Inventors:
Roger T. Foster - Vestal NY
Frank J. Orzelek - Binghamton NY
Assignee:
Universal Instruments Corporation - Binghamton NY
International Classification:
B65G 4774
B65G 4782
B65G 4784
Abstract:
Electronic components, such as resistors with bodies of different lengths and axially protruding leads, are fed along a feed path and between a pair of rotating members. Each rotating member has fingers that are flexed away from the feed path for reception of the component bodies between cooperating fingers of the rotating members, after which these fingers close onto the bodies to center them on the feed path. An opposed pair of the flexible fingers, one from each rotating member, retain each component in a centered condition along the feed path until corresponding leads of consecutive components are taped together at a subsequent taping station to form a ladder-like belt of components.