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7520538 Orbital tube welding purge adaptor  
A purge gas introduction system for an orbital tube welding setup is provided, configured to inject high purity inert purge gas to the interior volume of a tube or tubular component. An o-ring is...
7518082 Method for arc welding of ductile cast iron  
A method for joining components made from ductile cast iron and made from ductile cast iron and steel, by arc welding with fusible electrodes under a gas blanket. The gas blanket comprises, in...
7462799 Welding shielding gas flow rate-limiting apparatus  
Welding shielding gas is often wasted because the welding operator sets flow rates excessively high. The flow rate limiting apparatus described can be added externally to a needle valve flow...
7429712 Gas system for welding-type devices  
A welding-type device and gas system for use therewith are disclosed. The gas system of the welding-type device includes a canister that is constructed to contain a shielding gas therein and is...
7423238 Gas system for wire feeding devices  
A wire feeder and gas system for use therewith is shown. The gas system of the wire feeder includes a canister that is constructed to contain a shielding gas therein and is connectable to the wire...
7411147 Gas bottle for welding-type devices  
A gas bottle for welding-type devices, a shielding gas system, and a method for providing shielding gas to a weld are disclosed. The gas bottle has a valve constructed to be connected to a...
7390988 Polyspecialistic medical-surgical electrowelding method for electrowelding titanium and alloys thereof  
The present invention relates to an electrowelding method for intraorally electrowelding titanium and alloys thereof, comprising the step of abutting the element to be electrowelded one against the...
7388170 Preparing a protective gas mixture for arc joining  
This invention provides a method for on-site production of a protective gas mixture for arc joining, in particular for arc welding. Gaseous argon is removed from a liquid argon supply and helium is...
7355141 Welder with integrated regulator  
A welder having an internal shielding gas regulator is disclosed. The welder has an internal gas cylinder and an internal regulator disposed in an enclosure. The welder may be equipped with an...
7307234 Protective gas supply device for electric arc joining  
A protective gas supply device for on-site supply of workplaces is provided, in which a liquid argon reservoir, a liquid oxygen reservoir or a liquid carbon dioxide reservoir, and a helium supply...
7297900 Bypass weld torch  
Methods of arc welding and an arc welding assembly comprise a power source configured to provide a welding current, and a single weld housing. The weld housing comprises a welding torch, which...
7246736 Supplying shielding gas  
A flexible articulate tubular device has a shank, a plurality of pivot rings, and a terminus with heat sensors and a fiber optic device. The flexible articulate tubular device is initially...
7244904 Metal-protective gas-joint with changeable polarity  
A method of gas-shielded metal arc joining using a consumable electrode having an alternating polarity (GMA-AC). A shielding gas containing helium is used to improve process stability and working...
7241971 Laser/arc hybrid welding process for ferritic steels  
A method and an apparatus for a hybrid laser beam and electric arc welding process. A laser beam, an electric arc, a shielding gas and a consumable welding wire are used to create a weld on a steel...
7241970 Ternary gas mixture which can be used in the braze welding of galvanized parts  
A method of brazing galvanized metal parts such as those used for motor vehicle elements or container components. The parts are joined together to create a brazed joint by using at least one...
7235758 MIG-plasma welding  
A welding system comprises a combined torch that includes a consumable electrode and a non-consumable electrode positioned so that their respective axes form an acute angle and so that arcs...
7220935 Welding torch and shield  
A welding torch ( 10 ) for welding on a component has an electrode ( 12 ) within a nozzle ( 14 ) through which a flow of gas passes. A shield ( 20 ) defines an enclosure ( 22 ) around the nozzle (...
7211765 Shielding gas and arc-welding method  
The invention relates to a shielding gas for use in the arc welding of metallic work pieces. The invention further relates to a process for the arc welding of metallic work pieces using consumable...
7189941 Process for making heterogeneous joints under shielding gas  
In joining heterogeneous materials that differ in their melting points, a shielding gas mixture with active gas content is utilized. In particular, the shielding gas mixture contains helium and...
7161109 Gas metal arc welding of coated steels and shielding gas therefor  
This invention relates to a method for gas metal arc welding of coated steels, and a shielding gas therefor, in which the method comprises: (a) forming an arc between a consumable wire...
7112358 Self-adhesive purge dam for retaining purge gas around a weld zone  
A self-adhesive purge dam for retaining purge gas around a weld zone includes a base configured to substantially obstruct an air passage leading to the weld zone and an adhesive skirt extending...
7109433 Method and apparatus for initiating welding arc using chemical spray  
Methods and apparatus for initiating an arc (e.g., a welding arc) by placing liquid droplets containing ions in the gap between an electrode and a workpiece. This is done while a potential...
7075033 Low cost titanium welding method  
Method of welding titanium using gas metal arc welding procedure where the shielding for the weld included torch shielding gas only and no trailing or backup shielding. The technique used here is a...
7071438 Gas composition for arc welding  
The disclosed invention is a composition and process for employing a shielding gas in arc welding. The disclosed composition includes oxygen in an amount between about 0.6% and about 1.9%, helium...
7067759 Metal working  
A method of working metal in which molten metal particles are ejected from, for example, a welding electrode or from a metal workpiece being cut or drilled. The ejected molten metal particles are...
