| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 266048000 | MEANS FOR CUTTING SOLID METAL WITH HEAT, E.G., BLOWPIPES | 24 |
| 20080265472 | EXOTHERMIC CUTTING TORCH - A consumable thermal torch for cutting through materials includes a first elongated generally cylindrical member adapted to receive an associated supply of oxygen into a first end and react with the oxygen at a second end. A second member has a hollow profiled similarly adapted to receive an associated supply of oxygen into a first end and react with the oxygen at a second end. The second member is received radially within the first member and is substantially axially coextensive therewith. At least one first gas flow passage is formed radially between the second member and the first member. At least one second gas flow passage is formed within the hollow profile of the second member and extends from the first end of the second member to the second end of the second member. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20100059908 | THERMAL ENERGY MACHINE WITH INTERCHANGEABLE COMPONENTS FOR PROCESSING DIFFERENT SIZED PARTS - A thermal energy machining (“TEM”) machine is designed with interchangeable components for processing different sized parts within a single frame. The frame weldment includes a base, an upper mounting plate and intermediate mounting plates. In one embodiment, a TEM machine for processing short parts includes a ram cylinder directly secured to the base, a chamber spacer directly secured to the upper mounting plate and a thermal chamber directly secured to the chamber spacer. In another embodiment, a TEM machine for processing long parts includes a thermal chamber directly secured to the upper mounting plate, a ram spacer directly secured to the base, and a ram cylinder directly secured to the ram spacer. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20110156325 | Numerically Controlled Tool Holding Device for Blast Machining - The invention relates to a numerically controlled tool-holding device for jet/beam cutting. It is a device designed specifically for the requirements of jet/beam cutting of thick, plate-shaped components, and it is to be understood as a component of a gantry-type, robot-like machine. With the aid of this device it is possible to change the orientation of the jet/beam-producing tool ( | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120168996 | UNIVERSAL CUTTING TORCH AND CUTTING TORCH HEAD - A universal cutting torch is provided which has a cutting torch head with a universal cavity capable of accommodating any one of a plurality of different torch tips manufactured for different cutting torches having different cavity configurations. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120313299 | APPARATUS FOR METAL CUTTING AND WELDING - A device for either or both of metal cutting and metal welding. The device is configured to a standard service side arm and other guns and/or other types of tools to cut and/or weld metals for the purposes of breaching and welding metals in a range of applications, including in air and underwater, without degrading the primary purposes of the gun or other tools. In one embodiment, the device includes a reactive material cartridge and a nozzle adapted for attachment to a muzzle. In another embodiment, the device includes a muzzle-loading tube including the reactive material and a nozzle configured to shape the reactive material exiting the tube. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130038001 | Nozzle for Cutting Steel Workpieces and Workpieces Made of Iron Alloys - The invention relates to a nozzle ( | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130119588 | CUTTING AND WELDING TORCH - A cutting and welding torch includes a base. The base is provided with a chamber. Oxygen and a fuel gas are introduced and mixed in the chamber. A mixing pipe is connected to the chamber. The other end of the mixing pipe is connected to a burner nozzle. The interior of the chamber is provided with a check ring. Both sides of the check ring are provided with a sealing gasket respectively. The check ring is made into a hollow cylindrical body by powder alloys. The inside of one end of the mixing pipe adjacent to burner nozzle is provided with a guiding piece. The guiding piece is an elongate metallic piece and twisted to form a spiral piece. A mixed gas of the oxygen and the fuel gas flows along a spiral path of the guiding piece. By this arrangement, a backfire is prevented and the efficiency in operation is increased. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130300039 | UNIVERSAL HEAD-MIX SWIRL INJECTOR FOR GAS TORCH - A head-mix swirl injector for gas torches. The swirl injector may include an injector body adapted to be disposed in a head of the torch. The injector body may define a swirl baffle, an injector orifice in fluid communication with the swirl baffle, and a mixing chamber in fluid communication with the injector orifice. The swirl injector may further include at least one gas port extending from the mixing chamber to an exterior of the injector body. The mixing chamber may have a larger diameter than the injector orifice. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20140145380 | Torch Tip Protector - A torch tip protector is elastically retained to an oxyacetylene cutting torch tip during transport. The torch tip protector in the preferred embodiment has a protector cap having a generally disc-shaped base and a truncated conical side wall that together form a cup or thimble-shaped torch tip cover. This torch tip cover operatively encompasses a torch tip and thereby operatively blocks access and fouling of the torch tip. To ensure that the protector cap stays engaged with torch tip, a hook secures to and is manually removable from at least one of the torch gas lines. A spring couples to the hook and couples with the protector cap to provide an elastic tension force that draws the protector cap towards hook and thereby secures the protector cap onto the torch tip. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140291900 | Nozzle System for a Cutting Torch for Autogenous Torch-Cutting with a Sleeve-Like Pipe Jacket for Drawing in Outside Air - The invention relates to a nozzle system ( | 10-02-2014 |
