Patent ID: 8096046

Claim:
An apparatus for loading stator windings into a stator core, the apparatus comprising: an arbor member including a body having an outer diametric portion and a central axis, the outer diametric portion including a plurality of slots; a first guide track including a first end that extends to a second end through a slide portion, the first end being positioned adjacent the outer diametric portion of the arbor member; a second guide track including a first end that extends to a second end through a slide portion, the first end being positioned adjacent the outer diametric portion of the arbor member and spaced from the first end of the first guide track; and a third guide track including a first end that extends to a second end through a slide portion, the first end being positioned adjacent the outer diametric portion of the arbor member and spaced from the first end of the first guide track and the first end of the second guide track, wherein at least one of the first, second, and third guide tracks and the arbor member is selectively positionable to guide slot segment portions of corresponding first, second, and third stator windings into predetermined ones of the plurality of slots.