Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing electrical harnesses, wherein a required number of wires are fed in an equally spaced state to a cutting and wire-to-connector assemblying section at which the wires are cut and separated into two wire groups. At the wire-to connector assemblying section the connectors are affixed to each of the abutting terminals of the wire groups in a single punch and die action. An advancing wire group, which has a connector at the other terminal affixed in a previous process, is released as a finished harness from the apparatus.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating a plurality of electrical harnesses is disclosed. Each electrical harness includes at least one connector defined by a housing with insulation displacement type contacts loaded therein. The apparatus sequentially feeds sets of connectors to a first station wherein each set includes a plurality of housings joined together by integral, severable connecting tabs. Each set of connectors is then moved to a second station and wires are inserted into the aligned contacts. Additional functions such as drawing lengths of the wires, forming loops of differing magnitudes in the wires and removing insulation from the wires may also be performed by the apparatus. At the completion of the desired functions, the apparatus is actuated to remove the connecting tabs from between the housings thereby forming a plurality of individual harnesses. The individual harnesses are then ejected.

Abstract: Termination tooling adapted for use with a prime mover, such as a bench press, for terminating a flat cable in a connector of the type having an insulative base and cover with the base carrying a plurality of insulation displacement terminal elements extending toward the cover. The tooling includes a termination die and holding means for positioning the connector with respect to the termination die. The prime mover is connected to cause the die and the holding means to undergo reciprocal movement relative to one another. The tooling also includes stop means disposed adjacent one side of a connector positioned in the holding means for engaging the leading end of a flat cable. Cable movement means is provided for moving the leading end of the cable a predetermined distance away from the stop toward the connector prior to termination of the connector.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for assembling connectors to a flat or ribbon-type cable. The apparatus employs rams supporting respective cover members and connector bodies arranged at opposing sides of a cable. The rams are driven toward each other to assemble the connector body to the cover member with the cable sandwiched therebetween. An extraction member is utilized to support the assembled connector as the rams are withdrawn.

Abstract: A tool for applying an elongate connector to a plurality of insulated conductors. The connector includes a base and a cover with the base having a plurality of insulation displacement terminal elements extending toward the cover. The base and cover are joined by interconnection means for holding the connector in an insertion position for receiving the conductors. The base and cover are movable from the insertion position to a connector termination position in which the elements engage the conductors. The tool includes a die for moving the connector to its termination position, holding means for positioning the connector with respect to the die and prime mover means connected to cause the die and a component of the holding means to undergo reciprocal movement relative to one another. The holding means includes stop means positioned to engage the connector when it is in its insertion position.

Abstract: A tool for connecting a cable, particularly a flat cable, to a cable connector, particularly to a flat cable connector or the like. The known termination tools often have relatively complicated adjusting mechanisms for centering the cable connector in relation to the center of the press and for adjusting the working height for the various types of connectors. Finally, with the known tools, there is no possibility of visually monitoring the alignment of the cable conductors with the terminals during the mounting process. The present tool permits a cable connector, regardless of its total length or the number of contacts, to be automatically positioned precisely under the center of the press die by the action of pairs of symmetrically positioned ribs having sloping engagement surfaces. The tool also permits the vertical positioning of cable connectors of different total structural heights by simply reversing the orientation of the connector support.

Abstract: A cyclical machine forming tool utilizes positionally justified form knives so that, nominally, a selected 80 out of 120 total stripped wire ends of flat ribbon cable may be selectively simultaneously formed, for bent, into a contour such as is useful for soldered attachement to printed circuit cards. Positional justification of wire-forming hammer elements called form knives, nominally 41 in number, across a variable distance, nominally 1.676.+-.0.009 inches, is expediently repetitively accurately accomplished by wedging them apart with interspersed counterposed knife elements, nominally 40 in number, called adjuster knives.

Abstract: Wire insertion apparatus for inserting wires in a flat cable into cavities of an electrical connector comprises a connector jig and a wire locating jig adjacent to the connector jig. The wire locating jig comprises a stack of side-by-side cable spreading and wire locating fingers. The cable, having its wires on closely spaced centers, is located adjacent to the connector and the stack of fingers is moved relatively towards the cable. The free ends of the fingers move relatively between the wires of the cable and spread the wires until they are in alignment with the cavities in the connector. Thereafter, the wires can be pushed into the cavities and inserted into slots in the terminals in the connector.

