| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 219137420 |
Having gas flow limiting shape (e.g., gas diffuser)
| 17 |
| 219137440 |
Having integral electrode guide
| 17 |
| 219137610 |
Having filler electrical contact structure
| 12 |
| 219137630 |
Having supply connection means (e.g., quick disconnect)
| 10 |
| 219137620 |
Having cooling means
| 8 |
| 219137410 |
Having fume extractor | 4 |
| 20090184099 | Compressed Air Welding Fume Shield System and Method - In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus for shielding welding fumes includes a device configured to engage a welding gun. The device is configured to emit a flow of air through the one or more orifices. The flow of air is operable to divert welding fumes away from a welder. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090321403 | Robotic welder having fume extraction - A method for extracting fumes from a robotic welder is disclosed. The method includes controlling a robotic welder to produce a weld and extracting fumes produced by the robotic welder via a vacuum source. The method also includes selectively varying the vacuum source as a function of the position of the robotic welder. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20140042141 | Method for Weld Removal, Cutting, and Gouging With Vacuum Removal of Byproducts - A method for metalworking using an adjustable vacuum and support system for evacuating particulate matter, smoke, excess gas, and molten metal from a work area during welding and for providing adjustable support to a welding head. The vacuum system has a vacuum head and a vacuum nozzle. An adjustable mounting bracket has a first portion fixed to the vacuum head and a second portion securable to the welding head. The bracket arrangement establishes pivotal and slidable couplings between the welding head and the vacuum head. The vacuum nozzle has a support surface for being rested on a surface of a workpiece to support the vacuum head and the welding head. The support surface can be a base bevel surface at the tip of the nozzle, and an opposed suction bevel surface can have a nozzle aperture interposed therealong. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140209589 | GUIDED COMPONENT EXTRACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A component extraction system is designed to remove smoke and airborne components, such as particulate, from a metal working or other application. The system may be compatible with a cart-type base unit or may be incorporated into a fixed or semi-fixed installation that uses a nozzle disposed on a carriage to remove workspace air (e.g., containing smoke and airborne components) away from the metal working application. The carriage may travel along a guide rail disposed adjacent to the metal working application in order to place the nozzle near the source of the metal working components. Further, the carriage may include a positioning system, utilizing sensors, to automatically adjust the location of the nozzle proximate the airborne component source. | 07-31-2014 |
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| 20090032514 | WIRE FEED CONTROL ASSEMBLY - A wire feed assembly and torch and welding systems are disclosed. The wire feed assembly includes a motor drivingly connected to at least one roll of a pair of rolls. A controller is connected to the motor and is constructed to control the operation thereof. A knob is rotatably connected to the controller and facilitates an operator's adjustment of the controller. A collar is disposed between knob and the controller and is fixedly connected to the controller and engaged by the knob to resist movement of the knob and thereby adjustment of the controller. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090039066 | NECK FOR A ROBOTIC WELDING TORCH - A neck for a welding torch includes a rigid, non-tubular, elongated member having opposite first and second ends. The first end is connectable to a rear portion of the welding torch. The second end is connectable to a welding tip portion of the welding torch. The member locates and holds the welding tip portion in a precisely given location, and does not communicate welding power, welding wire, shielding gas, or cooling water between the first and second ends. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090107971 | Method for Cleaning a Contact Tube of a Welding Torch, as Well as a Welding Torch and a Contact Tube - The invention relates to a method for cleaning a contact tube ( | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090152254 | CONTROL ASSEMBLY FOR A WELDING GUN - A welding gun includes a control switch combined with a trigger. The control switch features a slide movable to at least first and second positions. In an operating mode, the control switch switches between two differing sets of welding parameters in the first and second positions. In another operating mode, the control switch operates a safety lock-out, allowing activation of the welding gun by the trigger in one position and preventing activation in the other position. For operator convenience, the control switch may be positioned to slide transversely relative to the wire passageway of the weld gun with which the trigger is generally aligned. