US 4,045,870 AGranted

Socket inserter

AssigneePrecision Engineered Products, Inc.

InventorEldred D. Scott

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Abstract

An apparatus for inserting a socket into a printed circuit board comprising a supporting structure, first and second resilient fingers attached to the supporting structure, and a socket holding mechanism. The resilient fingers are adapted to receive and releasably retain a socket therebetween at a socket retaining station. The socket holding mechanism is mounted on the supporting structure for movement from a first position on the side of the socket retaining station remote from the printed circuit board toward the printed circuit board along a path which passes through the socket retaining station and between the resilient fingers. As the socket holding mechanism passes through the socket retaining station, the socket is removed from the resilient fingers and coupled to such mechanism so the socket holding mechanism can move the socket to the circuit board.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An apparatus for transporting a socket to a location on a base for attachment to the base wherein the socket is of the type having at least one aperture therein, said apparatus comprising:

a supporting structure;
a retaining means on the supporting structure for releasably retaining a socket at a socket retaining station with the aperture in the socket being at a predetermined location;
a socket holding mechanism including at least one protrusion sized for entering said aperture and being releasably retained therein;
means for mounting the socket holding mechanism for movement from a first position located on the side of the socket retaining station remote from the base along a path which extends through the socket retaining station and toward same location on said base and back toward the first position;
said mounting means mounting the socket holding mechanism so that said protrusion moves through said predetermined location in moving along said path toward said location on said base and said retaining means releasably holding the socket at the retaining station sufficiently so that the protrusion is inserted into said aperture and releasably retained therein as the socket holding mechanism is moved through the retaining station whereby the socket holding mechanism removes the socket from the retaining means and delivers it to said location at said base for attachment to the base;
and
actuator means for moving said socket holding mechanism along said path.

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An apparatus for transporting a socket to a location on a base for attachment to the base comprising:

a supporting structure;
first and second resilient fingers, each of said fingers having a free end;
means for attaching said resilient fingers to said supporting structure with said fingers extending from the supporting structure and with at least portions of said fingers being spaced apart;
said resilient fingers being for receiving and releasably retaining a socket therebetween at a socket retaining station;
a socket holding mechanism;
means for mounting said socket holding mechanism on said supporting structure for movement from a first position on the side of said socket retaining station remote from said base toward said base along a path which passes through said socket retaining station and between the free ends of said fingers;
said socket holding mechanism including means for releasably coupling the socket at the socket retaining station to the socket holding mechanism whereby movement of the socket holding mechanism along said path from the first position toward the base causes the socket holding mechanism to remove the socket from said socket retaining station and move it to said base;
and
actuator means for moving said socket holding mechanism along said path.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.