Apparatus for wiring core memory cores

Claim 2

Apparatus for wiring a series of apertured cores positioned so that a predetermined axis passes through the aperture in each core, the apparatus comprising means establishing a path of translational motion for a magnetic needle having a wire attached thereto, which path is exteNded in the direction of said axis to provide for translation of the needle serially through the apertures in the cores, and magnetic means including said cores for guiding the needle into a position adjacent one side of the apertures of the series of cores as the needle is translated through said apertures.

Claim 3

Apparatus as defined in claim 1 in which the means establishing the needle path comprises a shuttle for the needle and means for guiding the shuttle in a path extended in the direction of said predetermined axis.

Claim 4

Apparatus as defined in claim 1 in which the means establishing the needle path comprises a shuttle having a groove for receiving the needle and having magnetic means for holding the needle in said groove and means for guiding the shuttle in a path extended in the direction of said predetermined axis.

Claim 5

Apparatus as defined in claim 2 and further including a guide device for the needle positioned adjacent an end of the series of cores being wired, said guide device having a needle receiving groove extended in the direction of said predetermined axis, and magnetic means for retaining the needle in the groove of the guide device.

Claim 6

Apparatus for wiring memory cores comprising: a core patch, said core patch comprising a plurality of magnetic cores temporarily mounted on positioning means such that the cores are vertically positioned and have apertures therein axially aligned in plural directions to thereby enable needles of magnetically susceptible material to be readily threaded through the apertures of said cores from said plural directions, the improvement comprising various mechanical means for facilitating the threading of the cores including first guide means positioned transverse to the path of a first set of needles for threading the cores in a first axial direction, said first guide means being effective to guide said needles with wires attached thereto to one side of the apertures of the cores in the vicinity of said first guide means, and second guide means positioned transverse to the path of a second set of needles for threading said cores in a second axial direction, said second guide means being effective to guide said second set of needles with wires attached thereto to another side of the apertures of cores in the vicinity of said second guide means whereby all of said second set of needles pass through said apertures in contact with said another side of said apertures and on a common side of said first set of needles.

Claim 7

Apparatus for wiring memory cores comprising: a core patch, said core patch comprising a plurality of magnetic cores temporarily mounted on positioning means such that the cores are vertically positioned and have apertures therein axially aligned in plural directions to thereby enable needles of magnetically susceptible material to be readily threaded through the apertures of said cores from said plural directions, the improvement comprising various mechanical means for facilitating the threading of the cores including first guide means positioned transverse to the path of a first set of needles for threading the cores in a first axial direction, said first guide means being effective to guide said needles with wires attached thereto to one side of the apertures of the cores in the vicinity of said first guide means, and second guide means positioned transverse to the path of a second set of needles for threading said cores in a second axial direction, said second guide means being effective to guide said second set of needles with wires attached thereto to another side of the apertures of cores in the vicinity of said second guide means whereby all of said second set of needles pass through said apertures in contact with said another side of said apertures and on a common side of said first set of needles.

Claim 8

The apparatus of claim 5 wherein said needles and said cores are aligned with respect to each other such that once the first needle threads the first aperture the balance of the needles are so positioned with respect to the apertures of the corresponding cores of the core patch to be threaded that said balance of the needles are readily threaded therethrough.