Abstract: This invention concerns a process for changing electric lines, especially for cutting a line to length and equipping cut line segments with electric connectors especially in an automatic cable finishing machine with lateral transport of the cut line segments with endless belts, where several different lines each unwound from a cable drum are stored on an arc of a circle, so they are parallel to each other with a certain distance apart and they are pivoted together on the arc of the circle for the purpose of changing the lines until a predetermined line is positioned at the culmination point of the arc. This invention also concerns a device for carrying out this process, characterized by a line storage device with support points for lines arranged on an arc extending across the transport direction of a line that is to be cut and arranged so they are spaced a certain distance apart, where the storage device is mounted so it can be pivoted back and forth in the direction of the arc.

Abstract: Centering strips, pluggable onto the contact blades of a wiring backpanel for receiving cable plugs, are provided with fastening disks in the region of openings in the floor of the centering strips through which the contact blades project into the centering strip, the fastening disk likewise including openings for plugging the contact blades therethrough. After the centering strip has been plugged, the fastening disks are located such that their inner edges of their openings cut into the contact blades and their outer edges cut into the floor of the centering strip. A positive fixing between contact blade, fastening disk and centering strip is thereby achieved.

Abstract: In an apparatus for securing parts to an assembly body, a part conveyor means receives a plurality of parts arranged on a lot basis from a part storage. The part conveyor means is moved by the arm of the apparatus for driving parts up to the proximity of the assembly body. Since the arm of the apparatus for securing parts is equipped with a part securing means, the part securing means receives the parts from the part conveyor means individually a plurality of times and secures the parts to the assembly body.

Abstract: A wire length having a very small diameter is terminated to a contact member by forming a groove in the contact member, disposing the wire length entirely within and along the groove, and striking the surface of the contact on both sides of the groove deforming the sides of the groove downwardly and inwardly into the groove firmly against the wire therein. The contact members can be made in lead frames on a carrier strip and have grooves formed therein, the wire can be placed in the grooves and terminated to the contact members in an automated assembly to make, for example, fuse components where wire segments bridge gaps between associated contact sections of pairs of the contact members, and the lead frames can have housings molded thereto while on the carrier strip.

Abstract: An electrical cable assembly comprising a round cable having an end portion provided with an adaptor for terminating the round cable in a flat cable connector. The adaptor has a cylindrical end portion disposed for receiving therein a jacketed end portion of the round cable, an intermediate transitional portion wherein a plurality of conductors extending from the cable end portion are permitted to cross over one another and be formed with an array of juxtaposed conductor end portions, and a rectangular end portion out of which the array of juxtaposed conductor end portions extends. The rectangular end portion is provided with outer dimension and resilient properties similar to an equivalent flat cable for insertion and latching into a flat cable connector where the conductor end portions terminating at respective distances from a mating surface of the adaptor extend into respective grooves and are electrically connected to respective contacts of the connector in a predetermined manner.

Abstract: A repair station located at the insertion head of an electrical component assembly machine, the repair station permitting the testing and placement of components into the sequence of components to be inserted into printed circuit boards.

Abstract: Stripping of the outer jacket of miniaturized coaxial cable is achieved through the use of stripping blades which have surfaces dulled to preclude cutting the cable core or ground conductor and yet sever the cable and metalized film from the cable core. The stripping blades have an offset to eliminate the need to orient the cable relative to the ground wire with the dull surfaces having a radius to substantially deform the cable with the cable then being pulled to effect removal of the outer jacket and metallized film. The length of stripping accommodates axial elongation of the core with excess core subsequently being trimmed, thereby resulting in a desired stripped length.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with a business forms assembly system for medical use, particularly in hospitals, which are capable of being able to record a medical test, for example, a blood test, which assembly comprises a backing sheet with one part of the backing sheet having a transparent sheet secured thereto to provide a bag to contain a medical sample and another part thereof intended to receive information about the medical sample. The system also utilizes a retainer for supporting the bag containing the medical samples.

Abstract: A waveguide helical slow-wave structure is formed of a solid rod of copper machined with a deep, narrow helical groove. A copper sleeve is brazed to the periphery of the resulting helical thread to form a helically spiraling pathway about a solid axially centered and axially extending center portion. The center portion is then partially eroded away to form a slow wave structure having a helical radially-extending portion with an inner helical axially-extending ridge to provide a helical axially-centered gap between adjacent ridges. The slow wave structure contains the microwave energy which follows the spiral path of the structure and produces RF voltage across the gap of adjacent portions of the ridges to thereby form a gapped-wall surrounding an axially-extending hole for gap electric field interaction with the axial electron beam of a traveling wave tube of which the slow wave structure is a part.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of manufacturing a hollow metal light conductor in which at least one metal layer is provided on a core of a synthetic resin material, for example, polymethylmethacrylate, after which the core is removed, and a metal tube is formed. The core is preferably removed by slightly elongating the core so that the cross-section is reduced, after which the metal light conductor can be pulled from the core. The reflecting metal layer on the inside surface of the light conductor preferably is of aluminium. The invention provides a hollow metal light conductor, for example, for use in an optical spectrometer, which is also suitable in particular to be used for light having a short wavelength, to less than 200 nm.

