Apparatus for assembling switches

Claim 1

IN AN APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING A SWITCH HAVING A PAIR OF CONTACTS EXTENDING WITHIN A GLASS SLEEVE, AN ASIN SUBSTANTIAL AXIAL ALIGNMENT THEREWITH TO RECEIVE THE ENDS OF THE GLASS SLEEVE AND CAUSE SEALING OF THE SEMBLY UNIT WHICH COMPRISES: A HOUSING WITH AN OPEN TOP, ENDS OF THE SLEEVE AT GIVEN INTERVALS, MEANS DISPOSED AT THE FEEDING STATION TO FEED UPPER AND A CARRIAGE FRAME MOUNTED IN THE HOUSING AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY THROUGH THE OPEN TOP, LOWER CONTACT TO THE UPPER AND LOWER JAWS AND A GLASS SLEEVE INTO THE HEATING COILS AND THE CHUCK, A STATIONARY CHUCK MOUNTED AT A GIVEN POSITION ON THE FRAME FOR RECEIVING A GLASS SLEEVE, MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ADVANCING THE CARRIAGES TO LOCATE THE UPPER AND LOWER JAWS IN A POSITION TO REUPPER AND LOWER GRIPPING JAWS FOR RECEIVING UPPER AND LOWER CONTACTS FOR THE SWITCH, CEIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE UPPER AND LOWER CONTACTS AND TO RETRACT THE CARRIAGE TO LOCATE THE JAWS IN A POSITION UPPER AND LOWER CARRIAGE FOR THE UPPER AND LOWER SUCH THAT THEY ARE IN SUBSTANTIAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE GRIPPING JAWS DISPOSED RESPECTIVELY ABOVE AND BELOW STATIONARY CHUCK, THE STATIONARY CHUCK AND SUPPORTED FOR SIMULTANEMEANS FOR MOVING THE CARRIAGES SIMULTANEOUSLY FOR OUS OPPOSING MOVEMENT RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER BY CAUSING THE UPPER AND LOWER JAWS TO MOVE IN OPPOSITHE CARRIAGE FRAME, MEANS COOPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOWER CARRIAGE ING RELATIONSHIP TOWARDS THE CHUCK FOR LOCATING THE TO SUPPORT THE LOWER GRIPPING JAWS FOR LATERAL MOVEINNER END OF THEIR RESPECTIVE CONTACTS IN THE GLASS SLEEVE, MENT, MEANS FOR MOVING THE LOWER CARRIAGE LATERALLY TO CAUSE THE LOWER JAWS TO MOVE THE LOWER CONTACT OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH THE UPPER CONTACT AND THEREBY POSITION THE INNER ENDS OF THE CONTACTS IN OVERLAPPING RELATIONSHIP,