Abstract: Energizing a solenoid causes mechanical means to close a pair of jaws and crimp a cable in a U-shaped cable clamp mounted to a multi-contact connector positioned for termination in an electrically powered termination tool. A movable carriage carries termination means and controls activation of switch means for energizing the solenoid during a portion of its travel. The mechanical means comprise either a link block and toggle levers or bell cranks and push bars. Hold-down means are provided for temporarily holding the cable in the clamp prior to closure.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a wire harness, the invention comprises several steps. The connectors are positioned at desired locations at a first station. Then wires in lengths dictated by the dimensions of the finished harness are run between predetermined terminal element locations at the connectors. The various wires are fixed in the respective holding means associated with the predetermined terminal element locations so that prior to electrical termination of the wires, the partially completed harness can be moved to a station remote from the first station with the wires maintained relative to the entrances of their corresponding wire-receiving slots.

Abstract: A splicing head for positioning multiple wire pairs of a cable for connection to an electrical connector is provided with a removably mounted comb to facilitate the addition of a second cable to a connector with a connected first cable. The splicing head has a bed for receiving a modular electrical connector with its sattached cable. The comb is then mounted by vertical supports on a backside of the splicing head. The comb has multiple wire guides. A second cable is placed adjacent the comb and its wire pairs are separated and placed in the wire guides. The ends of the wires of the second cable are then attached to proper contacts on the modular connector mounted on the bed which already carry the corresponding wire pairs of the first cable. The comb is then removed to allow removal of a connected unit consisting of the modular connector, the pre-connected first cable, and the newly connected second cable.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for manufacturing harness assemblies comprising two connectors having wires extending between the connectors. The two connectors are positioned adjacent to each other in an insertion zone with the wire receiving portions of terminals in the connectors in alignment. The wires are located in two spaced-apart planes in alignment with the terminals and the wires are moved towards the connectors and into the wire receiving portions of the terminals. Thereafter, the one connector with the wires attached is removed and the other connector is moved through and beyond the insertion zone and wires are pulled from reels and located in the insertion zone in the spaced-apart planes. The cycle is then repeated in placing two additional connectors in the insertion zone between the two planes of wires. A specific apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus that withdraws a predetermined length of electrical wire from a supply, cuts the predetermined length and places an electrical connector on at least one end of the length of wire is disclosed. The apparatus includes a movably mounted guide that positions wire from a supply of wire to a work location; a cutter for cutting a predetermined length of wire as the wire is supported by a gripper device; a movable carriage that holds a connector and brings the connector into position for attachment to the wire, and at the same time the movable guide is displaced away from the path of the movable carriage to permit the carriage to bring the connector into position for attachment to a wire as it is supported by the gripper device; and a releasing mechanism for separating a cut and predetermined length of wire from the gripping device.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for terminating insulated conductors in insulation-piercing contacts mounted in a connector body utilizing independently movable carriage and conductor retention means operating between separated loading and termination stations.

Abstract: A machine for application of two-part electrical connectors to multiconductor flat cables has connector magazines for feeding connector bodies and covers to a pre-application station seriatim, and a connector pusher bar for moving a body and a cover from a pre-application station to an application station, one connector part above and one below a flat cable path through the application station. The upper connector part is supported and guided between a pair of plates, one of which has its lower edge inclined toward the opposing plate to provide support for the connector part between the plates, and the plates are resiliently movable apart to permit a platen to push the upper connector part past the inclined support edge and to press it into engagement with the flat cable and the other connector part to complete the application.

Abstract: Apparatus for connecting the ends of stator windings to stator supply terminals comprises a stator holding device which holds a wound stator with each winding end held by a holding element and an insertion and clamping device which is displaceable toward the stator holding device and which comprises a tong-like gripper for each winding end which is swivelable toward and away and laterally with respect to the stator holding device under variable tension. The grippers engage the winding ends and displace them into the respective supply terminals, whereupon the terminals are clamped by a clamping device.

