Laminated core banding apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR BANDING A STACK OF SLOTTED CORE LAMINATIONS TO FORM A CORE, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A BASE MEMBER ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE LAMINATIONS IN GENERALLY ALIGNED STACKED RELATION WITH THEIR SLOTS FORMING A BANDING STRIP RECEIVING GROOVE, BANDING MEANS FOR APPLYING A STRIP OF BANDING MATERIAL TO THE STACK IN THE GROOVE, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID BASE MEMBER FROM A LOADING POSITION ON ONE SIDE OF SAID BAND APPLYING MEANS THROUGH AN INTERMEDIATE POSITION WHERE THE BAND ENGAGES THE STACK AND THEN TO A FINAL POSITION IN THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF SAID BANDING MEANS IN A DIRECTION PARALLEL TO THE GROOVE, SAID BANDING MEANS HAVING A GUIDE MEMBER ADAPTED TO PROJECT INTO THE GROOVE AS SAID BASE MEMBER MOVES FROM SAID LOADING POSITION TO SAID INTERMEDIATE POSITION, SAID GUIDE MEMBER AND SAID BASE MEMBER COACTING TO FURTHER ALIGN AND TO PRESERVE THE ALIGNMENT OF THE LAMINATIONS, A HEAD MEMBER FACING SAID BASE MEMBER, AND MEANS FOR MOVING SAID HEAD MEMBER TOWARD SAID BASE MEMBER TO ENGAGE THE STACK AT SAID INTERMEDIATE POSITION AND COMPRESS THE STACK AGAINST SAID BASE MEMBER, SAID BANDING MEANS ALSO HAVING MEANS FOR DEFORMING THE STRIP INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH THE GROOVE AS SAID BASE AND HEAD MEMBERS AND THE STACK MOVE FROM SAID INTERMEDIATE POSITION TO SAID FINAL POSITION, WHEREBY TO LOCK THE LAMINATIONS TOGETHER; SAID GUIDE MEMBER COMPRISING AN ELONGATED BODY PORTION AND A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING RIB POSITIONED ON THE BODY PORTION TO ENTER THE GROOVE, THE WIDTH OF SAID RIB BEING SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE WIDTH OF SAID GROOVE; SAID RIB COMPRISING A CARBIDE INSERT HAVING AN END PROJECTING TOWARD SAID LOADING POSITION AND BEVELED TO CAM THE LAMINATIONS INTO ALIGNMENT AS THE BASE MEMBER AND THE STACK MOVE TOWARD SAID INTERMEDIATE POSITION.