| 20150069676 | EXOTHERMIC CUTTING BLADE - An improved sacrificial exothermic cutting blade to be coupled to a standard oxygen exothermic cutting torch to cut material on land and under water. The improved cutting rod includes a semi-flattened outer tube and a plurality of consumable fuel rods or wires running longitudinally through the outer tube. The semi-flattened outer tube of the cutting blade includes a pair of opposing relatively flat sides ideal for cutting relatively wide kerfs and a substantially flat top and bottom ideal for cutting narrower kerfs. By virtue of the semi-flattened outer tube and the closely packed and tightly sealed fuel wires surrounded thereby and running therethrough, flare outs, fluttering, side burns and wire stub outs can be more reliably avoided than in conventional cutting rods having cylindrical outer tubes. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150145185 | Torch guide for metal cutting - The torch guide encloses a structural metal section to be cut on four sides of that metal section. The cutting torch guide has co-planar top and bottom guiding surfaces and parallel first and second side guiding surfaces. The top and bottom guiding surfaces intersect the first and second side guiding surfaces at four points lying in a same plane. All four guiding surfaces being aligned perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the structural metal section to be cut, for guiding a cutting torch around the entire structural metal section to be cut. The top and bottom guiding surfaces are adjustable at angle of 90° to 45° from the longitudinal axis, while maintaining the alignment of all four guiding surfaces along a planar cutting plane through the structural metal section to be cut. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150360312 | BACKFIRE PREVENTING GAS CUTTING APPARATUS - Provided is a backfire preventing gas cutting apparatus for cutting a workpiece by heating the workpiece using a preheating flame and injecting cutting oxygen and comprises: a nozzle bundle which is coupled with a valve bundle wherein the nozzle bundle comprises: a tip having a flame outlets formed at the front end thereof; and a head frame coupled with the tip. An injecting unit is formed on the inside of the head frame for enabling the laminar flow of the fuel gas through the injecting flow path by increasing a flow rate of the preheating oxygen introduced into the injecting flow path. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20160052075 | Nozzle For Cutting Steel Workpieces - The invention relates to a nozzle ( | 02-25-2016 |
| 266050000 | Means for cutting continuously cast workpieces | 1 |
| 20100327497 | Oxygen Strand Cutting Machine - An oxygen strand cutting machine for flame-cutting cast cold and hot slugs, steel blocks and slabs in and after continuous steel casting units comprising: a crane tower; and a boom erected perpendicularly to the continuous casting direction, whereon one or two torch carriages with flame cutters are perpendicularly movable with respect to the cast strand, wherein the crane tower is permanently fixed to the cast strand and includes an articulated arm horizontally pivoting in a set angular sector, on which the boom is rotatably and horizontally mounted, wherein the boom is movably connected to a lifting carriage movable along the articulating arm or the boom and the boom is fitted with roller bearings around which the boom is pivotable to be situated perpendicularly to the continuous casting direction during flame cutting via digital programming, and wherein the articulated arm simultaneously houses driving means, a cooling water supply, and power and control cables as a common line. | 12-30-2010 |
| 266054000 | With means for cutting tubular workpiece | 1 |
| 20150084247 | System and apparatus for ensuring a level cut of a pipe - In one embodiment, an apparatus for attachment to a pipe cutter having a saddle portion is disclosed comprising a first member suitable for mounting to the saddle portion, a second member suitable for mounting to a pipe and a pivoting joint to pivotally connect first member to second member. In another embodiment, an apparatus for attachment to a pipe cutter having a saddle portion is disclosed comprising a first member suitable for mounting to the saddle portion, a second member suitable for mounting to a pipe, a pivoting joint to pivotally connect first member to second member, pipe mounting means to securely mount second member to said pipe, angle adjustment means and at least one fastener to securely fasten first member to the saddle portion of the pipe cutter. | 03-26-2015 |
| 266058000 | With pattern control means | 1 |
| 266059000 | With tape-control means | 1 |
| 20120242015 | Bevel Head For Controlling A Cutting Torch To Cut Plate With Weld Preparation - A bevel head apparatus includes tilt, rotation, and vertical positioning with a cutting torch of a numerically controlled plate cutting machine. The apparatus has a back panel that attaches to the cutting machine and provides vertical movement of the cutting torch, a drive box coupled with the back panel houses electronics and mechanical components, an arm coupled to the drive box provides rotational movement of the cutting torch, and a pantograph coupled with the arm provides tilt movement to the cutting torch attached to the pantograph. Tilt, rotation, and vertical positioning of the cutting torch is controlled by the electronics and mechanical components. The bevel head apparatus also include a laser for measuring distance to determine and control a height of the cutting torch above the flat plate. | 09-27-2012 |
