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AssigneesSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Tokai Electric Wire Company Limited
InventorsMichio Fukuda, Toshifumi Okunishi, Sinkichi Miwa, Yosinobu Ohta
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An improved apparatus for automatically producing cable with terminals crimped thereto is disclosed which includes a cable storing section, for storing various kinds of cables, a cable selecting section for selecting a required cable, a cable measuring and cutting section, a cable sheath stripping section for removing insulative sheath at the foremost end parts of the cable, a terminal crimping section having a plurality of terminal pressure connecting machines arranged in line along a conveyor, and a control circuit. The control circuit automatically controls selection of kinds of cables and terminals and their working conditions at every time when operations are achieved in each of the sections. The cable measuring and cutting section is provided with a direct measuring mechanism in which a distance of movement of the measuring head is measured while it is stretched under the effect of tension. The cable sheath stripping section is preferably provided with a stripping length adjusting mechanism which serves to adjustably determine the length of naked wire portion of the cable at the foremost end parts thereof with insulative sheath removed therefrom.
An apparatus for automatically producing cable with terminals crimped thereto comprising a cable storing section for storing a plurality of various kinds of cables each at a position predetermined in accordance with its kind, a cable selecting section for selectively taking a certain cable from a selected one of the group of cables stored in said cable storing section, a cable measuring and cutting section for measuring a predetermined extended length of a cable selected in said cable selecting section and cutting it to a preselected measured length, a cable sheath stripping section in which insulative sheaths at the cut ends of the selected cable are stripped, a terminal crimping seciton including a plurality of terminal crimping machines and feed means for different terminals and each having a crimp height adjusting mechanism incorporated therein, and a control circuit controlling said cable selecting section, said cable measuring and cutting section, said sheath stripping section and said terminal crimping section for selecting in sequence the desired kind of cable to be processed, measuring and cutting the appropriate length of the selected cable, stripping the ends thereof, and selecting the appropriate preselected terminal for each of said ends and attaching by crimping the selected terminals to the stripped ends.
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