Patent ID: 6736032
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: H02G

Abstract:
A wire stripper for stripping a coating from a core at an end of a coated wire, the stripper comprising:a machine frame; gripper means mounted in the frame for gripping the coating; cutter means mounted in the frame for nipping and cutting the coating immediately behind the gripper means so as to cut the coating and strip it away from the core with the cutter means; a reversible main spindle supported in the machine frame so as to be slideable crosswise axially to enable the gripping of the gripper means as well as the nipping and cutting of the cutter means, the main spindle having a lead-screw shaft; and a nut block coupled with the lead-screw shaft so that the lead-screw shaft advances by forward rotation of the main spindle to close the gripper means and the cutter means, and so that the nut block is subsequently moved backward by the lead-screw shaft after the main spindle has stopped advancing, the cutter means is then withdrawn to strip the cut coating away from the core.