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090242535 | WIRE FEEDING UNIT - A wire feeding unit for feeding a welding wire in a torch cable of a welding robot, the torch cable passing through the inside of an upper arm in its direction, includes a body member, which is mounted on an inner periphery of the upper arm in a state of being freely pivotable around the axis of the upper arm, and to which the torch cable is installed, and a feed roller mounted to the body member in a state of being freely rotatable around an axis orthogonal to the axis of the arm. Here, the welding wire exposed out of the torch cable is in contact with the circumferential surface of the feed roller and is fed by the rotation of the feed roller in a direction of the axis of the upper arm. According to the configuration like this, when an arm is pivoted, the torch cable passing through the arm is able to be prevented from being twisted. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090277891 | Pistol grip handle attachment for mig welding gun - A welding gun attachment which converts a straight grip handle of a mig gun to a pistol grip handle. The pistol grip handle trigger is mechanically linked to the straight grip handle trigger so that movement of the pistol grip trigger causes corresponding movement of the straight grip trigger. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100096374 | ROTATING WELDING GUN HANDLE TO ACHIEVE TRIGGER-UP OR TRIGGER-DOWN ORIENTATION - An invention is provided which comprises a welding gun assembly having a handle portion which is rotatable with respect to a fume tube assembly and a hose assembly to which it is coupled. The gun assembly employs a locking collar to secure the fume tube assembly to the handle portion which allows the handle portion to be positioned in any positioned within 360 degrees of a normal position, without the need for reconfiguring any other portion of the gun assembly. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100096375 | AUTOMATIC WIRE FEEDING SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for feeding welding wire, where the apparatus contains a wire feeding device which pays out a wire and a power source which provides a current and voltage to the wire while it is being paid out. The apparatus further includes a detection circuit which detects a short circuit in the wire when the wire makes contact with a work piece or the like, and upon detection of the short circuit the wire feeding device stops feeding the wire so that a desired stick out distance is achieved. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100147819 | Self-Cleaning Welding Nozzle - A self-cleaning GMAW nozzle characterized by the inner surface thereof having a laminate group, preferably composed of sequentially alternating layers of metal and bonding material. Over a period of time of welding, welding spatter begins to accumulate upon an outermost metal layer of the laminate group. As the heat of welding proceeds over this same time, the adhesion of the adjoining bonding layer releases, whereby the outermost metal layer detaches, exposing a clean, new outermost metal layer. The process sequentially repeats until all metal layers have detached. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100276407 | CONDUIT - A conduit constructed from a coiled wire having an oval or elliptical cross-sectional shape. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110073581 | WELDING CONTACT TIPS FOR PULSE APPLICATIONS - A contact tip for a welding torch includes a body having a front discharge end, an opposite rear feed end, and a bore extending through the body. A cap is mounted on the body at the front end. The cap has an aperture generally aligned with the bore. The cap is composed of a material having an electrical conductivity between 1.74×10 | 03-31-2011 |
| 20120031887 | WELDING GUN - A welding gun is provided that can achieve both a size reduction and increase in pressure using a servo motor. The welding gun ( | 02-09-2012 |
| 20140034627 | WELDING WIRE FEED SYSTEM AND METHOD - In one embodiment, a system is provided with a welding wire feeder that includes a first wheel having a first rotational direction, and a second wheel having a second rotational direction opposite from the first rotational direction. The first and second wheels are disposed compressively about a wire feed region, and the first and second wheels are drivingly coupled together to output substantially equal tangential speeds in the wire feed region. In addition, the first wheel, or the second wheel, or both the first and second wheels comprise a drive wheel directly coupled to a gear without separately coupling both the drive wheel and the gear to a shaft. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140076874 | JUMP LINER FOR PUSH-PULL MIG TORCH - A jump liner for a push-pull MIG welding torch includes an elongated tubular body having front and back ends. The tubular body is made of a flexible plastic material. A front adapter is disposed at the front end of the tubular body. The front adapter is fittable in a retaining head of the torch. A back adapter is disposed at the back end of the tubular body. The back adapter is fittable in a gooseneck or body block of the welding torch. The front adapter provides sealing between the jump liner and the retaining head to prevent back flow leakage of shielding gas, and the front adapter prevents deformation of the tubular body at elevated temperatures. The back adapter provides sealing between the jump liner and the gooseneck or body block. