Wire insulation stripping apparatus

Wire stripping apparatus for stripping insulation off a wire core, comprising:

• (a) a guide forming at least one opening to receive an insulated wire end, PG,18
• (b) wire end sensor means for sensing a wire end inserted through said opening,
• (c) wire end clamping means operable in response to said sensing to clamp said insulated wire inserted through said opening,
• (d) cutter means operable in response to said sensing to sever a predetermined length of insulation on said insulated wire end inserted through said opening,
• (e) and carriage structure carrying said sensor means and said cutter means to retract same relatively away from said clamp means after said clamp means has clamped said wire end and after said cutter means has severed said insulation, thereby to pull said selected length of insulation off the wire core,
• (f) a housing for said apparatus, the housing having a front panel, there being multiple of said guides carried by said front panel and forming different size bore to receive different diameter wires, there being one each of said sensor means, clamping means, and cutter means associated with each of the guides,
• (g) said carriage structure carrying all of said sensor means and cutter means to retract them simultaneously relatively away from the clamp means and guides,
• (h) each of said clamp means including fixed and movable clamp members, and including additional structure carrying all of said movable clamp members for simultaneous movement of the movable members relatively toward and away from the fixed members, said additional structure including a bar carrying said movable clamp members, pivoted arms carrying said bar, and a clamp actuator on the frame and operatively connected to said pivoted arms,
• (i) and wherein said cutter means include multiple relatively fixed and movable blades, and including elongated relatively fixed and movable bars to which the blades are individually and removably connected, the movable blades carried by the movable bar and the fixed blades carried by the fixed bar, the blades having different size cutting edges corresponding to different wire insulation sizes.