Patent ID: 7557323

Claim:
A wire retrieving device for a cutting machine which includes an upper mold, a lower mold, a dispensing unit for dispensing a metal wire toward the upper mold, the wire retrieving device comprising: a retrieving unit including a block which is adapted to be located beside the metal wire and a blowing path defined through the block, an open end of the blowing path connected with an air source, a suction path defined in a side of the block and having an oblique port formed in a surface of the block and an engaging port which communicates with the blowing path, a width of the oblique portion being larger than that of the engaging port; a pushing member adapted to push the metal wire toward the block by an electro-magnetic valve, the pushing member having an inclined open end which is removably matched with the oblique port of the block; an electrode unit including a positive electrode and a negative electrode, the pushing member located between the positive and negative electrodes, the electrode unit adapted to cut the metal wire, a pair of driving rollers located a down stream of the electrode unit and adapted to pull the metal wire toward the upper mold, and a tube having an end co-axially communicating with the other end of the blowing path.