Abstract: Electrical harness manufacturing apparatus comprises wire feeding means for feeding wires along a wire feed path through upstream and downstream (relative to the direction of wire feed) wire guides. The guides have opposed ends which are adjacent to each other during feeding. The guides thereafter move apart so that fed wires are exposed in a gap between the opposed ends. A transferring device clamps the wires in the gap and wire cutting means are provided to cut the wires adjacent to the transferring means, thereby producing leads having their trailing ends gripped in the transferring means. The transferring means transfers the trailing ends laterally of the feed path to a wire connecting station at which the trailing ends are connected to terminals in a connector. Insulation can be stripped, if desired, from the trailing ends of the cut leads and from the leading ends of the wires extending from the feed means.

Abstract: The core is an elongated non-conductive tubular-like member of resilient material. A continuous strip of conductive material is wound about and secured to the core. Portions of the turns of the strip are removed. The resultant flexible electrical connector presents individual arcuate parallel conductive bands.