Automatic Terminal Ring Assembly Machine, 120 Press Cycles per Minute on Reel-Fed Terminals WM-3213

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The WM-3213 fits a ring onto a stamped terminal without an operator at the station. Terminals arrive on their carrier strip from a pay-off reel, a vibratory bowl orients loose rings and queues them down a feed rail, and a 2-ton press seats one ring per terminal at up to 120 cycles per minute — then the strip carries the finished terminals on to the take-up reel. Every step in the cycle, from material lifting and pressing to ring delivery, ring fitting, riveting and the clearing air blast, is timed in milliseconds on the touchscreen. The machine runs from a single-phase 220 V socket and occupies 500 × 860 × 1,360 mm.

Specifications

Key features

• Reel in, reel out — the terminals never leave their carrier strip, so a ringed reel drops straight into the applicator on your crimping press with no loose-part handling in between
• One vibratory bowl does the fiddly half of the job — loose rings are oriented, queued on the feed rail and delivered one at a time, which is the operation that eats an assembler's day when it is done with tweezers
• Every phase has its own timer on the screen — material lifting, material pressing, ring delivery, ring fitting, riveting, reset and air blow are each set in milliseconds, so the cycle is tuned to your ring instead of the ring being forced to suit the machine
• 2-ton press with a 35 mm slider stroke and 26 mm closing height, adjustable through 10 mm — the same press class used for terminal applicators, so the seating force is repeatable rather than hand-felt
• Runs on a single 220 V / 50 Hz socket and draws under 400 W in total; at 140–170 kg it stands on a shop floor without foundations
• Bowl tooling, feed rail and assembly head are cut for one terminal-and-ring family at a time and built from your samples

What it processes

• Stamped terminals that need a separate ring fitted over the contact body before crimping — as pictured, a bright metal ring seated on the receptacle of a female terminal on a continuous carrier strip
• Automotive and appliance connector programs where the ringed terminal has to be delivered back on the reel for automatic crimping downstream
• Terminal makers and harness plants replacing a bench of operators who fit rings by hand, where the scrap comes from missed, tilted or half-seated rings
• Any reel-fed stamped part that takes one small ring per piece at volume, where the ring is the only added component

Suited for: fitting one loose ring onto every terminal on a reel, automatically, at press speed — terminal in on the strip, ring from the bowl, terminal back onto the strip.

Not suited for: crimping a terminal onto wire. This machine assembles a component onto the terminal and never touches a conductor; for pressing terminals onto wire from an applicator, the 2-ton WM-3102T low-noise terminal crimping machine takes OTP and 2000# applicators on the same 2-ton press class. Also not suited for: rubber wire seals, which slide onto the stripped wire rather than onto the terminal — those belong to the WM-377 double-end wire seal insertion and crimping machine for AWG 28–16 at 3,000 pcs/hour, or to the WM-3140FS double wire seal insertion and crimping machine for 0.2–2.5 mm² wire with seals up to φ10 × 10. And not suited for: rubber O-rings dropped into a groove on a moulded or machined body, which is a different assembly problem with different tooling — the fully automatic WM-9312 O-ring assembly machine with oiling station runs those at around 3,600 pcs/hour, and the benchtop WM-9314 semi-automatic O-ring assembly machine covers bench quantities at about 1,000 pcs/hour.

What to send us before you ask for a price

This is a single-purpose machine, so a catalogue number tells us almost nothing. What decides feasibility is the pair of parts: a length of your terminal strip on its carrier, and a handful of the rings. From those we can tell whether the ring will orient reliably in a bowl — the usual make-or-break point — what the head has to look like, and what the cycle timers need to be. The parts are run on the actual machine and you get the result before you commit.