Wire harness manufacturing apparatus

A wire harness manufacturing apparatus, comprising:

• a plurality of sliding portions provided at a position at a predetermined height from a reference surface extending along a horizontal surface, the plurality of sliding portions each retaining one end side of at least one electric wire, configuring a wire harness having a branch shape, toward the reference surface side, and the plurality of sliding portions being configured to line up along an arrangement direction in the reference surface to be parallel to each other to perform a movement in a straight line along a sliding direction between a first-end side and a second-end side;
• one or more base-end retaining portions provided at the first-end side as a base-end side of the movement in a straight line at the predetermined height to be immobile at least in the sliding direction, the base-end retaining portion being lined up in the arrangement direction to retain the other end side of at least one of the electric wire toward the reference surface side;
• and
• an electric-wire processing portion as a mechanism portion configured to perform an electric-wire processing including a processing of selectively bundling the electric wires to form the branch shape with respect to the plurality of electric wires that are stretched between the one or more base-end retaining portions and the plurality of sliding portions by the plurality of sliding portions, each retaining the one end side of the electric wire, moving to a position in response to the branch shape between the first-end side and the second-end side, wherein the electric-wire processing portion is provided to not in contact with the electric wire even in a case in which the electric wire hangs downward due to the position of the sliding portion.