Wire Stripper Clamp Device for Reliable Wire Retention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional adjustable one-hole wire stripper machines face challenges in retaining wires due to poor wire retaining capability, especially with thinner, softer, or slippery wires, leading to escape issues during cutting, as they lack effective restrictions at the critical plane perpendicular to the blade and V-shaped wire drive wheel axis.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a wire stripper machine clamp device featuring beveled rotary collars and additional clamps on both sides of the cutting blade, along with spacers to provide incremental spacing options, effectively clamping the wire at multiple points in the cutting plane, reducing the escape route and ensuring better wire retention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a V-shaped wire drive wheel is used in an adjustable one-hole stripper machine, then wire driving performance is improved, but wire retaining capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The wire retention function is segmented into five distinct clamping points: two clamps from the beveled collars, two clamps from the V-shaped wire drive wheel, and one clamp from the cutting blade. This segmentation allows each component to contribute specifically to wire retention while maintaining the adjustable one-hole design's wire driving performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges the wire clamping function into the existing wire driving components. The beveled collars and V-shaped wire drive wheel serve dual purposes: driving the wire through the machine and clamping/retaining the wire at the cutting plane. This eliminates the need for separate wire retention mechanisms while improving reliability.
2Reliability
If beveled rotary collars and additional clamps are added to create five-point clamping, then wire retaining capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The beveled collars and V-shaped wire drive wheel components perform multiple functions: they guide the wire, drive it through the machine, and clamp/retain it at the cutting plane. This multi-functionality achieves improved wire retention without adding separate dedicated clamping mechanisms, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of adding external wire retention devices to the simple adjustable one-hole stripper, the invention inverts the approach by enabling the existing drive components themselves to provide clamping force. The beveled collars and V-shaped wheel are designed to naturally clamp the wire through their geometry and rotational motion, achieving retention through the inverse of the conventional addition approach.
Data Source
AI summary
An insulated wire clamp device as disclosed for a wire stripper machine comprises a first beveled rotary collar on a first side of a shank and a second beveled rotary collar on a second side of the shank having a cutting blade there between. The collars comprise a first clamp and a second clamp of an insulated wire in a complementary V-shaped wire drive wheel. The wire drive wheel comprises a third and a fourth clamp of the wire on inner sides of the V-shaped wire drive wheel and the cutting blade comprises a fifth clamp of the wire in a cutting plane thereof. Shank spacers between the first collar and the rotary cutting blade and between the second collar and the rotary cutting blade add predetermined and incremental spacing options between three of the five clamps in the cutting plane of the insulated wire in the wire stripping machine.