US3588081A - Wire-holding comb - Google Patents

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US3588081A
US3588081A US865116A US3588081DA US3588081A US 3588081 A US3588081 A US 3588081A US 865116 A US865116 A US 865116A US 3588081D A US3588081D A US 3588081DA US 3588081 A US3588081 A US 3588081A
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David Jopson Logan
Ronald B Webster
Robert Joseph Pavone
David Gilmer Richardson Jr
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
    • H01B13/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing conductors or cables
    • H01B13/012—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing conductors or cables for manufacturing wire harnesses
    • H01B13/01209—Details
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21F—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF METAL WIRE
    • B21F27/00—Making wire network, i.e. wire nets
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S269/00—Work holders
    • Y10S269/903—Work holder for electrical circuit assemblages or wiring systems
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/39—Cord and rope holders
    • Y10T24/3916—One-piece
    • Y10T24/3918—Wedge slot

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  • a conventional wire harness usually has a plurality of wires, many of which may be of different lengths and/or of different diameters resulting in a rather complex configuration.
  • each wire may have coded indicia printed thereon so that each wire can be individually layed up on a jig board of predetermined configuration, the procedure being repeated until all of the wires have been properly placed on the board.
  • electrical connectors can then be assembled at the appropriate locations and the harness removed and another assembly initiated on the jig board.
  • the jig board may be pro' vided with a comblike wire-holding device.
  • the present invention relates to an improved comb construction for use on such a jig board, and deals more particularly with a device which holds a plurality of-such wires firmly and positively in place, especially when the wires are layed up under tension as may be the case in automated machine for eliminating the tedious task of manually placing each wire on the board.
  • the primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved wire-holding device which will securely hold the wires adjacent their end portions so that these wires can be layed up under tension, and yet will not tend to slip out of the comb slots because of the unique comb construction adopted herein.
  • a device for use in conjunction with a jig board of the type used in making up wire harnesses comprising a base adapted for attachment to the jig board, a gate through which the wires are adapted to pass as for example in an automated machine for laying up wire harnesses, and a comb portion into which the wires are inserted by the machine, preferrably under tension.
  • the comb portion has a rigid portion and a portion of resilient backing material carried thereby both of which have aligned slots defined therein.
  • the slots in the backing material are somewhat narrower than those in the rigid portion so that tension in the wires after insertion tends to draw the backing material into the slots of the comb and thereby hold the wires in place by friction.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred form of wireholding device constructed in accordance with the present invention, showing several wires after they have been inserted in the comb portion thereof.
  • FIG. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken through the comb portion of the wire holding device shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 1 shows a wire-holding device constructed in accordance with the present invention and comprising a generally flat base which may be provided with pegs or the like on its bottom surface (not shown) to permit the device to be placed at a particular location on a jig board of the type commonly used in preparing or laying-up" wire harnesses.
  • While the device shown may be adapted for use in manually preparing wire harnesses, it is especially useful for operation in conjunction with an automated machine of the type wherein the wires are individually layed through guide means such as indicated generally at 12, and thence are deflected away from the infeed direction indicated generally by the arrow 14 so as to be inserted in a predetermined slot in the comb portion of the device, as indicated generally at 16.
  • the base portion 10 is fabricated from a relatively stiff or rigid material such as a rigid plastic or metal material.
  • the base 10 has an upstanding arcuate portion which forms a' rigid comb on the base and defines a plurality of upwardly open slots l8, 18 wide enough to loosely receive the various wires A, B, C, and D as best shown in FIG. 2 even in the case where such wires may vary somewhat in diameter.
  • This rigid comb extending upwardly from the base 10 is arcuately shaped so that the various slots 18, 18 are located equidistantly from the guide means 12 through which the various wires are layed prior to being inserted in the various slots.
  • comb shown and described herein is of arcuate shape, other shapes can be used to fill particular requirements. That is, a linear might be more advantageous where the wires are to-be attached to a linear terminal strip or the like.
  • the combdcfining portion 16 of the device further includes a strip or layer of resilient backing material 20, which may be secured adjacent to the convex outer surface of the rigid slot-defining portion of the comb by any suitable means, such as a cement or the like.
  • the resilient backing material 20 preferably comprises an elastomeric compound or the like.
  • the resilient strip 20 also defines a plurality of upwardly open slots each of which is aligned with a slot in the rigid comb and each of which has a width which is significantly less than that of its associated comb slot 18 to permit the slot defining areas 22, 22 of the resilient strip to be pulled into the somewhat wider comb slots l8, 18 by the tension in the wires A, B, C and D after they have been inserted in the appropriate slots by the apparatus for assembling the harness.
  • the actual configuration adopted by these resilient slot-defining areas 22, 22 by the tension in the various wires A, B, C and D is shown in FIG. 2, and it will be apparent from this view that these portions 22, 22 of the strip are in fact drawn into the larger slots l8, 18 in the rigid comb by the tension in the wires.
  • This holding force increases in direct proportion to the tension force used in laying up the harness, and it is an important feature of the present invention that the greater the pull on the wire, the greater the force exerted on the wire by the comb to hold it.
  • the guide means 12 used in orienting the wires prior to insertion in the comb may take any convenient shape
  • the shape adopted in FIG. 1 has been found especially useful in loosely retaining the bundle of wire for convenient assembly with a collar or other retaining device for permanent assembly in the resulting harness.
  • Other configurations for the guide means might be readily adopted for use on a comb of the type described herein.
  • possible configurations for such guide means might be the use of two or four upright posts without the inturned upper end portions shown. These inturned upper end portions do, however, represent the preferred form for the present embodiment. As shown in FIG.
  • the improvement comprising a device for holding several of these wires in separated fashion for identification or the like, said device including a base adapted for attachment to the jig board, an upstanding rigid comb on the base and defining a plurality of upwardly open slots wide enough to loosely receive these wires, a resilient strip coextensively disposed adjacent said rigid comb and also defining a plurality of upwardly open slots, said slotslin said resilient strip being aligned with those in said and each such strip slot having a width which is less than that of its associated comb slot to permit slot-defining areas of said resilient strip to be pulled into said wider comb slots by the tension of a wire inserted therein.
  • said device further includes guide means spaced from said comb for receiving and confining said wires in a bundle prior to the insertion thereof in said slots, and said comb being arcuate in shape so that said slots are equidistantly spaced from said guide means.

