Automatic contact forming machine

Claim 1

IN AN AUTOMATIC MACHINE FOR FORMING CONTACTS ON APERTURED CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: A TURNTABLE HAVING A PLURALITY OF ANGULARLY SPACED POCKETS EACH ADAPTED TO RECEIVE AND SUPPORT ONE OF THE APERTURED CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS, SAID TURNTABLE BEING ROTATABLE ABOUT ITS AXIS IN A STEP-BY-STEP MANNER TO DISPOSE EACH OF SAID POCKETS SUCCESSIVELY INTO A POSITION OF DWELL AT EACH OF A PLURALITY OF WORK STATIONS; ONE OF THE STATIONS BEING A MEMBER-FEED STATION AT WHICH EACH OF SAID POCKETS IS NORMALLY FED A CONDUCTIVE MEMBER; ANOTHER OF SAID STATIONS, SEPARATED FROM SAID ONE STATION BY A PLURALITY OF INTERMEDIATELY DISPOSED WORK STATIONS, BEING A MEMBER-EJECTION STATION AT WHICH EACH OF SAID POCKETS IS NORMALLY EMPTIED; AT LEAST ONE OF THE WORK STATIONS INCLUDING RECIPROCABLE DOWNWARDLY DIRECTED LOCATOR MEANS ADAPTED TO PASS THROUGH THE CONDUCTIVE MEMBER REMOTELY FROM ITS CONTACT LOCATION; AND AN ARCUATE BAR EXTENDING CENTRALLY OVER EACH OF SAID POCKETS AT SAID INTERMEDIATELY DISPOSED WORK STATIONS, AND DISPOSED CLOSELY TO THE CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS IN SUCH POCKETS, SAID BAR BEING CONTINUALLY OPERATIVE TO HOLD THE CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS IN SUCH POCKETS DURING WORK ON SUCH MEMBERS AND DURING TURNTABLE INDEXING, AND TO STRIP THE CONDUCTIVE MEMBER FROM SAID LOCATOR MEANS.