Patent ID: 9649737
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: B23P,B23Q,H01R,Y10T

Claim:
1. A cable bushing fitting machine comprising: a fitting region; a mandrel disposed at said fitting region, said mandrel being hollow to receive a cable therethrough; a first rotatably mounted stripping jaw arranged in said fitting region; a second rotatably mounted stripping jaw arranged in said fitting region; a drive configured to mount cable bushings onto cable by successively disposing respective ones of the cable bushings onto the mandrel, feeding the cable through mandrel, and executing a relative movement between said mandrel and said first and second rotatably mounted stripping jaws to locate the respective cable bushings onto the cable; a camera directed towards said fitting region and having optical axis intersecting said mandrel to capture images of the respective cable bushings located on the cable; said first rotatably mounted stripping jaw having a respective rotation axis aligned parallel to an axis of said mandrel, said first stripping jaw rotation axis being laterally offset from the optical axis of said camera by a distance sufficient to permit said camera unimpeded views of cable bushings in said fitting region when said first stripping jaw is at least to a first selected extent opened; said second rotatably mounted stripping jaw having a respective rotation axis aligned parallel to the axis of said mandrel, said second stripping jaw rotation axis being laterally offset from the optical axis of said camera by a distance sufficient to permit said camera unimpeded views of cable bushings in said fitting region when said second stripping jaw is at least to a second selected extent opened; and said first stripping jaw rotation axis and said second stripping jaw rotation axis being equidistant from said camera optical axis and being situated on one side of said mandrel relative to said camera optical axis, such that: (i) rotation of the first and second stripping jaws towards one another, and towards the mandrel, results in the respective cable bushings being captured by the first and second stripping jaws, and (ii) advancement of the cable through the mandrel while the respective cable bushings are captured results in the respective cable bushings being located on the cable.