Wire feeding apparatus

Details Wire feeding apparatus Wire feeding apparatus

2002-09-11

2008-10-28

Cuomo, Peter M. (Department: 3654)

Advancing material of indeterminate length

By orbitally traveling material-engaging surface

Comprising rotary pinch pair

C226S190000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07441682

ABSTRACT:
The wire feeder apparatus according to the invention has a carrying body (12), tubular guide elements fixed in the openings on the two opposite sides of the body determining a straight-line path for welding wire, further, two spatially separated feed rolls (33, 34) with parallel axles and provided with grooves on their curved surface fitting to the path of wire. The feed rolls (33, 34) are pivotally fixed on the mounting plate of the carrying body and they are individually connected to a gear-wheel via interlocking connection. A pressure arm (14) is fixed to the carrying body (12) by a turning joint, which pressure arm carries two pinch rollers (43, 44) having parallel axles with the feed rolls. A fixing arm is connected to the body (12) by a turning joint, in its one position the fixing arm elastically presses the pressure arm (14) to the body (12) and keeps it in this position, in one extreme, closed position of the pressure arm (14) that can be fixed by the fixing arm the pinch rollers (43, 44) are pressed to the feed rolls (33, 34) and connected to the feed rolls (33, 34) via forced driving coupling, in the other extreme position of the pressure arm (14) the pinch rollers (43, 44) are detached from the feed rolls (33, 34), and the gear-wheel (22) is situated between the feed rolls (33, 34). The pinch rollers are mounted on a self-adjusting device (42) fixed to the pressure arm. The apparatus has a guide-pulley (50) fixed to the self-adjusting device (42) between the pinch rollers (43, 44) in a way that it can freely revolve, and there is a welding wire guiding groove (51) running around the surface of this guide-pulley (50), and in the losed position of the pressure arm this wire guiding groove (51) fits to the path of wire.

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