Completing a linear motor stator

Method of providing a multiphase winding into the grooves of a stator of a linear motor, the stator being mounted, with open grooves facing down, on the underside of a support and carrier plate being carried in an elevated position, comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of individual separate cables on a vehicle and moving the vehicle on said carrier;
• withdrawing the cables individually as the vehicle moves along the carrier and bending the cables individually commensurate with a desired meandering configuration for each of the cables as becoming thereby a part of a winding package to be placed into said grooves;
• providing on said vehicle a plurality of holders which holders are being paid in steps and being spaced from each other commensurate with the spacing of the grooves;
• placing the meander shaped cables in superimposed staggered relationship corresponding to the winding pattern to be attained and providing ribbon connection as well as placing the holding elements at a fixed distance onto portions of the cables which extend transversely to the extension and direction of extension of the stator as a whole to thereby complete a winding package;
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• placing said portions with attached holding elements into said grooves, in sequence and pursuant to the propagation of the vehicle on the carrier.