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140083990 | MIG- OR MAG-WELDING GUN - The invention relates to a MIG- or MAG-welding gun, comprising a hand-held grip for supporting, handling and aiming the welding gun during a welding process, the grip including a body member ( | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140097166 | WELDING TORCH WITH A TORCH HOUSING AND DRIVE FOR WELDING ROD TRANSPORT - A welding torch includes a torch housing and, preferably, a tube bend fastenable thereto. A drive unit for feeding a welding wire is arranged in the torch housing and is formed by at least a drive roller and a pressure roller, as well as a drive motor. Part of the torch housing is designed as a component of the drive unit. A rotor, in particular a motor shaft, of the drive motor is fastened to the torch housing via a bearing or bearings to stabilize and position the rotor. A welding wire feed drive motor includes bearings, a rotor, in particular a motor shaft and a rotor winding or rotor magnets, and a stator pack, in particular stator winding or stator magnets. At least a part of the motor shaft, in particular the retention zone of a drive roller, is electrically insulated from the stator housing or base body. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140231401 | TIG Rod Feeder - It is an improved alternative device for welding, comprised of a stainless steel attachment for a cordless motorized driver, with optional extended accessory for greater adjustability. The driver includes a grooved rubber roller, whose rotation feeds a rod in a forward or backward motion, controlled by pressing the corresponding starter buttons for the driver's motor. The attachment is composed of a support ring bracket, connecting a fixed track, and adjustable track. The latter can be adjusted as desired, with the former used as support for stabilizing the rod as it is fed. The driver is designed to comfortably fit an adult hand, and power the feeding process by rotating the driver shaft, on which the rubber roller is fixed. It is an improvement for its ease of use, eliminating the restricted entry in the field, by allowing beginners to safely and efficiently weld. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140263249 | CAMERA AND WIRE FEED SOLUTION FOR ORBITAL WELDER SYSTEM - The invention described herein generally pertains to a system and method related to a camera device and wire guide system that includes a bracket for a wire guide and a camera device, wherein the bracket aligns the camera device to aim on a position of a welding zone for an orbital welding system. In particular, the bracket supports a wire guide to be positioned on a welding zone while also supporting a camera device that can be positioned on the welding zone. The bracket enables the welding zone to be captured by the camera device and is centered on the wire guide to remain positioned on the welding zone. The bracket provides placement of a camera device to provide video/camera visibility of the welding zone while allows adjustment of the camera device with wire location adjustment or independent of wire location adjustment. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140374400 | WELDING TORCH - A welding torch is provided. The welding torch includes an insulating cup removably attached to a head portion of the welding torch. The insulating cup is configured to receive an electrode. The welding torch includes a grounding collar for a contact tip. The grounding collar is attached after the insulating cup and provided around the head portion of the welding torch. The grounding collar is configured to position the contact tip in angular relation to the electrode. The welding torch further includes a body extending from the grounding collar. The body is configured to have a substantially linear configuration. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150069039 | MOUNT FOR A WELDING GUN FOR CONNECTING SAID WELDING GUN TO AN ARM OF A WELDING ROBOT - A mount for connecting a welding gun to a welding robot's arm. An articulated joint is provided between two rigid elements of the mount. The joint includes a sleeve securable to a first element. A first bore is provided on the second element. The sleeve is inserted into the bore. The bore's inner diameter and the sleeve's outer diameter are such as to allow the second element to turn with the first bore relative to the sleeve. An expansion element provided in the interior of the sleeve is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the sleeve. The expansion element has a central opening through which a tensioning bolt is passed. The bolt threadably engages a support element causing expansion of the sleeve, thereby causing the sleeve to seize around the circumference thereof in the bore. The expansion and seizing of the sleeve is neutralized by a release and stop. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150129570 | COLLAR ASSEMBLY FOR SECURING CONSUMABLES OF AN ARC WELDING APPARATUS - An arc welding apparatus includes a conductor tube assembly that has a collar assembly with a collar body that is biased by a spring. A consumable assembly is mechanically secured to the conductor tube and displaces the collar body and the collar body imparts a biasing force against the consumable assembly pretensioning the consumable assembly on the conductor tube assembly. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150298238 | ARC WELDING APPARATUS - Welding apparatus is provided in which welding rods are fed individually in a longitudinal direction along a welding feed path towards a welding site. A feed mechanism includes at least one, and generally two feed carriages ( | 10-22-2015 |
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