Abstract: The apparatus comprises two carriages 4, 5, movable in opposite directions F1, F2, and operable in an operating station S below a substrate 100. The carriages comprise corresponding bushes 23, 24, movable perpendicularly relative to the substrate 100, and within which slide needles 47, 48. Bushes 23, 24 are positioned in contact with the printed circuit, and co-axially with respect to two holes 100a chosen in the latter to allow the needles to pass through the aforesaid holes. Above substrate 100, device 150 centers the needles relative to the projecting leads 10, on component 11, which are held between clamping mechanism 2 stationary in station S.

Abstract: The device comprises a bank 40 of bending stations 40a positioned side by side and fitted with fixed benders 23 and moving benders 90.Each station 40a is responsible for bending at least one lead 50a of an electrical/or electronic component 50 inserted in it in such a way that the leads 50a of the component 50 are subsequently orientated in the same direction spaced at a pre-established pitch P.The device includes means for positioning the selected bending station 40a in a first station S1 in which first means 70 feeds a pre-established component 50 to the selected bending station 40a, units for handling the moving benders 90, units for rotating the bank 40 so as to position the selected bending station 40a opposite a second station S2, and finally units for moving the bank towards the said second station S2 to enable second means 75, intermittently passing through the latter station, to hook the leads 50a, orientated as mentioned above, of the component 50.