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US 4,589,188 AGranted
Terminal pin strip separator
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsTimothy W. Houtz, Charles M. Lovendusky
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Abstract
Terminal pin strips including transverse metal terminal pins embedded in and spaced along the length of a thermoplastic bar are subdivided or separated into predetermined lengths by means of a longitudinal blade having skiving edges which skive progressively deeper into the bar during a single reciprocation of the blade.
Claims22
Apparatus for broaching terminal pin strips, including laterally extending terminal pins embedded in and spaced along the longitudinal axis comprising:
- a longitudinal, planar skiver blade;
- means for reciprocating the skiver blade parallel to its, longitudinal axis;
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- means for supporting the terminal pin strip so that the longitudinal axis of the bar is perpendicular to the plane of the blade, the blade having a plurality of skiving edges, each of which skives progressively deeper into the bar as the blade is reciprocated toward the terminal pin strip so that the bar is completely severed by the blade after a single reciprocation of the blade.
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