Abstract: A new tool for assembling stackable elements with multiple conductors is disclosed. The new tool consists of a connector holding bracket 101 for retaining the elements and conductors, a T-bar assembly 120 for applying forces to cut conductors and press stackable elements together, and a support assembly 105 which includes a hydraulic system which positions the T-bar assembly 120.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an electrical harness. The harness generally includes at least one connector having a housing with insulation displacement type contacts loaded therein. Each contact is connected to an insulation clad multi-wire ribbon cable.

Abstract: A combing device for 90 degree axial rotation of a pair of adjacent cable conductors from an original axial orientation. The device comprises a profiled conductor manipulating channel adapted having an upper outwardly flared surface extending the longitudinal length of one sidewall defining the channel. A tapered cut is formed into the flared surface from one end of the channel, and is of decreasing depth therealong, terminating at a point on the flared sidewall surface. Upon simultaneously addressing two parallel and adjacent conductors into the channel at a suitable angle thereto, and drawing the conductors toward the opposite end of the channel while decreasing the angle therebetween, one conductor freely enters the channel, and the other conductor, after having been momentarily deterred by engagement against the tapered cut, rolls into the channel atop the first conductor.

Abstract: A multiplicity of integrated circuit connector contact sockets mounted to a plurality of carrier strips are moved between pairs of orientation rollers with tails of the contacts protruding upwardly whereby an upper socket portion of one contact is aligned with an upper socket portion of a contact on a carrier strip in an adjacent row. A plurality of integrated circuit connector insulators having socket receiving apertures formed therein are held together in an array and placed over the contact tails with one tail being received within each aperture of an insulator. The carrier strips are simultaneously advanced beneath a work station wherein a tool presses the insulators downwardly to tightly fit the contact socket portions into the receiving apertures in the insulators. A shearing tool then severs the insulators in the array from one another except for the continued affixation of the contact sockets to the parallel carrier strips.

Abstract: Apparatus for terminating ribbon cable to a two row connector having insulation displacing terminals facing opposite sides comprises a conductor programming station on a carriage, a connector positioning carriage, and a terminating station. The conductor programming station has combs which deflect individual conductors from the plane of the cable into channels in a pair of spaced apart templates which realign the conductors. The connector positioning carriage is slideable on a pair of rails to position a connector between the templates, and the two carriages are moved as a unit to the terminating station where the connector is positioned between a pair of insertion rams, which have tooling which passes through slots in the templates to terminate the conductors.

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: Apparatus and method for fabricating a multi-wire harness assembly are disclosed. The harness consists of wires which are first terminated en masse on one level, then loaded en masse into a connector block on a conveyor at a lower level. Wires are then fed to diverse lengths, cut and stripped, and the trailing ends are transported on a conveyorized clamp which parallels the connector block clamp. The apparatus utilizes a shuttle having telescoping wire guide tubes which are directed by a pivotable track first to an operating zone for termination. The shuttle has a clamping mechanism so that the terminated leads are drawn into the expanding tubes as the shuttle retreats. The track then pivots to the level of the connector, the shuttle moves against the connector block to load the terminated leads, and the clamp is released as the shuttle retreats from the block over the wires.

Abstract: A novel automatic multiple wire terminal applying machine which is selectively operable to simultaneously attach to one or both of the adjacent or opposite ends of multiple lengths of wire either a single terminal common to all of the wires or an individual terminal on each wire.

Abstract: An escapement apparatus of this invention accepts a contiguously arrayed plurality of conductors and dispenses them into a carrier spaced apart on centers to facilitate their assembly to a ribbon connector. The escapement apparatus includes a guideway having a first portion which receives the conductor array and which is inclined at an angle to the horizontal. The array is received in the first portion of the guideway and a second, more steeply inclined portion and is biased toward an exit. The exit communicates with a passageway along which is moved a toothed carrier. The carrier includes a plurality of nests having a spacing which corresponds to that of the connector. As the carrier is moved at a velocity which is controlled relative to forces applied to the conductor array in the guideway, the nests are aligned seriatim with the exit to facilitate the movement of a conductor into each nest.

