Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic trimming apparatus (1) for wire coils (2) including a plurality of wire loops (3). The apparatus comprises a base frame (4), a rotational member (6) rotatably connected to the base frame (4), a support unit for supporting the wire loop when the rotational member (6) is rotated, a sensor assembly arranged for detecting the end of the wire and a distance sensor for sensing a distance travelled along the wire when the rotational member is rotated. The trimming apparatus is adapted to rotate the rotational member is in a first direction until the end of the wire is detected, rotate the rotational member in an opposite direction when the end of the wire has been detected, determine the distance travelled along the wire, and generate a cutting command based on the distance travelled along the wire from the end of the wire and a predetermined cutting distance.

Abstract: A system for manufacturing a string of pocketed coil springs comprising: a coil-forming subsystem that produces two coil springs; a spring transporter subsystem that receives the two coil springs at a first position and conveys the two coil springs to a second position; a spring compressor subsystem that compresses the two coil springs; a fabric-folding subsystem that receives a piece of fabric and folds the fabric to create an open side; a spring inserter subsystem that receives the two compressed coil springs and inserts the two compressed coil springs between top and bottom surfaces of a folded piece of fabric; two welder subsystems that form first and second welds between top and bottom surfaces of the folded piece of fabric, the first welds and the second welds forming a plurality of pockets in the fabric, each of the plurality of pockets comprising a compressed coil spring.

Abstract: A gauge cutting system and method are described herein. The gauge cutting system includes a cutting apparatus coupled to a track for cutting a wire and a movable measurement apparatus spaced from the cutting apparatus and coupled to the track. The measurement apparatus for measuring a length of wire extending from the cutting apparatus by looping said wire around said measurement apparatus and returning a cut end of the wire to the cutting apparatus, wherein a distance of the measurement apparatus from the cutting apparatus is proportional to the length of wire to be cut.

Abstract: Machines and methods for removing screens from cable, wherein screen surrounds at least one electrical or optical conductor (22). The screen may be a braided screen (21) from a cable (19) including at least one conductor (22), screen (21), and outer insulation (20). After baring screen (21) by removing outer insulation (20), a section is deformed and/or unbraided, and then the deformed section of the screen (21) is cut off. The step of deforming and/or unbraiding is accomplished by lifting-off the screen (21) from the inner conductor (22) on at least one end of the section of the screen (21) to be removed, at least over a part of the circumference of the cable. This step additionally includes or may be followed by pressing the parts of the screen (21), that have been lifted off onto an erection surface (28) before cutting them off, whereby preferably the parts of the screen (21) that have been lifted off are bent backwards in the direction of the yet undeformed screen (21).

Abstract: A pressure lock system passes a wire along a wire path from a wire source at a high pressure first region to a destination at a low pressure second region. The pressure lock system includes a pressure lock chamber. A first conduit has an interior positioned to pass the wire along the path and is mounted for rotation. A second conduit has an interior positioned to pass the wire from the pressure lock chamber and is also mounted for rotation. A motor may drive rotation of the first conduit and the second conduit. Pumps may maintain a pressure of the pressure lock chamber lower than a pressure of the first region.

Abstract: A system and a method for feeding wire material to a rotary compaction press are provided. In some embodiments the method includes the steps of feeding a wire strand of material to a location adjacent a cutting surface; moving the cutting surface, thereby causing the cutting surface to cut the wire strand of material into a wire pellet of material; and transporting the wire pellet of material to adjacent a die table of a rotary compaction press. In some embodiments the system includes a wire exit aperture. A cutting disc may be provided adjacent the wire exit aperture and may have a plurality of wire cutting surfaces and adjacent wire notches. The cutting disc may be rotatable, thereby causing the wire cutting surfaces to sequentially pass over the wire exit aperture.

