Wire positioning device
AssigneeSchleuniger Holding AG
InventorPeter Schuetz
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Abstract
Wire positioning devices (1) for positioning an electrical wire (2) in a processing device, include a wire guide (4) for receiving the electrical wire (2) and a lowering device (5), movable vertically in relation to a first longitudinal axis (45) of the wire (2) received in the wire guide (4). The lowering device (5) has a press piece (6), spring-loaded via at least one spring element (15), and is provided so as to be contacted against the wire guide (4), the spring element (15) being arranged in a tube (16). Also disclosed are methods for lowering thin wires (2) and for positioning them in an oscillation-damped manner, wherein a wire positioning device (1) or a processing device are employed.
Claims12
A wire processing system comprising:
- a wire processing station including a housing and a wire processing tool mounted to said housing, and said wire processing tool being configured to receive and process an end of a wire;
- a movable wire guide spaced apart from said wire processing tool, and said movable wire guide being configured to receive a wire and to move an end of said wire protruding from said wire guide to said wire processing tool;
- a pressure piece, including a first contact surface, movably mounted to said housing, said pressure piece being initially positioned in a first position above said wire guide when said wire guide moves said protruding end of said wire to said wire processing tool;
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- a stop, including a second contact surface, fixedly mounted to said housing, and said stop being positioned below said wire guide when said wire guide moves said protruding end of said wire to said wire processing tool,
- said pressure piece being configured, when said wire guide moves said protruding end of said wire to said processing tool, to move downwardly from the first position to a second position, where said first contact surface initially contacts an upper surface of said wire guide, and to further move downwardly, while said first contact surface presses downwardly on said upper surface, from said second position to a third position, where said second contact surface contacts a lower surface of said wire guide, either directly or indirectly, thereby stopping the motion of said wire guide induced by said pressure piece and thereby clamping said wire guide between said pressure piece and said stop, whereby oscillations of said wire guide and of said protruding end of said wire are damped prior to said protruding end of said wire being received and processed by said wire processing tool.
A wire processing station comprising:
- a housing and a wire processing tool mounted to said housing, and said wire processing tool being configured to receive and process an end of a wire moved to said wire processing tool by a movable wire guide;
- a pressure piece, including a first contact surface, movably mounted to said housing, said pressure piece being initially positioned in a first position above the movable wire guide when the movable wire guide moves a protruding end of the wire to said wire processing tool;
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- a stop, including a second contact surface, fixedly mounted to said housing, said stop being positioned below the movable wire guide when the movable wire guide moves the protruding end of the wire to said processing tool,
- said pressure piece being configured, when the movable wire guide moves the protruding end of the wire to said processing tool, to move downwardly from said first position to a second position, where said first contact surface initially contacts an upper surface of the wire guide, and to move further downwardly, while said first contact surface presses downwardly on said upper surface, from said second position to a third position, where said second contact surface contacts a lower surface of the wire guide, either directly or indirectly, thereby stopping the motion of the wire guide induced by said pressure piece and thereby clamping the wire guide between said pressure piece and said stop, whereby oscillations of the wire guide and of the protruding end of the wire are damped prior to the protruding end of the wire being received and processed by said wire processing tool.
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