Electric heating – Metal heating – For bonding with pressure
Patent
1980-03-21
1982-10-26
Goldberg, Elliot A.
Electric heating
Metal heating
For bonding with pressure
219 861, B23K 1110
Patent
active
043563732
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an electrical resistance welding apparatus.
A resistance welding apparatus of this type is known by British Patent Specification No. 417,367, for example, which reveals a welding gun of C-type, the yoke of which is made of a hollow shell construction for the purpose of reducing the weight of the gun. It is extremely important that the weight of a portable welding device by kept low. The purpose of the present invention is to further reduce the weight of a welding apparatus of the type just mentioned, without reducing the other performance characteristics of the apparatus such as sturdy construction and slender design, so as to provide good access.
According to the invention, this is achieved with an electrical resistance welding apparatus which has the characteristics hereinafter set forth. By virtue of the fact that the coolant tubes are used for supplying current to the electrode, no separate conducting member or bridge is required. And due to the fact that two tubes conduct coolant to the electrode as well as returning it from the same, this saves the weight of the water volume in the interior of the yoke or arm.
According to an advantageous further development of the invention, the inner cavity of the yoke or arm is filled between its walls and the tubes with a light, sound-damping, reinforcing material, suitably foamed plastics. This filling can have multiple functions. Firstly, it can dampen the clanking or clattering noises usually accompanying work with welding machines with hollow yokes. Under certain unfavourable conditions, resonating sound phenomena can also occur during operation. Secondly, the filling reinforces the current and coolant tubes so that their joints or junctions are not subjected to such great stresses as a result of vibrations caused by electrical attractive forces. Thirdly, the filling reinforces the entire yoke so that it is more sturdy.
An embodiment of the invention is described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
FIG. 1 shows from the side an electrical welding gun of C-type and
FIG. 2 shows a section along the line II--II in FIG. 1.
The welding gun shown in FIG. 1 has a C-shaped yoke 1 and two jaws 2 and 3, respectively, each of which carries an electrode 4 and 5, respectively. Electrode 4 is the movable electrode and is mounted in a holder 6, which protrudes through an opening 7 in the yoke jaw 2. The end of the holder 6 facing away from the electrode 4 is movably guided in a pneumatically operated cylinder 8, which is fixed to the jaw 2 by means of screws 9.
Electrode 5 is stationary and is mounted in a holder 10, which via a clamp ring 11 is immovably connected to the yoke jaw 3.
The two electrodes 4 and 5 are liquid cooled, and for this purpose they are made with interior coolant ducts in a manner which is known per se. The coolant ducts of electrode 5 communicate with coolant ducts 12,13 in the electrode holder 10. These ducts at the lower end of the holder at the transition between the jaw 3 and the back of the yoke 1 are each joined to one of two copper tubes 14. The yoke 1 is made as a hollow shell construction of welded sheet metal. The tubes 14 extend through the hollow interior of the yoke back parallel to each other until reaching the wall of yoke jaw 2 farthest away from the electrode 5. The tubes 14 extend through this wall and are soldered securely to a connection plate 15 lying outside the wall. Coolant can be supplied thereto by means of hoses (not shown). The plate 15 is L-shaped and is screwed securely with its lower horizontal leg 16 to the underside of the yoke 1 with screws 17. The connection plate 15 also has a leg 18, to which one pole of a two-conductor current supply cable 19 is connected. With this arrangement, the current supply to the electrode 5 will flow from the cable 19 through the plate leg 18, the connecting plate 15, the two tubes 14 and the electrode holder 10. Thus the coolant tubes 14 in the interior of the yoke 1 have the double function of being current and coola
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Bertil Hass
Mattson Karl E.
AB Volvo
Goldberg Elliot A.
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