Abstract: A straightening and cutting-off machine for the production of straightened elements of predeterminable length from a wire-shaped material, in particular for the production of straightened bars from reinforced-concrete steel wire, has a feed device for drawing in material from a material stock, a preferably rotating straightening device for straightening the material conveyed into a working range of the straightening device by the feed device, a cutting device, following the straightening device, for separating a portion of predeterminable length from the straightened material to produce the straightened element, a length measurement system for measuring the length of the material and for generating a measurement signal representing the length, and a control device for activating the cutting device on the basis of the measurement signal.

Abstract: An electric wire sizing-cutting apparatus including an electric wire delivery apparatus, which is easily handled and can smoothly supply the electric wire without generating a kink, is provided. The electric wire delivery apparatus includes: a transfer means transferring an electric wire, which is delivered from an electric wire reel, along a longitudinal direction of the electric wire; a correcting means arranged between the electric wire reel and the transfer means and correcting a bending habit of the electric wire by allowing the electric wire to pass through between a plurality of rollers arranged zigzag; and a rotation controlling means arranged on an upstream-side of the correcting means and putting the electric wire between a pair of rollers biased in a direction approaching each other.

Abstract: A wire mesh mat for Gabion baskets for securing slopes has longitudinal wires and transverse wires connected to one another and having wire ends, respectively. At least some of the wire ends have an eye, respectively. The wire ends provided with the eye have a compensation section configured to compensate expansions and compressions occurring in a longitudinal direction of the wires. The compensation section has two legs and the eye is positioned between the two legs of the compensation section.

Abstract: A wire straightening and cut-off process and machine which feeds, straightens, and cuts wire, and which uses a servomotor in dual mode. In a continuous mode, short wire parts are cut at a high cut-off rate. In an intermittent mode, long wire parts are cut wherein each cut is triggered by a signal.

Abstract: The apparatus has an indexable carriage adapted to move the coil springs and the border wire along a path. A wire cutter disposed adjacent the path has an inner member with an axial hole adapted to receive the wire and a tubular outer member receiving the inner member and movable relative to the inner member. The outer member has a cutting edge. An actuator is operatively connected to one of the inner and outer members to provide a relative rotation between the inner and outer members. That relative rotation results in the wire being sheared by the cutting edge to provide a length of wire. A wire wrapping mechanism disposed adjacent the path receives the length of wire and wraps the length of wire around an end turn of a coil spring and a border wire.

Abstract: A device and a method for cutting a continuously travelling wire which emerges in the form of windings from a winding layer, wherein a cutting device arranged immediately following the winding layer. The cutting device includes a catching device for the targeted grasping of a winding arch and a device for cutting this winding arch. A device for controlling the sequence of movement of the catching and cutting devices are provided. The control takes place, for example, in dependence on the wire properties, such as, the wire diameter in the case of dimensional inaccuracies. In addition, the catching and cutting devices can be controlled in dependence on the position of operation of the winding layer.

Abstract: A wire collection apparatus for use with a wire cutting machine. The apparatus comprises a tubular wire channel, a rotating tubular channel closure, and an actuator device. The wire channel contains an axial opening along the entire length of the channel. The channel contains a proximal opened end for receiving a portion of wire from the cutting machine and a distal opened end for allowing the leading terminus of the wire portion to extend therethrough, if necessary. The channel closure is positioned inside of and is substantially concentric with the wire channel. The closure contains an axial opening along the entire length of the closure and contains opened ends in alignment with the proximal and distal ends, respectively, of the wire channel. The closure is rotatable inside the channel between opened and closed positions to open and close the axial opening of the channel, respectively.

Abstract: A release assembly for wire cutting apparatus. The present invention provides a release assembly for wire cutting apparatus which allows for dynamic alteration of the cut parameters. The release assembly allows for the length of the wire to be cut to be altered, allows for the biasing force to be increased or decreased to thereby reset the release assembly for a wide range of wire gauges, and allows for the stroke length to be altered to thereby either increase or decrease the cut frequency. The release assembly includes a housing having a distal end, a proximal end and a longitudinal chamber. A plunger tube is slidably disposed in the longitudinal chamber and is biased towards the proximal end by a dynamically adjustable spring mechanism. A gauge rod is mounted within the plunger tube at an adjustable axial position. In operation, the wire being pulled from the coil engages the gauge rod and pushes the gauge rod and plunger tube in the distal direction.

