Abstract: Terminal applicator for crimping closed barrel terminals in strip form onto wires has a reciprocable ram, crimping dies on the ram, an anvil for supporting the terminal during crimping, and strip feeding and severing means for feeding terminals to the crimping zone. The anvil is normally in a retracted position and the strip is fed to position the leading terminal of the strip on the housing when the anvil is in its retracted position. Thereafter, the leading terminal is severed from the strip and the anvil is moved to an extended position in which it is at the crimping site. During such movement, a wire held at the crimping site is located in the terminal and upon movement of the dies towards the anvil, the terminal is crimped onto the wire.

Abstract: Apparatus for crimping terminals onto the ends of wires comprises a loading station at which the wires are serially loaded into a groove in a rotating drum. During rotation of the drum, the wires are moved laterally to a wire feeding station at which each wire is fed axially by the rotating drum, in cooperation with a pressure roller, to a crimping station at which a terminal is crimped onto the wire.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for closing and bonding initially open clam-shell housings about articles such as electrical terminals or the like. The housings are initially in strip form, a plurality of the initially open clam-shell housings being interconnected to each other by hinge members which extend outwardly from either the ends or the sides of opposed housing parts. A leading housing of the strip is initially disposed at an assembly station and an article is conveyed laterally into the housing. Subsequently the housing is partially closed by engaging one of the housing parts of a clam-shell housing adjacent the leading housing and moving it towards its opposed housing part to cause corresponding movement of the housing parts of the leading clam-shell housing.