ASSEMBLY OF TERMINALS TO BOBBINS

Elongated terminals are manufactured as a continuous strip made up of four side-by-side parallel columns of end-to-end connected terminals, these columns of terminals defining successive rows of side-by-side terminals, each row being separated from the next adjacent row by a transversely extending slug strip. A plurality of terminals are assembled to a bobbin or the like by feeding the strip until the leading ends of the leading row of terminals extend through a flange of the bobbin. The leading row, and the slug strip integral with the trailing ends of the terminals in the leading row, is severed from the next adjacent row of terminals. This slug strip remains integral with the inserted terminals until further forming operations are carried out and functions to maintain alignment of the terminals in the bobbin during these forming operations. The subsequent forming operations, in the disclosed embodiment, comprise the steps of bending the leading ends of the terminals through an angle of 90 DEG until they lie in a plane of the flange of the bobbin. The terminals are thereafter staked to the bobbin flange and the slug strip is then severed from the trailing ends of the terminals.