Abstract: The leading end portion of an elongated length of wire is cut off from the remaining length of wire each time the wire dwells after being advanced along a generally horizontal path. The cutting is effected by moving a cutter downwardly into cutting engagement with the wire and by immediately thereafter moving a wiper downwardly into engagement with the leading end portion of wire to push that portion downwardly and, if necessary, to cause shearing of any uncut diameter of the wire. The cutter and the wiper are actuated by a single, double-acting eccentric which serves to positively advance and positively retract both the cutter and the wiper. The cutter is carried by an arm which is actuated directly by the eccentric while the wiper is carried by a pivoted link connected to the arm. The eccentric, the arm and the link coact to cause the wiper to overtake the cutter as the cutter approaches the bottom of its cutting stroke.

Abstract: A wire feeding and cutoff machine in which the feed mechanism continuously advances wire along a path past a wire cutoff arm and into an elongated wire guide having a stationary guide member and a movable closure member. The cutoff arm is pivotally mounted on a cutoff arm axis and is driven by a crank connected to the output shaft of a one-revolution clutch. The crank drives the cutoff arm and moves a cutter downwardly from an initial position and then back to clear the wire path during a first half of the crank revolution. A drive mechanism for the movable closure member is connected to the cutoff and moves movable closure to an open position in response to movement of the cutoff arm in a cutting stroke and to a closed position during movement of the cutoff arm in the return. The drive mechanism also operates an ejector pin for ejecting a wire from the wire guide when the movable closure member is opened.

Abstract: The wire changing method of the present invention reduces wasteful wires generated whenever wires are changed. When the number of cutting of the wires 28A being produced in a processing device 11 becomes as follows:T=Q-{INT(R/L)+1}wherein Q is the number of wires to be produced, R is the passline length, L is the length of one wire to be produced and INT is the conversion code to integer, the operations of the processing device 11 is temporarily stopped. And the wire 28A is cut at the distance X from the entrance B of the passline, said distance X being represented by the equation:X=L-{R-INT(R/L).times.L},so as to splice it to the wire of type 28B to be employed next. Thus, the wires remaining in the passline can be utilized effectively and the necessary amount is added as the length of wire to be added, thereby reducing wasteful wires generated at the time of the wire change.

Abstract: In a device for intermittent straightening of wire there are independent drives for wire feed and the straightening rotor. The speed of rotation (v.sub.2) of the straightening rotor varies essentially synchronously to the feed rate (v.sub.1) of the wire. To cut the wire (t.sub.4) the wire and rotor are stopped. According to the invention the direction of rotation of the rotor is reversed between successive working cycles.

Abstract: A spring manufacturing apparatus for reducing the time from the beginning to the completion of the manufacturing of a spring having a flat end surface and for manufacturing a large amount of springs at a high-speed. Feed rollers 3a and 3b supply wire material 1 to point tools 4a and 4b. When a single spring is formed, laser output portion 7 is moved in an X direction by the spring pitch length and laser irradiation to the wire material 1 is started. At the same time, feed rollers 3a and 3b feed the wire material for one coil of spring to be manufactured.

Abstract: A device for straightening a rigid wire delivered in coil form for supplying a metal-working machine is compact and easy to control. The wire is stationary in an axial conduit of a rotor supported on a carriage (B) which is moved axially by means of a first hydraulic jack (13). The rotor carries the wire by stationary guides and a central guide which is moved radially (C) between a centered position and an excentric position by means of a second hydraulic jack (62) while the rotor rotates and the carriage advances. The hydraulic fluid collected at the output (71) of the first jack is transmitted directly to an input (66 or 67) of the second jack (62) so as to actuate it at a speed proportional to that of the first.

