Patent ID: 7370408

Claim:
A terminal applicator for attaching an electrical terminal to a conductor, said terminal applicator including: a frame having an abutting surface attached thereto; an anvil supported by said frame; a feed mechanism coupled to said frame for feeding a strip of electrical terminals along a feed path extending to said anvil and positioning an electrical terminal in crimping position on said anvil; a ram, having crimping tooling attached thereto, in sliding engagement with said frame and arranged to undergo reciprocating motion carrying said crimping tooling along an axis in a crimping direction into crimping engagement with said electrical terminal on said anvil and in an opposite return direction away from said anvil, a hold down device having a hold down surface, said device carried by said ram for moving said hold down surface into close proximity to said terminal when said crimping tooling is approaching said crimping engagement with said terminal, wherein said hold down device comprises a standoff removably attached thereto that abuts said abutting surface when said crimping tooling is approaching said crimping engagement.