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US 4,784,564 AGranted
Reel unloading and handling structure
AssigneeMTS Systems Corporation
InventorKenneth G. Selesky
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Abstract
A wire handling system removes a reel of wire from a conveyor, presents the reel to a terminal insertion head which grasps a wire on the reel, withdraws the wire from the reel while the reel is allowed to rotate, and inserts an end of the wire into a connector. After insertion of the wire end into the connector, the reel is moved by the handling system and stacked upon or within a group of previously stacked reels.
Claims14
Apparatus for handling a wire reel comprising:
- a support,
- first and second mutually spaced pickup members fixedly connected to said support, said pickup members being spaced from one another by a distance not less than the thickness of a reel to be handled,
- said pickup members comprising mutually opposed inwardly biased resilient holding devices for slidably receiving and grasping a reel positioned between the members, and
- means for moving said support between a plurality of positions to thereby move a reel positioned between said pickup members.
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Apparatus for handling a wire reel comprising:
- a support,
- first and second mutually spaced pickup members fixedly connected to said support, said pickup members being spaced from one another by a distance not less than the thickness of a reel to be handled,
- means on said pickup members for grasping a reel positioned between the members, and
- means for moving said support beween a plurality of positions to thereby move a reel positioned between said pickup members, each said means for grasping a reel comprising a plurality of inwardly biased resilient reel holding fingers on said pickup members adapted to slidably receive a reel there between.
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Apparatus for handling a wire reel comprising:
- a support,
- first and second mutually spaced pickup members fixedly connected to said support, said pickup members being spaced from one another by a distance not less than the thickness of a reel to be handled,
- means on said pickup members for grasping a reel positioned between the members, and
- means for moving said support between a plurality of positions to thereby move a reel positioned between said pickup members, including pusher means mounted to said means for moving said support for motion between a retracted position in which the pusher means is located between said pickup members and an extended position in which the pusher means is positioned at adjacent ends of said pickup members.
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An object manipulating apparatus comprising:
- a carriage housing,
- first and second mutually spaced and mutually opposed spring fingers mounted to the housing and having free ends adapted to resiliently clasp therebetween an object to be manipulated, and
- a pusher block slidably mounted on the housing for motion between said spring fingers from a first position remote from said free ends of said spring fingers to a second position at the free ends of said spring fingers, thereby to eject an object resiliently clasped between the spring fingers therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.