Patent ID: 7752740

Claim:
An apparatus for laying at least one electrical line ( 7 , 8 , 9 ) into grooves ( 6 ) of an inductor ( 4 ), the apparatus comprising: a first, preceding vehicle part ( 11 ) equipped with a bending and offset unit ( 14 ) for configuring meander undulations in said line ( 7 , 8 , 9 ) and for discharging said undulations at a rear end, said undulations having limbs ( 7 a , 8 a , 9 a ) and winding heads ( 7 b , 8 b , 9 b ), a second vehicle part ( 16 ) following said first vehicle part ( 11 ) and being equipped with a pressing station ( 18 ) for pressing the limbs ( 7 a , 8 a , 9 a ) of the undulations into the grooves ( 6 ) of the inductor ( 4 ), with the first and second vehicle parts movable independently of one another, means ( 24 ) for displacing the second vehicle part ( 16 ) relative to the first vehicle part ( 11 ), to keep said second vehicle part ( 16 ) on standstill during pressing steps for the limbs ( 7 a , 8 a , 9 a ) and to let said second part ( 16 ) follow-up the first vehicle part ( 11 ) during transport steps taken between the pressing steps at a moving speed (v 3 ), a slide ( 15 ) that is drivingly coupled to the first vehicle part ( 11 ) for transferring the undulations to the second vehicle part ( 16 ), said slide having an end section ( 15 a ) assigned to a pressing station ( 18 ), a conveying unit ( 27 ) being at least arranged in an area between an end section ( 15 a ) of said slide ( 15 ) and the pressing station ( 18 ) and being coupled to the second vehicle part ( 16 ), said conveying unit ( 27 ) being arranged to take-up the limbs ( 7 a , 8 a , 9 a ) of the undulations discharged at the end section ( 15 a ) of the slide ( 15 ) such that the limbs ( 7 a , 8 a , 9 a ) are transferred to the pressing station ( 18 ) at substantially equal distances, and driving means ( 30 ) for keeping said conveying unit ( 27 ) on standstill during the pressing steps and for moving said conveying unit ( 27 ) during the transport steps at a speed (v 4 ) which is oppositely equal to said moving speed (v 3 ) of the second vehicle part ( 16 ) during the transport steps.