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US 12,521,812 B2Granted
Metal wire feeding system
AssigneeNorsk Titanium AS
InventorsTrond Forseth, Arne Ramsland, Tom-Erik Falla, Brede Vigdal, Dyre Rolstad
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Abstract
Provided are a systems and methods for continuously providing a metal wire to a welding torch for manufacturing objects by solid freeform fabrication to provide continuous deposition of metal to the freeform object, especially objects made with titanium or titanium alloy wire.
Claims20
A metal wire feeding system, comprising:
- a wire supply spool;
- a cabinet;
- a wire feeding device for feeding wire from the wire supply spool into the cabinet;
- a first slack wire guide positioned in the cabinet to receive wire from the wire feeding device in a first groove;
- a second slack wire guide positioned in the cabinet to receive the wire from the first slack wire guide;
- a third slack wire guide positioned in the cabinet to receive the wire from the second slack guide and to feed the wire to a second groove of the first slack wire guide;
- a slack wire pulling device positioned in the cabinet to receive the wire from the second groove of the first slack wire guide;
- and
- a cabinet exit guide through which the wire exits the cabinet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.