Apparatus for bending and holding wire for wire end processing

A wire guide member is formed with a U-shaped curved guide surface along which a recessed wire guide groove is formed. A wire supplying device is disposed an appropriate distance away from one end of the wire guide groove, and a wire end stopper is disposed another appropriate distance away from the other end of the wire guide groove, respectively. Two wire push-in plates are interposed between the wire guide member and the wire supplying device and between the wire guide member and the wire end stopper, respectively so as to be movable up and down. Further, a wire holding member for clipping the bent wire is arranged at a position lower than the wire travel line determined by the wire supplying device and the wire guide groove, so as to be movable in a direction perpendicular to the wire feed direction. Therefore, the bent wire held by the wire holding member can be shifted to the succeeding process, without moving the wire guide member for bending the wire into U-shape, thus realizing a wire bending and holding apparatus simple in structure and small in size and dimension.