Two-shift automatic assembling apparatus

A two-shift automatic assembling apparatus for selectively assembling at least one component member to an incomplete work of a first model or at least one component member to an incomplete work of a second model during each cycle of operation of the apparatus, comprising:

• a frame structure for accomodating at least a portion of one of said incomplete works of the first and second models therewithin and for permitting each of the incomplete works to be conveyed in a longitudinal direction therethrough, and
• a base structure supported on said frame structure and having two parallel opposite faces, said base structure being rotatable between two diametrically opposite angular positions about an axis fixed with respect to said frame structure and substantially parallel with said two faces of the base structure and with said longitudinal direction, and two sets of assembling fixtures detachably mounted on said two faces, respectively, of the base structure, each set of said assembling fixtures including work gauge means adapted to hold each of said incomplete works in a predetermined position with respect to said frame structure, carrier means adapted to carry each of said component members from the outside of said frame structure into a predetermined position within the frame structure, and parts gauge means adapted to transfer the component member from said predetermined position thereof into a predetermined ready-for-assembly position with respect to the work held in position by said work gauge means.