Patent ID: 9077135
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A machine for delivering hollow bushes supplied and for fitting individual hollow bushes to a cable, comprising: a bush fitting apparatus for fitting individual hollow bushes to a cable, the bush fitting apparatus having a fitting tube that picks up and holds, on an outer surface of said tube, the hollow bushes on an inner surface thereof, and in which the cable is arranged for the fitting of the hollow bushes; a picking apparatus configured to move downwardly into engagement with the hollow bushes in a feed device, to lift the engaged hollow bushes upwardly from the feed device and to move the lifted hollow bushes laterally into axial alignment with the fitting tube; and a delivery apparatus for delivering the hollow bushes from the picking apparatus to the bush fitting apparatus, wherein the delivery apparatus comprises: a slip-over device which moves relative to the picking apparatus, by which the hollow bushes are delivered from the picking apparatus to the fitting tube, and a filling mandrel which protrudes through the fitting tube in order to deliver the hollow bush from the picking apparatus to the bush fitting apparatus and moves back out of the fitting tube in order to fit the hollow bush on the cable.