B23K 9/126
Controlling the spatial relationship between the work and the gas torch
Official title: {Controlling the spatial relationship between the work and the gas torch (between wire tip and piece B23K9/073)}
B23K9/126 (Controlling the spatial relationship between the work and the gas torch) appears on 94 US grants and 139 published applications in this corpus.
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