Patent ID: 8555489

Claim:
A crimp assembly for a terminal crimping machine that crimps a terminal to a wire, the crimp assembly comprising: a crimper frame having opposed ends and a longitudinal axis extending between the opposed ends, the crimper frame having a jaw mount chamber therein, the jaw mount chamber being open at one of the ends of the crimper frame, the crimper frame having abutment surfaces defining portions of the jaw mount chamber; a jaw mount held by the crimper frame in the jaw mount chamber, the jaw mount having sockets; and crimp tooling held within the jaw mount, the crimp tooling comprising a pair of crimper jaws received in corresponding sockets of the jaw mount, the crimper jaws being pivotably coupled to the jaw mount, in the sockets, and movable with respect to one another, the crimper jaws having terminal engagement surfaces configured to engage the terminal to form a wire crimp during a crimping process, the crimper jaws having outer surfaces, wherein the abutment surfaces of the crimper frame engage the outer surfaces of the crimper jaws during the crimp process to move the crimp tooling in a first direction generally along the longitudinal axis and in a second direction transverse to the first direction.