| 266067000 | With wheeled carriage torch mount | 1 |
| 266069000 | With work-spanning torch mount | 1 |
| 20090200714 | CUTTING APPARATUS - A cutting apparatus is disclosed. The cutting apparatus includes, a rail, a body including a torch, a gas supplier, an arm carrying the torch, and wheels seated on the rail, to move in a direction intersecting an extension direction of the arm, an arm driver including an arm driving motor to move the arm in the extension direction of the arm, a wheel driver including a wheel driving motor to rotate the wheels, a fixing bar extending in an extension direction of the rail and having a bent upper end, and a body fixing unit including a fixing rod extending downwardly from the body, and a roller mounted to a lower end of the fixing rod such that the roller is positioned beneath the bent upper end of the fixing bar, the fixing rod being movable toward the body to cause the roller to be pressed against the rail. | 08-13-2009 |
| 266070000 | Circle cutter | 1 |
| 20150123324 | CIRCULAR BURNER DEVICE FOR CUTTING TORCH - A circular burner device comprising a cutting torch which includes a head, a tip, a valve, and a handle; a base bar which includes a first end and a second end; a U-shaped torch attachment at the first end of the base bar, where the U-shaped torch attachment receives the head of the cutting torch; a support bar fastened to the handle of the torch burner, where the support bar includes an opening along an entire length of the support bar; a slider at the second end of the base bar, where the slider includes a connection joint to attach to the second end of the support bar to the base bar; and a coupling fastening the support bar to the handle of the cutting torch, where the coupling slides within the opening in the support bar. | 05-07-2015 |
| 266072000 | With cantilevered arm torch support | 1 |
| 266073000 | Having carriage-supported cantilevered arm | 1 |
| 20090134555 | Steel Coil Cutting Apparatus and Method - A method of cutting a steel coil with an axial center located within a bore of the steel coil. The method comprises the steps of positioning a cutting apparatus near the axial center of the steel coil, utilizing an imaging device as a sensor that is attached to the cutting apparatus for detecting the axial center of the steel coil, and aligning the cutting apparatus to be co-axial with the axial center. The method further comprises the steps of providing the cutting apparatus with a cutting device, radially directing the cutting device, and axially cutting an entire length of the steel coil by activating the cutting device, and axially moving the cutting device through the bore of the steel coil from a first end of the steel coil to a second end of the steel coil. | 05-28-2009 |
| 266074000 | Having adjuvant material feed | 1 |
| 266075000 | Solid material | 1 |
| 20170232539 | SILENT ENTRY TORCHING AND OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM AND CONFIGURATION | 08-17-2017 |
| 266077000 | With torch mounting means | 3 |
| 20100072682 | MINI TORCH WITH TORCH HOLDER AND TORCH ADAPTER - An exothermic mini torch includes a torch holder assembly for holding a consumable thermal torch. The torch holder assembly includes a body defining a recess into which the consumable thermal torch is inserted. A passage is defined in the body having a first end fluidly connected to the gas source and a second end fluidly connected to the recess for delivering gas from the gas source to the consumable thermal torch. A filter is optionally disposed between the gas source and the consumable thermal torch adjacent the second end of the passage for filtering the gas and preventing backflow of the gas into the body. A seal is received in the recess and is optionally annularly disposed between an outer circumferential surface of the consumable thermal torch and a portion of the body forming the recess to direct the gas into the consumable thermal torch. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20110109022 | BEVEL HEAD ATTACHMENT FOR PLASMA AND OXY FUEL CUTTING MACHINES - A lightweight bevel head attachment for a torch cutting machine includes a horizontal support tray, a rotation assembly mounted under the support tray, a tilt assembly coupled to the rotation assembly for rotation therewith about a vertical axis, a torch holder carried and pivoted by the title assembly, and a rack-and-pinion lift assembly having a mounting plate for attachment to the cutting machine carriage. The tilt assembly includes a pair of link arms housing a pulley system for transmitting pivotal motion at an input shaft to an output shaft on which the torch holder is mounted. The bevel head attachment can provide bevel angles in a range of about ±75 degrees. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20130264752 | CUTTING APPARATUS WITH TWO TORCHES - A cutting apparatus embodying the principles of the present invention includes first and second cutting torches which can be selectively operated, depending upon the nature and thickness of a workpiece which is being cut. The cutting apparatus includes a pivotally moveable torch mounting plate on which each of the first and second torches is mounted, with the mounting plate in turn being rotatably moveable about a vertical main axis of the apparatus. The present apparatus provides significant savings, in that two individual torches, such as an oxy-acetylene gas torch and a plasma torch, and can be mounted on the same mechanism for positioning to produce bevel and vertical cutting in materials having different thicknesses and/or cutting requirements at a significant savings in machine complexity. | 10-10-2013 |
