Stepped combination apparatus
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshikazu Sakaue, Tatsuo Mitsunaga, Toshihiro Kinoshita
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Abstract
A stepped combination apparatus comprises transferring means for moving a bundle of component wires arranged in plural rows and plural lines in the longitudinal direction; pushing means for pushing the component wires to the line direction to put out a component wire at the opposite side; shifting means for shifting the component wire which is put out by the pushing means, to the other row; and stepped-bending means for stepped-bending the component wire which is put out. The operation time can be significantly shortened and a U-shape bundle of component wires can be treated by the apparatus.
Claims6
A stepped combination apparatus for a bundle of longitudinally extending component wires, said bundle including a plurality of rows of wires extending in a row direction, each of said rows having a plurality of lines of wires extending in a line direction transverse to said row direction, said apparatus comprising:
- transferring means associated with said bundle for moving said bundle in the longitudinal direction,
- pushing means adapted to contact one side of said bundle for pushing at least one of said rows of wires in the line direction whereby the component wire of said at least one row on a side opposite said pushing means is offset from the wires of remaining rows;
- shifting means adapted to contact said bundle for shifting said offset wire in the row direction and into one of the remaining rows;
- step bending means for providing a step bend in said offset wires;
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- insulator inserting means for inserting an insulator for the shifted part between the component wire step bent by the stepped bending means and the adjacent component wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.