Abstract: A multiplicity of cooled steel products, after having been severed from an as-rolled steel, divided into sectional bars and delivered to and accumulated on a cooling hearth, are taken from the cooling hearth, and delivered to a multi-bar straightening machine. There, simultaneously with straightening, a predetermined distance from the leading ends of the bars is measured simultaneously, the forward movement of the bars is interrupted after they have advanced by said measured distance, and said forward portions are cut.

Abstract: A straightening apparatus for metallic bars, rods, wires, tubes and the like is provided which includes a rotor which is adapted for being rotated about a longitudinal axis thereof. At least three rollers are mounted to the rotor body and are clearly rotatable about their respective axis. A bar which is to be straightened passes along the axis of the rotor. The rollers are alternately disposed on either side of the rotor axis so as to sequentially engage the bar to be straightened. The rollers are mounted so as to be pivotal so that the plane of each roller can be pivoted with respect to a plane passing through the axis of the rotor. When the rotor is rotated, the bar to be straightened is urged along the axis of the rotor due to friction between the surface of the rollers and the surface of the bar. At the same time, the rollers straighten the bar.

Abstract: A method and installation for feeding longitudinal elements of round or flat material to a welding machine (41) for grates or gratings, in which method the longitudinal elements (L), cut off from at least one line of longitudinal-element material after straightening of the same, are arranged in a group with selectable spacing, without longitudinal displacement, in the direction transverse to a push-in line (S) to the welding machine (41), are secured in place by a, for example magnetic, holding force and are moved essentially continuously into the push-in line, and in which arrangement the front ends of the longitudinal elements are mutually aligned before delivery of the longitudinal elements to the welding machine.

Abstract: A lead straightening and trimming apparatus for the leads of electrical components such as stators. The apparatus includes a pallet having positioning posts which position the stators on the pallet and also position coils within the stator. The apparatus also includes a rotating helical pick-up tool which is movable between a retracted position and an extended position adjacent to a component supporting pallet having lead retaining posts. The pick-up tool operates to capture the free ends of leads extending from posts provided by the pallets. Upon retraction, the pick-up tool moves the associated free ends of the leads to a partially straightened gripping position. The apparatus also includes a combined gripper straightening and cutting apparatus which grips the associated lead adjacent to the pallet post with a force insufficient to cut the lead. Retraction of the gripper straightens the portion of the lead extending from the retaining post of the pallet.

Abstract: A stacker for a flexible strand, such as a flimsy wire, comprises:(a) a conveyor having an elongated endwise traveling stretch onto which the strand is fed to be carried endwise on the stretch,(b) a gripper to grip a trailing portion of the strand as forward extent of the strand is carried endwise on the stretch,(c) structure to effect displacement of the gripper to a position locating the gripped portion of the strand sufficiently out of alignment with the stretch that the strand is progressively pulled sidewardly off the stretch in response to endwise travel of the stretch relative to the strand.Pins may travel with the conveyor to displace the strand off the stretch; and the strand in wire form may be cut and stripped, as it is fed toward the conveyor and gripper. A collector collects strands that are displaced off the conveyor.

Abstract: A flexible strand stacker comprises:(a) a conveyor having an elongated endwise traveling stretch onto which the strand is fed to be carried endwise on the stretch,(b) a gripper to grip a trailing portion of the strand as forward extent of the strand is carried endwise on the stretch,(c) structure to effect displacement of the gripper to a position locating the gripped portion of the strand sufficiently out of alignment with the stretch that the strand is progressively pulled sidewardly off the stretch in response to endwise travel of the stretch relative to the strand,(d) and a holder such as a roller is provided to temporarily and locally hold the trailing portion of the strand to the traveling conveyor means stretch to travel therewith; the holder then releases the wire strand and the gripper initially grips the trailing portion of the strand.