Abstract: An applicator tool is disclosed for applying multiple terminal electrical connectors to flat cables, formed by a plurality of closely spaced parallel conductors, in a single application step. The tool is a bench mounted applicator which is adjustable to accommodate preformed multi-conductor flat cables of conventional dimensions and which also will allow sequential application of connectors to form a daisy chain cable. The applicator tool includes means to positively clamp the multi-conductor flat cable so as to be properly and accurately aligned with the tooling assembly, which applies the connector to the cable, and to ensure that the cable will stay in place during the application step. The tooling assembly is adaptable to accommodate a wide range of terminal configurations and connector sizes. While the actuation means for the tool has been shown as being manual, it likewise can be powered by any known means, such as a fluid drive.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrical interconnection assembly such as an automobile harness junction box, comprises laying a wire in a groove in a substrate; cutting the wire in the groove into a plurality of pieces; and then transferring the pieces of wire from the groove on to terminals carried by an insulating support to form the assembly.

Abstract: An apparatus adapted to join an insulated cable having an electrically conductive wire therein and a connector, having a cover and a body, the body having an electrically conductive element capable of piercing the insulation of the cable and being in electrical communication with the wire therein when the cable is joined to the connector, the cover and the body being capable of being secured together in such a manner as to hold the ribbon cable therebetween, the apparatus comprising, in combination:a loading die adapted to receive and to hold in spaced relation the cover, the body, and the cable, the loading die having positioning element associated therewith, the positioning element adapted to restrict the movement of the cover and the body in the loading die;a compression die associated with the loading die and capable of being moved relative to the loading die, and coming into pressure engagement with the body and the cover; andpressure applying component associated with the loading die and the compression

Abstract: A tool for assembling a plurality of conductors into secured engagement with a mandrel of a multicontact electrical connector includes a plurality of spaced combs which are positioned adjacent a nest to hold the conductors transversely above a mandrel which is supported in the nest. In each cycle of operation, a head of the tool is prepositioned with respect to the nest and moved into engagement with the conductors to cause a forming die of the head to partially form the conductors about the mandrel and cooperate with a blade adjacent the nest to sever excess lengths of free end portions of the conductors. The head is repositioned with respect to the next so that when the head is again moved, in a second step of the cycle, forces are applied which are sufficient to form the conductors completely about the mandrel with each conductor being pressed into secured engagement with an associated recess on each side of the mandrel.

Abstract: Apparatus for fabricating a multi-wire harness assembly are disclosed. The harness consists of wires which are first terminated en masse on one level, then loaded en masse into a connector block on a conveyor at a lower level. Wires are then fed to diverse lengths, cut and stripped, and the trailing ends are transported on a conveyorized clamp which parallels the connector block clamp. The apparatus utilizes a shuttle having telescoping wire guide tubes which are directed by a pivotable track first to an operating zone for termination. The shuttle has a clamping mechanism so that the terminated leads are drawn into the expanding tubes as the shuttle retreats. The track then pivots to the level of the connector, the shuttle moves against the connector block to load the terminated leads, and the clamp is released as the shuttle retreats from the block over the wires.

Abstract: Apparatus for connecting individual wires to contact terminals contained in an insulating connector housing has a first wire insertion zone in which there is located a connector locator. The individual wires are fed from reels to the wire insertion zone and the ends of the wires are inserted into the terminals by individual inserters. The connector is thereafter moved away from the insertion zone and wire is withdrawn from the spools or reels. During movement of the connector, the wires are cut to produce a harness assembly. The apparatus also has a second insertion zone and a second connector locator therein. The apparatus can be operated in a mode such that a second connector is applied to the harness wires after the first connector has been moved away from the first insertion zone.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an electrical harness. The harness generally includes at least one connector having a housing with insulation displacement type contacts loaded therein. Each contact is connected to an insulation clad wire, said wires being of different lengths with different segments of insulation removed from the wire ends opposite the connector.

Abstract: A wire holding head (13) reciprocable between a wire supply and a wire terminating station (11) includes a wire guide (62) pivoted on the front of a wire clamp (61) and an abutment (20) carried by a wire insertion ram (14) which moves the guide towards a connector support (15) to align leading ends of wires with contacts in a connector (17). The connector supports (15) are mounted on indexed turrets (19) and wire locating combs (51) are engageable with the wires between a severing and stripping station (12) and the terminating station (11).