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US4513503A (en) * 1983-02-22 1985-04-30 Tekna Limited Wire cutting tool
USD284262S (en) 1983-02-24 1986-06-17 Ron Finley Spark plug wire harness
US4654967A (en) * 1984-09-06 1987-04-07 U.S. Philips Corporation Method and device for aligning and straightening flexible, insulated conductors
US4819386A (en) * 1987-07-20 1989-04-11 Northwestern Bell Corporation Optic fiber sanding fixture and method of using
US5797566A (en) * 1994-08-24 1998-08-25 Kyoshin Kogyo Co., Ltd. Wire holder and a wire holder assembly
US20090223041A1 (en) * 2008-03-06 2009-09-10 Tyco Healthcare Group Lp Wire Organizer
US20140191457A1 (en) * 2010-12-03 2014-07-10 Volex Plc Wire holder and method of terminating wire conductors
WO2023023246A1 (en) * 2021-08-20 2023-02-23 Vertiv It Systems, Inc. Wire comb

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US3859724A (en) * 1973-04-04 1975-01-14 Amp Inc Method and apparatus for manufacturing electrical harnesses
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US5205329A (en) * 1987-11-17 1993-04-27 Yazaki Corporation Wire harness and method of and apparatus for manufacturing the same
DE3838706C2 (de) * 1987-11-17 1994-02-24 Yazaki Corp Verfahren zum Herstellen eines Kabelbaumes und Vorrichtung zur Durchführung dieses Verfahrens

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US4513503A (en) * 1983-02-22 1985-04-30 Tekna Limited Wire cutting tool
USD284262S (en) 1983-02-24 1986-06-17 Ron Finley Spark plug wire harness
US4654967A (en) * 1984-09-06 1987-04-07 U.S. Philips Corporation Method and device for aligning and straightening flexible, insulated conductors
US4819386A (en) * 1987-07-20 1989-04-11 Northwestern Bell Corporation Optic fiber sanding fixture and method of using
US5797566A (en) * 1994-08-24 1998-08-25 Kyoshin Kogyo Co., Ltd. Wire holder and a wire holder assembly
US5950968A (en) * 1994-08-24 1999-09-14 Kyoshin Kogyo Co., Ltd. Wire holder and wire holder assembly
US20090223041A1 (en) * 2008-03-06 2009-09-10 Tyco Healthcare Group Lp Wire Organizer
US8342459B2 (en) * 2008-03-06 2013-01-01 Covidien Lp Wire organizer
US20140191457A1 (en) * 2010-12-03 2014-07-10 Volex Plc Wire holder and method of terminating wire conductors
WO2023023246A1 (en) * 2021-08-20 2023-02-23 Vertiv It Systems, Inc. Wire comb

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