Apparatus and product useful in manufacture and handling of cable seals
AssigneeIndustrial Electronic Rubber Company
InventorMyles N. Murray
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Abstract
Cable seals of the type employed in sealed electrical connectors are maintained in a predetermined orientation throughout manufacture and handling of same whereby the cable seals may be presented in a usable form to automatic assembly equipment for manufacture in cable lead terminations employed in such connectors. According to the method of the invention, the cable seals are integrally molded in a belt which provides a handleable product with the seals being maintained by the belt in a predetermined orientation. The cable seals then are punched from the belt and simultaneously inserted into a carrier for subsequent handling while still maintaining the cable seals orientated for use such as in automatic assembly equipment.
Claims13
A product useful in automatic cable termination assembly machinery comprising:
- a flexible carrier strip having a plurality of seal receiving openings spaced along the length thereof, and cable seals inserted in such openings, said cable seals being of tubular configuration and having their axes extending substantially at right angles to the planer extent of said carrier strip.
A punch and die apparatus for punching cable seals from an integral belt and for inserting simultaneously the cable seals into a flexible carrier strip, comprising:
- alignment means for aligning at least one cable seal in the belt with a seal receiving opening in the flexible carrier strip, and
- punch means for shearing such one cable seal from the belt and simultaneously inserting the sheared cable seal into such seal receiving opening in the flexible carrier strip.
A device for punching seals from an integral belt and for inserting simultaneously the punched seals into a seal receiving opening in a carrier strip, comprising:
- belt backing means having a surface for supporting the belt, at least one bore in said belt backing means opening to said surface adapted to receive a seal therein, and a cutting edge adjacent said bore;
- means spaced from said surface for guiding the carrier strip transversely to said bore;
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- reciprocating punching means aligned with said bore for passage therethrough, said punching means having a cutting edge on its face cooperating with said cutting edge adjacent said bore to shear the seal from the belt as said punching means is moved into said bore, said punching means passing sufficiently into said bore to push the punched seal into the opening in the carrier strip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.