Abstract: Method and apparatus for cutting and stripping a plurality of wires, applying terminals to the ends of the wires, and inserting wires en masse into the cavities in a connector housing. A shuttle having telescoping tubes which contain the wires therein is attached to carriage which travels on a rail and delivers wires axially at a first fixed spacing on a linear path to an operating zone, insertion station, and strip and shear station. Tubing collapses to extrude wire into operating zone where wires are compensated by deflecting laterally of their axes various amounts such that subsequent rolling into a template will restore the wire ends to a straight array so they can be terminated to a strip of terminals at a second fixed spacing. Tubes expand to draw terminated wires therein as shuttle retreats, then connector housing is delivered onto linear path and shuttle advances to insert terminated wires therein.

Abstract: An apparatus for programming conductors in a flat ribbon cable into two parallel planes and terminating the conductors in a two-sided connector is disclosed. The apparatus while manually operated is adaptable to semi-automatic operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool for use in inserting wires into an elongated connector cap and trimming the protruding ends. The tool includes a hinged head onto which the cap is removably placed and a base member having a ram driven wire inserter bracketed by wire guides. Wires are laced into slots in the guides and across side plates on the wire inserter. The cap bearing head is pivoted around to bring the cap into position between the wire guides and directly above the wire inserter. The ram drives the wire inserter up along both sides of the cap so that ribs on the side plates can force the wires into grooves on the cap. A shear blade simultaneously trims the wires on one side of the cap.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for pre-assembling a connector housing, which is pre-loaded with a plurality of terminals, with a respective connector cover and subsequently applying the pre-assembled connector to terminate a multi-conductor flat cable. The pre-loaded connector housings and the covers are separately fed to the apparatus by magazines. Each cover is positioned with respect to a housing and applied thereto with the assembly thereafter being rotated and moved to a termination station where a multi-conductor flat cable is terminated by the connector. The feed arrangement assures that only a single cover and connector will be fed from the respective magazines for each pre-assembly operation thereby obviating the possibility of jamming.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an electrical harness. The harness generally includes at least one connector having a housing with insulation displacement type contacts loaded therein. Each contact is connected to an insulation clad wire, said wires being of different lengths with different segments of insulation removed from the wire ends opposite the connector.

Abstract: Terminating apparatus for flat multi-conductor cable comprises a gravity discharge magazine which dispenses connector having a cover partially assembled to a housing preloaded with terminals at a delivery station. A carriage which reciprocates transversely beneath the magazine transports the connector from the delivery station to a terminating station where the cable is inserted between the cover and housing from the opposite direction. A ram presses the housing against the cover to terminate the cable in the terminals while the carriage holds the connector at the terminating station and a clamp holds the cable in a guide channel which aligns the cable for termination.

Abstract: An apparatus for simultaneously terminating a plurality of insulated conductors in the insulation piercing contacts of a multiple contact electrical connector is disclosed. The apparatus includes means for mounting a connector in conductor receiving position, means for aligning the conductors adjacent individual contacts of the connector, means for positioning the insertion tool adjacent the contacts, the insertion tool being movable in a non-arcuate path substantially perpendicular to the planes defined by the contacts of the connector. The apparatus will accommodate connectors of different transverse dimensions without the necessity of any adjustment and includes uniquely configured conductor aligning means which enhance and facilitate the terminating operations.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an electrical harness. The harness generally includes at least one connector having a housing with insulation displacement type contacts loaded therein. Each contact is connected to an insulation clad wire, said wires being of different lengths with different segments of insulation removed from the wire ends opposite the connector.

Abstract: An apparatus for terminating a plurality of conductors to a connector includes an elongated frame having a connector holding fixture at one end and a carriage mounted for sliding movement toward the fixture for effecting termination of the connector. Movement of the carriage is effected by a beam having a pivotable joint mounted intermediate the carriage and fixture so that movement of the pivotable joint in direction normal to the longitudinal direction of the frame moves the carriage toward and away from the fixture member.

