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US 3,995,365 AGranted
Method of forming electrical contacts
AssigneeOtto Engineering, Inc.
InventorThomas J. Repplinger
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Abstract
A method of forming an electrical contact in an electrical component includes the steps of punching an opening in the electrical component, moving a strip of contact material over the electrical component, shearing a piece of contact material from the strip and inserting it into the opening, and forming the piece into a contact.
Claims5
A method of forming electrical components comprising the steps of:
- a. intermittently moving a flat strip of material in a first plane through a punch press past a plurality of stations in the punch press,
- b. forming an opening in the strip with the punch press at one of the stations,
- c. moving a round metal wire into the punch press in a second plane spaced from and generally parallel to the first plane,
- d. punching an axially extending cylindrical segment from the metal wire through the punch press in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the strip and into an opening in the strip at another station so that the axis of the cylindrical segment lies in the plane of the strip, and
- e. forming the punched segment of wire into an electrical contact at another station of the punch press.
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