Abstract:
An electronic component lead cutting and outwardly clinching mechanism having a linkage arrangement whereby the component leads are severed and outwardly clinched and the remaining portion of the lead is carried out of the cutting and clinching area by an evacuation channel. The mechanism has a three stage linkage attached to the cutters and the outward clinch members which act, respectively, to cut and then outwardly clinch the remaining lead portion beneath a circuit board.
Abstract:
An apparatus for individually selecting a number of dual in-line components and sequentially inserting them into a printed circuit board. The apparatus has a basic mode of operation comprising a group of feed magazines that are adapted to feed a single shuttle block which takes the components by a predetermined sequence and carries them to a transfer mechanism which bends the leads on either side of the component outwardly, transfers the prepared component to an insertion mechanism which forces the component downwardly while simultaneously biasing, but not bending, the leads inwardly. Another portion of the insertion mechanism forces the component with its biased leads into the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is mounted on a pantograph mechanism whose position is controlled by either a tape reader or a computer which also determines the automatic sequencing of the shuttle block.
Abstract:
An axial lead component dispensing apparatus which has the capacity to handle components having extremely long axial leads in relation to the longitudinal dimensions of the body of the component. The device incorporates a pair of notched feeder blades which are reciprocal to advance rolls of taped components. The feeder blades and accompanying components are transversely adjustable along a feed shaft from which the feeder blade gets its reciprocal motion and which also powers a cutter shaft to sever the leads below the feeder portion of the apparatus.