7057137 Orbital welding internal pressure control  
The present invention is generally comprised of a tube adaptor, a chamber, a chamber pressure sensor, a calibration pressure sensor, an iris valve, an iris valve drive means, and a control and data...
7026569 Welding machine  
The inventive system and method allows the control of shielding gas in an electric welding apparatus having automatic wire feed by controlling the flow rate of the shielding gas as a function of...
7019248 Welding shielding gas flow-control device  
These shielding gas flow-control devices avoid weld start quality problems often created in typical GMAW systems. They accomplished this while maintaining the common high pressure gas delivery...
7015412 Welding shielding gas saver flow-control device  
This device significantly reduces a major reason for shielding gas waste in MIG welding. When welding is stopped, excess gas is stored in the hose transporting shielding gas to the solenoid located...
6998574 Welding torch with plasma assist  
An electric arc welding torch having a central conductive contact tube for electrical contact between a power source and a welding wire moving through the contact tube toward a workpiece, a...
6991748 Process for the production of a shielding gas mixture  
In a process for the production of a shielding gas mixture argon is withdrawn from a liquid argon supply, vaporized and mixed with a gas premix. The gas premix contains helium and/or argon and a...
6977358 Welder with integrated gas bottle  
A welder having an integrated gas cylinder is disclosed. The welder has a power source constructed to condition and output an electrical signal suitable to welding and a gas cylinder disposed in an...
6969818 Tandem welding shielding gases  
A shielding gas for gas shielded metal-arc welding or brazing with multiple (in particular 2) wire electrodes, one common melting bath, and multiple power sources. Such shielding gases contain, for...
6924460 Engine welder with shielding gas generation  
A liquid and gas separator to generate a shielding gas from the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine. The liquid and gas separator can be a separate portable component or a component that...
6855905 Flexible welding torch having restraining member to avoid overextension and method of assembling same  
A positionable welding torch for a welding system is featured. The torch comprises a torch head, a handle, and a flexible portion coupled to the torch head and the handle. The flexible portion is...
6844521 Device for a laser-hybrid welding process  
The invention describes an apparatus, in particular a laser hybrid welding head ( 1 ) for a laser hybrid welding process, in which a laser ( 4 ) or laser optics or an optical focussing unit and...
6809286 Shielding gas filter for welding apparatus  
A shielding gas filter that can be readily incorporated into a gas shielding system for an arc welding apparatus. The gas shielding filter is readily installed to the system upstream of a gas...
6716748 Reaction chamber for processing a substrate wafer, and method for processing a substrate using the chamber  
A reaction chamber for processing a substrate wafer is described. The reaction chamber has a wafer holder for receiving the substrate wafer, a convection plate, which is disposed above the wafer...
6706994 Welding torch assembly including quick connect fittings  
A welding torch assembly includes a torch body, a plurality of quick connect fittings and an elongated electrically insulated handle. The torch body includes a plurality of utility supply lines...
6683279 Twin MIG welding apparatus  
A dual-electrode arc welding apparatus includes a body assembly adapted to be coupled to a source of electric power and directing two wire electrodes through a nozzle assembly to an associated...
6675811 Method of and apparatus for increasing the permeability of wrappers of rod-shaped articles  
Apparatus for increasing the permeabilities of central portions of tubular wrappers which form part of successive filter cigarettes of double unit length being turned out by a tipping machine. The...
6660958 Arc welding method and apparatus  
A process and apparatus for welding a metal component to a metal workpiece. The component typically comprises a metal weld region and a threaded connector region and the apparatus includes a weld...
6653594 Consumable electrode gas shielded arc welding method and apparatus  
A gas having an arc current-voltage property that is different from a shielding gas is intermittently added to the shielding gas, an arc current is intermittently changed in proportion to an...
6649870 System and method facilitating fillet weld performance  
The present invention provides a welding system and methodology to facilitate an improved fillet weld. The system includes an arc welding subsystem providing a fillet weld that joins one or more...
6639183 Method for attaching parts together using gas metal arc welding  
A method for attaching parts together includes several steps. A metal-core consumable welding wire is obtained in one step. In another step, the parts (such as a ring and a base cup of a cylinder...
6634544 Method and arrangement for improving quality in fusion welding operations  
Arrangement for improving quality in fusion welding operations where protective gas is supplied to the welding point via a hose line. The arrangement comprises means ( 5, 6 ), such as a bypass line...
6630642 Welding apparatus for sleeves  
For arc welding a sleeve 3 to a workpiece surface 2, a sleeve holder 1 is surrounded by a field-former unit which contains a magnet coil 4, a magnetic flux return member 6 and a field...
6610957 Welding shielding gas saver device  
This device significantly reduces major reasons for shielding gas waste primarily in metal inert gas welding. Excess shielding gas stored at the end of each weld in the shielding gas delivery hose...
6596971 Process for the MIG welding of nickel and nickel alloys with a shielding gas based on argon and CO2  
Process for the MIG welding of nickel and nickel alloys, with the use of a gas shield for at least part of the welding zone, in which process the gas shield is a gas mixture containing from 0.05%...
6586708 Water vapor cooled nozzle used in the MIG and TIG arc welding process  
An improved welding apparatus, for use with a MIG apparatus, or a tungsten rod in a TIG apparatus. A nozzle housing, having an outer shroud, defines an airspace, which receives an injection of...