shorter in length in relation to the length of the cutting blades by an amount such that during a first part of a work or working cycle only the cable is cut.

Abstract: The apparatus for transporting cable sections enables transporting the cable sections cyclically or intermittently along a cable section processing line by means of double grippers which grasp opposite ends of an associated cable section. These double grippers are arranged at a substantially uniform spacing from one another at the outer periphery of a transport element. The double grippers are rotationally mounted perpendicular to the direction of movement of the transport element and perpendicular to the lengthwise axis of the grasped opposite ends of the cable sections. At least at two locations of the transport element there are stationarily arranged gripper actuators for opening each closed double gripper which has been closed under the action of the force of an associated spring, once in order to receive an infed cable section, and once to release the finished-processed cable section.

Abstract: With this device for an automatic mounting of connector shells (5) and electric conductors, in each case, a connector shell (5) is mounted, with the aid of an industrial robot (1), onto both contact parts (8.1, 8.2) of an electrical conductor at the end of a cable-processing line. Each end of the electric conductors is gripped by the first double gripper (11) of an additional transfer module (40) and, in a mounting position (32), is transferred to a stationary gripper (20). Before this transfer, if the electric conductor is gripped by the first double gripper (11) alone, then the conductor shells are mounted onto the contact parts and the mounting force is tested. After the stationary gripper (20) takes over the electric conductor, the first double gripper carries out a reverse cycle motion into a transfer position (30) in order to grip a new electric conductor.

Abstract: The method and the apparatus for the performance of the method for feeding cable into an automatic cable-processing machine allows to move normal cables (18) and cables of reduced wall thickness at high speeds. The cable (18) is driven by the driving surfaces (3.1, 8.1) of two belts, (3, 8), where the belts (3. 8) of two belt drives (b 1.2), roll off one another. The first belt drive (1) is stationary, while the second belt drive (2) is arranged to be parallel displaceable and disposed perpendicular to its driving surface (8.1). The second belt drive (2) can be pressed onto a laid-in cable (18) by at least one pneumatic piston-cylinder unit (24). In order to assure a clean passage of a cable (18) through the belt drives (1, 2), a cable clamping and tightening device (19) is arranged on the cable feed side (16), and a cable-clamping device (20) is arranged on the cable exit side (17). Thereby, the laid-in cable (18 ) is tightened and precisely aligned before the start of operations. The driving surface (8.