Abstract: The tool holder of a machine for cutting a supply of insulated electrical conductor into discrete lengths employs a standard cutting blade. The standard blade serves as the outer boundary of the tool holder and of the remainder of the machine, thereby assuring that the cut lengths can pass to the next processing station without striking any component and thereby become disoriented. Use of the standard cutting blades is accomplished by employing conventional fasteners to retain the blade on the tool holder. The cutting blade is located in the tool holder by a slotted member and blade shank end locator.

Abstract: A method for producing baling wires having enlarged tips for tying bundled items such as reinforcing rods and bags in which enlargements are formed by melting the tips of the wire segments wherein a strip of continuous wire is advanced through a first melting zone in a substantially vertical position, the wire is then heated to its melting point to sever a segment of the wire therefrom causing an enlargement to be formed at the leading tip of the subsequent wire segment, successively heating, melting and severing individual wire segments and causing the formation of the enlargements at the leading edge of the next subsequent wire segment as the strip of wire advances through the first melting zone, successively rotating each individual wire segment at least substantially 180.degree.

Abstract: A system for accepting conventional wire in bulk form, cutting the wire into predetermined lengths and preparing the ends of the wire for use in conventional wire harnesses is disclosed. More specifically, the system accepts as input data, in digital form, which fully describes each wire to be formed. Individual wires having the required length are cut from wire provided in bulk form. As each section of wire is measured and cut, it is stored in individual containers and the ends of each section is secured by a clamp. A transport system sequentially transports the stored wires to workstations where conventional wire preparation tasks such as stripping, marking and attachment of terminals are performed. After all wire preparation functions have been performed, the individual wires are removed from their containers and utilized in forming wire harnesses.

Abstract: A motor driven apparatus to efficiently and reliably straighten the leads of a pin grid array (PGA) so that the leads are aligned parallel with one another and perpendicular to the flat PGA body. The apparatus includes a nest of parallel knife blades which is mounted for linear travel so as to be either introduced to or retracted from the grid of PGA leads. The nest of knife blades is carried by an oscillator assembly which is adapted to automatically oscillate (i.e. pivot) the blades between respective rows of PGA leads. When the nest of knife blades is introduced to the grid of PGA leads, the back-and-forth oscillations of the knife blades will cause the blades to engage and straighten any bent leads. The PGA is carried by a rotatable table assembly. When the nest of knife blades is retracted from the grid of PGA leads, the table assembly may be automatically rotated (e.g.

Abstract: An apparatus for aligning electrical components with aligned connecting wires to form a belt between two adhesive tapes, the apparatus including a compact working member provided with a guidance and alignment arrangement for the second adhesive tape, (a) pressing device and a cutting device for cutting the connecting wires of the components. A pressing roll of the pressing device is rotatable, but rigidly mounted. Axially parallel grooves are provided in a circumferential surface of the roller, with the grooves being aligned with tooth gaps of the conveying gear wheels, thereby ensuring a better wrapping around of the connecting wires.

Abstract: Apparatus for straightening and severing coiled wire or rod stock has several sets of guides each of which receives stock from a different reel and each of which can be moved into and from register with rollers serving to advance the selected stock into one of several straightening devices. A synchronizing unit ensures that the placing of a selected straightening device into a portion of the path along which the stock advances toward and into the range of a severing device downstream of the straightening station invariably entails a movement of the corresponding set of guides into a preceding portion of such path. Each source can contain stock having a different diameter and the severing device moves with the advancing stock in the course of each severing operation.

Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus and method of setting up apparatus for the automatic cutting and/or shaping of IC components carried in a tubular carrier and advanced for processing by gravity. A base plate is disposed at an angle of approximately forty degrees to the horizontal and provides a supporting means for gravitational feeding of these components from a removable U-shaped retainer to a guide and then to a die station. At this die station a resiliently tired feed wheel engages the body of the IC component which is metered and advanced with an intermittent motion. This motion is provided in a timed relationship with two rotating shafts which have pins moved in a precise orbit around a shaft centerline. These pins are one-hundred-eighty degrees out-of-phase with each other. The rotated feed wheel and attached tire are intermittently moved in a strict timed relationship to the movement of the two shafts by a one-way clutch driven by one of the shafts and by an eccentrically moved Pitman arm.

