Device for fitting the ends of electrical conductors or similar elements into a box
AssigneePrecision Mecanique Labinal
InventorSergio Leandris
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Abstract
The plugging into a box having several recesses of the ends, having generally crimped connections, of electrical conductors is provided. A box carrier brings a box with a socket into a position fixed in space opposite the connection to be plugged in. This connection is brought into the plugging-in position by means of a gripper actuated by a drum moved by a carriage and acting on a plate which moves the pushrods recalled by springs. The invention applies to the automatic plugging in of electrical conductors.
Claims10
A device for fitting the ends of electrical conductors or similar elements into a box, said device being operated in cooperation with a fixed supply corridor, adapted to feed a succession of suitably orientated boxes, and a transporter of conductors or wires, adapted to bring in a predetermined order a succession of conductors comprising at least one free end, with the free end of each successive conductor in a well-defined position;
- said device including
- a box carrier comprising means for receiving a box from a supply corridor and means for bringing this box into a predetermined succession of well-defined fixed positions, in each of which a well-defined recess or socket of this box occupies a position fixed in space, and means for releasing this box once it is provided with its conductors;
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- a unit for feeding and plugging in successive conductors or wires comprising grasping means adapted to grasp and release a conductor, means for bringing these grasping means opposite a conductor brought into position by a transporter, means for controlling the grasping of this conductor by said grasping means, means for bringing said grasping means and a conductor grasped thereby opposite said position fixed in space occupied by a well-defined recess of a box held by said box carrier, means for moving said grasping means so as to plug a free end of a conductor held by the grasping means into this well-defined recess and to ensure snap-fitting of this free end into this recess, and means for releasing this conductor from said grasping means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.