Cable-bundling equipment for cable-processing machines

Cable-bundling equipment for a cable-processing machine, including a cable trough for receiving cables being processed by said cable processing machine, said cable-bundling equipment comprising:

• a cable receptacle unit rotatably secured at a mounting plate on a machine frame of said cable-processing machine;
• said cable receptacle unit including multiple first and second bundle clamps, wherein said multiple first bundle clamps are utilized for receptively clamping fault-free cables and said multiple second bundle clamps are utilized with receptively clamping faulty cables;
• a first gripper, movably secured at a pivot axis on said mounting plate, said first gripper is pivotable about said pivot axis and extending into first, second and third operative setting positions, said first gripper including a moveable part, said moveable part being displaceable perpendicularly relative to said pivotal axis, said moveable part including two pivotable gripper jaws;
• a second gripper, displaceably mounted on said machine frame, is provided for feeding said cables;
• wherein said first gripper, in said first operative setting, always accepts a cable from said second gripper and, in said second operative setting transfers said cable to one of a first bundle clamp and, in said third operative setting, to a second bundle clamp;
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• wherein said cables are transferred, at one end of the bundle clamp, which end is retained and transported by said second gripper, perpendicularly to a direction of movement of said second gripper, while the other end of said cable is guided in said cable trough.