Wire feeding apparatus

Claim 1

A WIRE FEEDING APPARATUS IN COMBINATION WITH A TURRET ROTATED INTERMITTENTLY BETWEEN INTERVALS OF REST TO LOCATE WIRE RECEIVING NESTS, HAVING UPWARDLY EXTENDING PROJECTIONS AND DISPOSED AT SPACED RADIALLY POSITIONED LOCATIONS ON THE TURRET, SUCCESSIVELY IN A FEEDING STATION, THE APPARTUS COMPRISING: A FIXED POSITION FRAME MOUNTED ADAJCENT THE TURRET AND EXTENDING OVER THE SUCCESSIVE NEST DIPOSED IN THE FEEDING STATION, A FEEDER FOR LENGTHS OF WIRE, COMPANION JAWS FOR THE FEEDER COOPERATING TO FORM A MOUTH FOR THE FEEDER WHICH IS GREATER IN CROSSSECTION THAN THE CROSS-SECTION OF THE LENGTHS OF WIRE TO READILY RECEIVE THE LENGTHS OF WIRE SINGLY WHEN THE JAWS ARE CLOSED, MEANS NORMALLY HOLDING THE JAWS CLOSED TO CAUSE THEM TO RECEIVE AND SUPPORT THE WIRES SINGLY IN THE CLOSED MOUTH OF THE FEEDER, MEANS MOUNTED ON THE FRAME AND OPERABLE TO SUPPORT THE FEEDER AND MOVE IT BETWEEN A RECEIVING POSITION ABOVE THE NEST AT THE FEEDING STATION AND A FEEDING POSITION IN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NEST, MEANS TO FEED THE LENGTHS OF WIRE LONGITUDINALLY SINGLY INTO THE CLOSED MOUTH OF THE FEEDER, AND MEANS CARRIED BY THE FEEDER TO ENGAGE THE PROJECTION OF THE NEST AT THE FEEDING STATION TO OPEN THE JAWS TO FREE THE LENGTH OF WIRE TO LEAVE THE MOUTH AND LIE IN THE NEST.