A double end terminal attachment machine constituting an improvement over one of the devices disclosed and claimed in U. S. Pat. No. 3,267,556 wherein there is a feed wheel having its own separate torque motor. Wire is propelled about the feed wheel to the clutch wheel and the wire is then propelled about the clutch wheel and downstream toward the terminal affixing components of the machine. The variable drive of the feed wheel is achieved through the provision of two trunnions which act individually and together to slow down the action of the feed wheel, stop the feed wheel, allow it to move somewhat forwardly, then reverse it for a very short period and start the feed wheel moving again to propel wire forwardly to the clutch wheel which operates at a constant speed except that it is shut off from the time the forward motion of the feed wheel stops until the time as the reversing action of the feed wheel has been completed. The foregoing action produces a sufficient delay in the operation of the feed wheel so that the terminal affixing mechanism of U.S. Pat. No. 3,267,556 can become operative and complete its function. By virtue of the interposition of the second trunnion the wire is gripped when it is stationary, and this gives rise to an improvement in accuracy and achieving a more precise length of cut, stripped and terminated wire.
A machine having a multiplicity of work stations for performing a series of sequential operations on a work piece has all of said operations grouped into a plurality of generally homogeneous categories, with the motions required to perform operations in any particular category being provided by a single motion-generating cam, there being one cam for each category of operations.
The invention provides wire conveying clamp assemblies for high speed conveying of accurately sized wire leads and for precisely presenting the leads for mass termination, as for example to the terminals on a terminal block. The clamp assemblies are secured to an endless chain that rotates in a flat orbital path, and each assembly includes a side plate support fixedly attached to the chain, and a clamp housing slideably attached to that side plate support. The clamp housing is slideably movable along the side plate support in a direction parallel to the path of movement of the chain. A clamp arm is slideably mounted on the housing, and guide pin means are slideably engaged in the arm. A comb for engaging wire leads is attached to one end of the guide pin means, and pusher means move the comb and the guide pin means transversely relative to the chain path to cause separation of the free ends of the wire leads.
A harness-receiving apparatus for receiving an electrical harness comprising electrical wires connected at respective ends thereof to electrical connectors and fed from a harness-making machine (HMM) comprises: a first carrier rail positioned with respect to the harness-naking machine (HMM) for receiving one of the connectors for movement therealong while the other of the connectors hangs down during movement of the harness along the first carrier rail; a second carrier rail at an outer end of the first carrier rail and being directed downwardly with respect to the first carrier rail so that the one connector is transferred from the first carrier rail to the second carrier rail while the other connector continues to hang down during the movement of the one connector and the harness along the second carrier rail; and a harness-receiving member positioned below the second carrier rail for receiving the harness from the second carrier rail and arranging the harness in the direction of the second carrier rail.
In an engine starter of the present invention, a driving shaft to output a rotating force and a crankshaft of an engine are linked continuously. The engine starter comprises a one-way clutch to prevent an overrun of an armature after the engine starts. In the one-way clutch, a connecting rotation number in which an inner ring and an outer ring change from a disconnected state to a connected state in a decreasing process of engine revolutions is set above a lower limit of the engine revolutions above which the engine under suspension of the fuel supply is able to get restarted by itself by resuming of fuel supply. Therefore, the engine is always able to get restarted quickly even in a low-rotation range.
