A cable feeder having a first drive unit, a second drive unit, a third drive unit and grippers. The first drive unit has a platform, which is rotatable about a third point of rotational and driven by a motor via a belt. The second drive unit is carried by the platform and arranged to be displaceable on the platform in the direction of an axis by the third drive unit. The grippers with the cable ends when in the operating region of an automatic insulation-stripping device are controlled by the second drive unit so that both cable axes extend parallelly and the cable ends are stripped of insulation at the same time. Thereafter, the second drive unit with the grippers is displaced rearwardly in the direction of the axis by the third drive unit and pivoted into the operating range of the following automatic device for the equipping of sealing sleeves. After this operation, the cable ends are brought into the operating region of an automatic crimping device.