Edward Craver

US Patent:

44008740, Aug 30, 1983

Filed:

Jul 30, 1981

Appl. No.:

6/288438

Inventors:

Edward H. Craver - Clemmons NC
Samuel Pinnolis - Winston-Salem NC

Assignee:

Western Electric Company - New York NY

International Classification:

H01R 4300
B23P 1900

US Classification:

29861

Abstract:

In the wiring of connector plugs (18) to produce a wire mult, a wire (16) is first positioned in a terminal guide slot (32) on one side of a first connector plug (18) and then offset-dressed about a camming pin (52) of a wire insertion-and-slack forming tool (50) into alignment with a wire strain-relief slot (38) on an opposite side of the plug. Operation of the tool (50) then inserts the wire (16) into a terminal (24) on the one side of the first connector plug (18) and forms slack in the wire between the first connector plug and a second connector plug (18). The tool (50) next inserts the wire (16) into the wire strain-relief slot (38) of the first connector plug (18) and a terminal guide slot (38) on one side of the second connector plug (18) substantially simultaneously. The tool (50) includes dual air cylinders (64 and 66) and respective wire-engaging blades (54 and 56) which operate in sequence to perform the multing operation.