Matrix core threading apparatus

Abstract

Abstract A MACHINE FOR THREADING WIRES THROUGH AN ARRAY OF MAGNETIC CORES ON FILLER PLATES TO FORM A MEMORY MATRIX HAVING A RECTILINEARLY RECIPROCATIVE CARRIAGE ON WHICH PLURAL HOLLOW NEEDLES ARE FIRMLY HELD IN TENSIONED CONDITION WITH PORTIONS OF THE NEEDLES ADEQUATE TO SPAN THE FILLER PLATES PROJECTING BEYOND THE CARRIAGE. THE WIRES EXTEND THROUGH THE PROTRUDE A SHORT DISTANCE BEYOND THE NEEDLES AND ARE MOVED UNITARILY WITH THE NEEDLES AND CARRIAGE THROUGH AN ADVANCE STROKE FEEDING BOTH THE NEEDLES AND WIRES THROUGH PARALLEL ROWS OF THE CORES, AFTER WHICH THE WIRES ARE HELD IN TENSION WHILE THE NEEDLES ARE RETRACTED, LEAVING THE WIRES THREADED THROUGH THE CORES, AND THE WIRES ARE CUT ADJACENT THE PROXIMAL EDGE OF THE ARRAY. MEANS ARE PROVIDED FOR SUPPORTING THE NEEDLES AGAINST DEVIATION FROM THEIR ASSIGNED PATHS DURING RECIPROCATION, FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLAMPING AND RELEASING THE WIRES RELATIVE TO THE CARRIAGE, AND FOR MINUTE RELATIVE DISPLACEMENT OF PORTIONS OF THE ARRAY TRANSVERSELY OF THE NEEDLE PATH AND FOR ANGULAR AND VERTICAL ADJUSTMENT OF THE ARRAY.

Inventors

• 👤 John A Raickle

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