Automatic wire feeder
OwnerEdwin L. Storzinventor
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Abstract
An automatic wire feeder for feeding pieces of wire in an assembly operation. More particularly, an automatic wire feeder for feeding pieces of wire in a radial assembly operation wherein the automatic wire feeder drops the wires, one by one, in a wire loading device having means for holding the wires in assembled condition.
Claims10
Apparatus for use in manufacturing a wire product, said apparatus including a wire feeder, said feeder including an inclined surface down which the wires to be fed roll, a wire holding device having first and second spring biased members alternatively reciprocated by a cam and serving as stops for the wire at the lower end of the inclined surface, said first and second members being in side-by-side relationship, said second reciprocating member including a flat foot for pressing several wires adjacent the endmost wire against the inclined surface, said first reciprocating member including a blade longitudinally adjustable with respect to the foot for selectively spacing said blade down the inclined surface from said foot less than two diameters of the wire being fed such that when the foot is pressed against the wires adjacent the endmost wire the blade permits only a single wire to roll from the lower end of the inclined surface, said flat foot being oppositely spring biased with respect to the bias of the second reciprocating member.
Apparatus for use in manufacturing a wire product, said apparatus including a wire feeder and a wire loader, said feeder including an inclined surface down which the wires to be fed roll, first and second reciprocating members alternatively serving as stops for the wires at the lower end of the inclined surface, said first reciprocating member spaced down the inclined surface from said second reciprocating member, said space being substantially less than two diameters of the wire being fed such that when said second reciprocating member is serving as a stop, said first reciprocating member permits only a single wire to roll from the lower end of the inclined surface, said wire loader including a fixture having concentricly positioning means for a hub surrounded by a rim, first and second guide rings located on the fixture between the hub and the rim adapted for receipt of a wire falling from the lower end of the inclined surface of the wire feeder.
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