Abstract: A leading end portion (33) of a supply of cordage (31) is clamped to a mandrel (32) such that it is straight, after which a plurality of convolutions of the cordage are wound on the mandrel. The cordage is severed from the supply and a trailing end portion (34) of the wound cordage is clamped to the mandrel in a manner which causes it to be straight and hence suitable for termination with a modular plug (37). The coiled cordage is heated and cooled and is then removed from the mandrel while simultaneously the direction of the helices is reversed. Then the cordage is severed at a predetermined location to produce two retractile cords, for example, one including the leading end portion of the length of wound cordage and a newly formed straight trailing portion. The second cord includes a newly formed straight leading end portion and the initial trailing end portion. The newly formed end portion of each cord is caused to be held in a straight configuration and annealed to cause it to retain that configuration.

Abstract: A concrete and wire placement mechanism mounted for bodily movement relative to a form is provided with a tube for conveying concrete to the form and includes driven elements supported by the tube operative to feed, cut and to throw off discrete cut lengths of reinforcing wire on the order of at least 10 inches in length for embedment in axially aligned and ordered arrays in layers of concrete deposited in the form as the mechanism moves relative to the form. In one embodiment for making utility poles the concrete form is a hollow, elongated substantially-cylindrical member which is axially movable to and fro and which is rotated about its axis during axial movement thereof.

Abstract: A method for making reinforced concrete including the steps of laying down layers of concrete and contemporaneously automatically cutting, and bodily ejecting into the contemporaneously layed down layers of concrete oriented wire lengths in any desired aligned patterns. In one embodiment the concrete layers are injected into a rotating cylindrical form and the oriented wires are cyclically bodily thrown off at selected angular intervals for embedment in axially aligned annular arrays in the concrete layers.

Abstract: Improvements have been devised in wire straightening and cutting apparatus to the end of protecting the external coating on the wire as it is advanced, straightened and then cut to a predetermined length and are specifically directed to the novel arrangement of feed rollers upstream of a bending spindle to positively force the wire through the bending spindle, demagnetizer and cutter section in such a way as not to damage the external surface of the wire or remove any coating on the wire. A cutting mechanism is correlated with the driving of the feed rollers to cut the wire, once straightened, into predetermined lengths; also, the length of wire cut can be varied simply by varying the speed of the cutter relative to the speed of advancement of the wire.

Abstract: A process for fabricating wire wafers from wire stock wherein the wire stock is fed against a wire stop member, surrounded by a support member having wire cut-off and back-up tools located integral to the support member with the wire cut-off and back-up tools activated to provide first and second wire wafers and de-activated to return the wire cut-off and back-up tools to a position for a succeeding cycle.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a grooved drum carrying an insulating strip, to which is secured a plurality of turns of an insulated wire wound helically on the drum. Inside the drum is mounted a longitudinal shaft which carries a series of spaced-apart cutting blades, and means are provided for moving the shaft by increments longitudinally to position the cutting blades behind different groups of wires. At each position, the knife assembly is rotated and the blades cut a group of spaced-apart wires which are joined together to provide a plurality of groups of wires.

Abstract: A long-sized wire transfer apparatus for use with a wire cutting machine or the like including a wire feed mechanism and a cutter blade assembly which opens and closes to cut into predetermined lengths a wire intermittently fed in by the wire feed mechanism. The wire transfer apparatus comprises a wire clamping transfer conveyor laterally extending from the downstream side of the cutter blade assembly in a direction at the right angles to the wire withdrawing line, a wire drift conveyor composed of an endless belt extending laterally from the initial end of the transfer conveyor through a slide plate of suitable length along the wire withdrawing line, and a wire collecting device or the like disposed immediately below the terminal end of the wire clamping transfer conveyor.

