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US 12,668,029 B2Granted
Device for welding plastic tubes
AssigneeGenesis BPS, LLC
InventorsJacob M. Diamanti, Jerrold B. Grossman
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Abstract
A tube welder including a clamp block configured to receive a tube, a carriage movable along a first axis, and a slide rail coupling the clamp block to the carriage such that the clamp block is configured to move along a second axis between the carriage and the clamp block. The tube welder further including a spring biasing the clamp block in a first direction along the second axis and a linkage configured to move the clamp block in the first direction and in a second direction along the second axis, opposite the first direction.
Claims20
A tube welder comprising:
- a clamp block configured to receive a tube;
- a screw coupled to the clamp block, wherein the clamp block translates along the screw in response to rotation of the screw;
- a finger slidably coupled to the clamp block;
- a spring biasing the finger to an extended position;
- a carriage with a notch, the carriage coupled to the clamp block by a slide rail to permit relative movement between the carriage and the clamp block,
- wherein when the finger is in the extended position, at least a portion of the finger is received within the notch and the clamp block is fixed for co-translation with respect to the carriage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.