Advancing material of indeterminate length – By orbitally traveling material-engaging surface
Patent
1981-02-17
1982-08-17
Gilreath, Stanley N.
Advancing material of indeterminate length
By orbitally traveling material-engaging surface
219 60A, 226176, 226188, 226190, 226194, 226196, 242157R, B65H 5102
Patent
active
043445535
ABSTRACT:
A compact welding wire feed device is provided capable of being mounted directly on a welding head carriage. The device comprises a ball bearing having an inside race with tangential entrance and exit guides to the race adjacent to opposite axial ends of the bearing. A hub member has an outside diameter less than the inside diameter of the race so that the hub member can be coaxially received in the race and a welding wire passed through the entrance guide and wrapped around the hub and out the exit guide. By now side-loading or expanding the hub against the inside of the race and driving the hub rotationally, the welding wire is continuously fed out the exit guide. The coaxial relationship of the hub and race provides for a very compact structure thereby permitting mounting of the wire feed directly on a welding head carriage adjacent to a weld head or even permitting the feed wire itself to be used as an electrode in a MIG welding system. In certain applications, the bearing itself may be used without the hub simply to form a ninety degree bend in the weld wire with substantially no friction for proper positioning and guiding of the wire.
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Lesher Howard D.
Taff James T.
Dimetrics Inc.
Gilreath Stanley N.
Pastoriza Ralph B.
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