Abstract: Automated insertion of pins (14) into apertures (12) in a backplane (10) is achieved by first shearing a predetermined number of pins from a continuous strip of pins (26). The sheared pins (12) are then engaged in a pin holder (134) which is indexed to locate the pins in registration with the apertures (12) in the backplane (10). The pin holder (134) is displaced towards the backplane (10) to insert the pins (14) into the apertures (12). As the pins are inserted, they are simultaneously engaged by a pair of guide fingers (244) which travel therewith to guide the engaged pins into the apertures without interfering with any previously inserted pins. The guide fingers disengage themselves from the pins once insertion thereof is substantially completed. An apparatus (10) is also described for carrying the above-described steps in sequence.

Abstract: A cover for protecting and supporting a plurality of sheets bound together with a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape and bound to the cover by the tape. The cover has a binding area and a protective coating in that area where the binding tape has an adhesion force of between 200 and 700 grams per 1.27 cm width of tape according to a standard adhesion peel test. The coating may be an actual coating of low adhesion material, a film, a coated plastic film, or the cover material. The cover may include a sheet folded centrally, a truncated cover to afford attachment of a separate cover sheet, or the cover may be formed to cover only the front or back of the documents to be bound thereon.

Abstract: Apparatus for installing connectors onto flat conductor cables. An improved installation station including the apparatus includes magazines for supporting a plurality of connector portions and a transport station to sequentially move the includes magazines for supporting a plurality of connector portions and a transport station to sequentially move the connectors from the magazines to the installation station. The installation station includes a surface for retaining cables in a horizontal plane and a press having an avil and ram for coupling connector portions to the cable and to each other. The installation station also includes means to retain connector portions on the ram during the coupling.

Abstract: A template guide tracking device useful for rapidly performing work functions such as joining together workpieces on a riveting machine. The template device has a tracking guide provided by a continuous groove having work stations provided at multiple intersection points located between adjacent segments of the groove. The groove may have a depth less than the template thickness with work stations being provided by openings extending through the template, or alternatively the groove may extend entirely through the template and have the work stations each provided by an enlarged opening or laterally located notch at the intersection point between adjacent segments of the groove.

Abstract: An improved bandoleer of contact carriers for use in a power crimping tool is provided by assembling a plurality of separate contact carriers. Each contact carrier has a uniform exterior size and shape and is further provided with a male connector radially extending from one side, and the diametrically opposite side of the contact carrier is provided with a female connector radially extending from the contact carrier. The female and male connectors are arranged and configured to resiliently couple to corresponding and appropriate opposite connectors with the adjacent contact carrier in the bandoleer. The male connector is a longitudinal web having a longitudinal bulbous portion. The female connector is a socket connector having a restricted opening smaller than the bulbous portion of the male connector. However, the inherent resiliency of the female socket allows the restricted portion to expand to permit passage of the bulbous portion of the male connector into the female socket.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for inserting components into workpieces, particularly for insertion of electrical components into printed circuit boards. Multiple component magazines are provided on a shuttle which places the desired component beneath an inserter. The inserter moves through a limited reciprocation to pick up a component from the shuttle, and the shuttle is withdrawn from the path of the inserter. The inserter then moves downward to insert the component. The inserter includes an ejector which maintains contact with the inserted component during withdrawal of the inserter. The ejector includes a shock absorber which gives way if unusual resistance is met during insertion. The shock absorber is spring-biased, and the degree of stiffness of the spring is adjustable.

Abstract: A coated wire with a metal core is inserted between two rollers, at least one of which has a plurality of circumferential cutting edges. The rollers are adjusted to firmly grasp the wire. The cutting edges of the first roller are axially staggered relative to the cutting edges of the second roller. The distance between the cutting edges of each roller increases along the length of each roller. The depths of the grooves between the cutting edges of each roller differs at selected sections of each roller relative to other sections in each roller, and the width of the grooves is adapted to be less than the diameter of the wire to be stripped. The rollers are rotated at different speeds and in opposite directions to advance the wire through the rollers, slice the coating or jacket, and remove it from the metal core.

Abstract: A metallic strip and a cable core are advanced together along a passline through conventional apparatus for wrapping the strip around the core to provide a partially formed shield around the cable. The shield and core continue along the passline through apparatus according to the invention for closing the shield around the core. This closing apparatus includes a support roller for supporting the shield and core on the passline, shield engaging members resiliently urged against the shield to hold flanking regions of the shield against the core as the shield is closed, and edge region guide means for urging edge regions of the shield in overlapping relationship onto the core. The edge region guide means are radially adjustable relative to the passline to accommodate different cable diameters.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an ink jet apparatus of the type having a plurality of variable volume chambers arranged in an array, each of the chambers adaptive to receive ink from a reservoir and including an orifice for ejecting droplets of ink-on-demand, is facilitated by utilizing a ganged array of transducer feet which are inserted into the chambers, joined to the respective transducer and unganged by lapping off an interconnecting web flushed with the forward face of the image head.

Abstract: A sabot arrangement is produced in accordance with an improved manufacturing method. The sabot arrangement includes a rotational symmetrical sabot body having a central axial bore and radial separating grooves or slots. The radial grooves or slots divide the sabot body into a plurality of equal segments. These slots nearly sever the sabot body into separate segments, so that a material bridge remains near a forward edge and a material bridge remains near a rear edge of the sabot body, which material bridges function as fracture zones.