Assembly line for parts of electronic and other equipments

An assembly line for parts of electronic and other equipment having a plurality of assembling stations for carrying out a plurality of production steps, said assembly line comprising:

• a table assigned to each one of said plurality of assembling stations and each table having mounted thereon:
• (a) endless conveyor means mounted on an upper surface of the table across thereof and movable from one end to the other end of the table;
• (b) a drive source for driving said endless conveyor means;
• (c) stopping means comprising a stop lever for engaging an article conveyed by said endless conveyor means to stop the article in an operating position;
• (d) positioning means comprising a positioning pin for insertion in a hole formed in said article stopped by said stopping means in the operating station so as to thereby engage the article and correctly position the same in the operating position;
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• (e) operating means for performing an operation with the article positioned in the operating position in accordance with a predetermined schedule;
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• a sequence controller provided for each of said assembling stations for effecting sequence control of a series of operations performed by various elements in each station including actuating said stopping means and said positioning means to stop and position in said operating position an article supplied by said endless conveyor means across said table, actuating said operating means to perform a predetermined operation with said article, and releasing said positioning means to convey the article again by said endless conveyor means upon completion of the performance of the operation;
• said tables and said sequence controllers in said plurality of assembling stations capable of being arranged in any combination as desired to provide an assembly line suitable for performing a plurality of different assembling operations.