Machine for staking a two part connector housing together

A machine for staking two parts of a multi-part electrical connector together wherein said machine has a frame, a base surface attached to said frame, a ram coupled to said frame and arranged to undergo reciprocating motion along an axis toward and away from said base surface and a staking tooling said staking tooling comprising:

• (a) an upper die coupled to and carried within a bore of said ram, movable along said axis within said bore and biased toward said base surface by a first resilient member;
• (b) a lower die coupled to said base surface, biased toward said ram by a second resilient member, including a nest formed in a surface of said lower die facing said ram for receiving and positioning said two parts of said electrical connector;
• (c) an upper staking pin coupled to and carried by said ram;
• (d) a lower staking pin coupled to and stationary with respect to said base surface,
• said staking tooling arranged so that when said two parts of said electrical connector are assembled and placed in said nest, one part being an upper part facing said ram and the other part being a lower part in engagement with said nest, and said ram moved toward said base surface, said upper die engages said upper part urging said upper die to move within said bore and said lower die to move toward said base surface thereby deflecting said first and second resilient members so that said upper and lower parts of said connector are held therebetween by the urging of said resilient members and said upper staking pin engages and stakes a portion of said lower part of said connector and concurrently said lower staking pin engages and stakes a portion of said upper part of said connector.