Abstract: Apparatus for deploying pre-split wires of a multi-conductor cable into a predetermined coplanar array comprises a guide plate with a recess therein and a lid which closes thereagainst. Side by side wires are pushed into a wire receiving opening of the recess and are gathered into a strait therein and splayed into channels which align the wires for termination to terminals at insertion stations where the channels open on the end of the plate. An insertion ram pushes the leading ends of the wires downward into the terminals while the guide plate pivots downward against the action of a spring. A wire catch is provided to prevent reverse movement of wires in the channels.

Abstract: A cutter-presser for making connections to an electric cable connector of the type used in splicing telephone cable. A cutter-presser for receiving an index strip, seating conductors in the index strip and cutting the conductors, mounting a connector module on the index strip, seating conductors in the connector module and cutting the conductors, and mounting a cap on the conductor module. A cutter-presser with a T-bar for movement into position on an index strip or connector module or cap and a cam system for moving the T-bar linearly toward the body of the unit with stops for selectively limiting such motion depending upon the component being handled.

Abstract: To organize and electrically terminate both ends of a plurality of wires, an apparatus comprising an array of interconnected, substantially parallel passageways is placed over the wires proximate to the first ends of the wires. The first ends of the wires are electrically terminated, and then the array is slid along the wires toward the second ends thereof for organizing the wires. The second ends of the wires are then electrically terminated.

Abstract: A machine for terminating flat multi-conductor transmission line cable to a connector. The machine includes a wire locator for providing semi-automatic positioning of cable shield wires and signal wires for terminations to a buss bar and connector tails respectively. The machine facilitates a method of mass termination of cable wires to a connector, which includes first stripping the cable to expose shield and signal wires, then positioning the cable wires in the machine for termination of shield and signal wires to the connector. The signal wires are terminated first to terminal tails extending from the connector. This is followed by the reverse bending of the shield wires over the buss bar and termination of the shield wires to the bar. In this fashion, the multiple wires of the cable may be simultaneously positioned, and respective sets of signal and shield wires mass terminated by the machine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool having a hand operated lever operative with one lever stroke to pivot the tool into position on a work station, to insert a multiple conductor cable in between a pair of clamping and gripping jaws of a metal clamp of an electrical connector to which the conductors are to be connected, and to close the jaws onto the cable. Release of the lever retracts the cable insertion mechanism and pivots the tool away from the work station.

Abstract: An improved machine is disclosed for forming cable harnesses by simultaneously terminating all conductors at one or both ends of a cable formed of a plurality of flat conductors embedded within a web of insulating material. The subject machine incorporates a cable positioning and hold down mechanism which both accurately positions the end of the cable to be terminated at a proper location relative to the terminals, which are subsequently gang applied thereto, as well as firmly holds the cable in position during termination. The subject hold down mechanism is adjustable for various widths of cable and the dual terminating machine is adjustable for cables of varying lengths.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying connectors to multiconductor electrical flat cable includes a motorized cable feed mechanism for feeding predetermined lengths of cable past a power actuated cable cutter to a connector applying position. Power operated cable clamps are disposed on opposite sides of the connector applying position and are movable in the cable feeding direction to precisely locate the leading or trailing end of the cable at the connector applying position. Connector body and cover magazines are disposed adjacent to the connector applying position. A movable connector holding member includes spring biased jaws for releasably holding a connector body and cover spaced apart on opposite sides of a cable insertion slot. The connector holding member is moved from a connector loading position to the connector applying position wherein power actuated retractable rams are operable to apply a connector to a predetermined length of cable.

Abstract: A hand tool for assembling two or more articles along an extended plane. Arcuate motion of a movable handle is converted to axial movement of a presser plate to assemble the articles placed on an aligned platen. The movable handle controls a drive bar which is coupled to the tool frame by pivotally movable links which move the drive bar in two orthogonal directions and to the presser plate .[.to move it in two orthogonal directions.]. by means of pivotally movable links coupled to the drive bar. The .[.movements along one orthogonal axis cancel one another and the movements along the other orthogonal axis are cumulative whereby the.]. presser plate is moved only in the direction of the platen.