Patent ID: 6385830
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: H01R,H02G,Y10T

Abstract:
An electric wire supplying apparatus comprising:an electric wire transfer tube for guiding an electric wire inserted into an electric wire insertion passage in said electric wire transfer tube into an electric wire sending-out direction and provided at its tip end with a notch; a nozzle disposed on a tip end of said electric wire transfer tube for guiding said electric wire sent out from said electric wire insertion passage out from a tip end opening through an electric wire passage in said nozzle; a transfer tube fixing holder for fixing a tip end of said electric wire transfer tube and having an opening opened in said notch of said electric wire transfer tube; and electric wire pressing means having an electric wire pressing portion that can move from said opening into and out from said notch and moving said electric wire pressing portion between a pressing position for pressing said electric wire of said electric wire insertion passage and a standby position for sending said electric wire in said electric wire insertion passage; wherein said nozzle is provided at its portion closer to said electric wire transfer tube with a projecting portion for substantially complementing a shape of the notch when said projecting portion is butted to a tip end of said electric wire transfer tube and said nozzle can move between a close position where said projecting portion is brought into close contact with the notch of said electric wire transfer tube and butted to said notch to close said opening, and an open position where said projecting portion is separated from said notch of said electric wire transfer tube to open said opening.