Abstract: Apparatus for successively receiving and transporting long cut lengths of wire from a wire cutting mechanism and stacking the cut lengths in a receiver, a pair of long looped belts being supported with confronting surface faces coacting to form a longitudinally moving V-trough having an inlet and coupled with the wire delivery end of the cutting mechanism. One of the belts is supported on a fixed frame structure, and the other belt is supported upon a pivoted frame structure, a power actuator being selectively energizable to swing the pivoted frame structure in a direction to separate the converging belts and form an elongate discharge opening along the bottom of the trough through which the delivered cut wire length in the trough may be discharged by gravity into a receiver, and thereafter swing the pivoted frame in an opposite direction to close the discharge opening.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for straightening and cutting a used wire bale tie having one fastening end removed includes means for feeding, straightening and cutting the bale tie. The improvement in the apparatus involves providing an engaging means for the engagement of the bale tie fastening end to limit the feeding of the bale tie into the straightening means. The engagement of the bale tie fastening end with the engaging means activates the cutting means to cut the bale tie to a predetermined length. Means for withdrawing the bale tie from the straightening means is activated by an activation means associated with the cutting of the bale tie. The invention also includes a method of straightening wire bale ties having one fastening end removed.

Abstract: Apparatus for high-speed production of sets of accurately and identically sized insulated wire leads having wire terminals at the lead ends comprises: a feed mechanism including counter-reciprocating wire feed clamps for simultaneously drawing a plurality of separate strands of insulated wire from a plurality of wire reels; a mechanism for simultaneously straightening and arranging the strands drawn therethrough in parallel spaced apart relationship in a common generally horizontal plane; a severing mechanism for simultaneously severing sets of wire segments of predetermined length from the strands; conveyor clamps for releasably gripping and conveying sets of wire segments; and conveyor means for advancing the conveyor clamps and sets of wire segments therein through processing mechanisms and to a collecting station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for semiautomatic wiring of telephone cabinets is disclosed which is suitable for twisted pairs of telephone wires. A pair-indexing head having a plurality of dual threaded spinning index rotors is used to permit automatic mass-termination of the individual wires in slotted-beam connectors. By pulling the connector block and attached wires down the length of the electrical cabinet, indexing the tip and ring conductors at the desired length, providing clamps at both ends of the twisted pairs, and cutting the wires, an operator is able to take the wires, one pair at a time, with proper tip and ring orientation, and terminate them on the back wiring plane of the electrical cabinet. The connector is then dressed through a wiring channel to exit at one end of the wiring cabinet and provide an easy means for connecting the cabinet to external wiring.

Abstract: The device disclosed involves an integration of a plurality of elements which automatically unreel rigid or semi-rigid coaxial cable; straightening the cable; feed a predetermined length into a cutting and scoring machine which serves to cut the end of a previously scored piece of coaxial cable and simultaneously scores the next advancing piece. Adjustable features are included to take into account the varying diameters of the coaxial cable, the length of the piece desired to be cut and scored, and the depth of the scoring. As each piece is cut from the continuous supply of coaxial cable, having been previously scored, that piece is forced, by the advancement of the next piece, into an output hopper.

Abstract: The present apparatus provides for the automatic shaping and/or cutting of the leads of integrated circuit components which are intermittently advanced to and through a straightening and cutting portion of the apparatus. A base plate is disposed at an angle of approximately 40.degree. to the horizontal and provides a base for the gravitational feeding of integrated circuit components carried in plastic guides both before and after trimming. The untrimmed components are fed by gravity to a metering station whereat a rubber roller is intermittently rotated so that each component is brought in way of a pair of opposed processing blades. These blades are simultaneously advanced by eccentric means which are moved in strict timed relationship to the movement of the component in way of the processing blades. As cutoff blades they cooperate with a center guide die to provide the desired shearing action. Both blades and die may be sharpened several times without losing the desired registration.