Axial lead component preforming and insertion apparatus
AssigneeUniversal Instruments Corporation
InventorsRoy M. Whiting, Henry J. Soth, Phillip A. Ragard
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Abstract
An apparatus for sequentially feeding axial lead electrical components to a first plane, severing surplus lead material, bending one lead so that said component and said other lead are perpendicular to the first plane, preforming the end of the other lead into an L-shape, bending the remaining section of the one lead to be perpendicular to the first plane and inserting the leads into holes in a circuit board.
Claims13
An apparatus for processing electrical components having a body portion and a first and second lead portion extending from the body portion in opposite directions comprising:
- means for sequentially feeding said components;
- means for aligning said feed component in a first plane;
- means for severing surplus lead material from said first and second lead portions;
- first means for bending said first lead so that said second lead, said body and a first section of the first lead contiguous to said body are substantially perpendicular to said first plane;
- means for forming the severed extremity of said second lead at the termination of the operation of said first bending means, said forming means including an anvil aligned substantially perpendicular to said first plane to cooperate with said first bending means to form the severed end of said second lead at the termination of the operation of said first bending means;
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- second means for bending a second section of said first lead so that said second section is also substantially perpendicular to said first plane.
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