Horizontal wire feed spool delivery system
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsMark Beschta, Erik Brown
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Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods for feeding welding wire for welding-type applications. The wire-feeder system comprises a base platform, a spool hub, a drive roll assembly, and a wire guide assembly. The spool hub can be mounted to the base platform perpendicular to the base platform and configured to support a wire spool. The drive roll assembly can be mounted to the base platform, and having one or more sets of drive rollers configured to feed wire from the wire spool toward a welding torch. The wire guide assembly can be mounted to the base platform separately from both the wire spool and the drive roll assembly.
Claims21
A wire-feeder system comprising:
- a base platform, wherein the base platform comprises a plurality of supports to support a second wire-feed system above the base platform;
- a spool hub mounted to the base platform perpendicular to the base platform and configured to support a wire spool;
- a drive roll assembly mounted to the base platform, and having one or more sets of drive rollers configured to feed wire from the wire spool toward a welding torch;
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- a wire guide assembly mounted to the base platform separately from both the wire spool and the drive roll assembly, the wire guide assembly configured to guide the wire from the wire spool supported on the spool hub to the one or more sets of drive rollers.
A method for configuring a wire-feeder system in a welding-type system, the method comprising:
- loading a wire spool to a spool hub mounted to a base platform, wherein the spool hub is perpendicular to the base platform;
- passing welding wire from the wire spool to a wire guide assembly that is separate from the wire spool, wherein the wire guide assembly comprises a first guide feature having a first wire pass-through and a second guide feature having a second wire pass-through;
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- driving the welding wire from the wire guide assembly to a welding torch via a drive roll assembly having one or more sets of drive rollers.
A wire-feeder system comprising:
- a base platform;
- a spool hub mounted to the base platform perpendicular to the base platform and configured to support a wire spool;
- a drive roll assembly mounted to the base platform, and having one or more sets of drive rollers configured to feed wire from the wire spool toward a welding torch, wherein each drive roller of the one or more sets of drive rollers is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation that is perpendicular to the base platform;
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- a wire guide assembly mounted to the base platform separately from both the wire spool and the drive roll assembly, the wire guide assembly configured to guide the wire from the wire spool supported on the spool hub to the one or more sets of drive rollers, wherein the wire guide assembly comprises a first guide feature having a first wire pass-through and a second guide feature having a second wire pass-through.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.