Screw socket assembly device
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsStanley J. Noesen, Fredrick M. Baldwin
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Abstract
Device for securing screw-shell in lamp socket housing. The device comprises a fixed mandrel for holding the terminal tab of the screw-shell which projects through a slot in the housing and a rotatable mandrel on the fixed mandrel for bending the ears adjacent the terminal tab so that the ears engage the socket housing adjacent the slot for retaining the screw-shell in the housing.
Claims6
Apparatus for securing a screw-shell to a lamp socket housing, wherein the screw-shell has a terminal strip extending through a slot in the housing into a confined space between the slot and the open bottom of the socket housing, the terminal strip being formed at its free end with a terminal tab and a pair of oppositely projecting ears spaced axially away from the terminal tab, said apparatus comprising a fixed mandrel having a slot at its end for receiving the terminal tab, and a tubular mandrel surrounding and rotatable about said fixed mandrel, said tubular mandrel formed at its end with a pair of radially spaced projections for respectively engaging the opposite ears of the terminal strip, and means for turning said tubular mandrel for bending the opposite ears about 90.degree. to the plane of the terminal strip while said fixed mandrel holds the terminal tab stationary.
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