Platform base and stand adjusting device used in combination with a welders shield enclosure and welder's gun and/or torch

An adjusting device for calibrating, adjusting and/or presetting a position of a welding tip of a welding tool relative to a protective welding shield, the adjusting device comprising a platform base having a central longitudinal axis and including:

• a floor member;
• a wall member extending outwardly from and surrounding the floor member;
• and
• a sub-floor slot formed in the floor member and extending substantially coaxially with the central longitudinal axis of the platform base;
• the sub-floor slot having a substantially planar sub-floor surface spaced inwardly from a substantially planar floor surface of the floor member in the direction orthogonal to the floor surface.

A method for adjusting a position of a welding tip of a welding tool relative to a protective welding shield, the method comprising the steps of:

• providing the protective welding shield comprising:
• a hollow welding shield body having an outer wall defining a welding enclosure housing the welding tip of the welding tool, the outer wall having a bottom edge defining the open bottom of the protective welding shield;
• a weld viewer mounted to the welding shield body, the weld viewer including at least one welding filter plate;
• and
• a fastening device for adjustably securing the welding tool to the welding shield body;
• providing an adjusting device for adjusting the position of the welding tip of the welding tool relative to the protective welding shield, the adjusting device including a platform base having a central longitudinal axis and comprising:
• a floor member;
• a wall member extending outwardly from and surrounding the floor member;
• and
• a sub-floor slot formed in the floor member and extending substantially coaxially with the central longitudinal axis of the platform base;
• the sub-floor slot having a sub-floor surface spaced inwardly from a floor surface of the floor member in the direction orthogonal to the floor surface;
• the outer wall of the protective welding shield configured to be mounted to the floor member of the platform base so that the bottom edge of the welding shield body is disposed within the wall member of the platform base and the welding tip of the welding tool faces the sub-floor slot of the platform base;
• mounting the welding shield body of the protective welding shield on the floor member of the platform base such that the bottom edge of the welding shield body engages the floor member of the platform base within the wall member of the platform base;
• inserting the welding tool into the welding enclosure of the protective welding shield;
• displacing the welding tool toward the sub-floor slot of the platform base until the welding tip engages the sub-floor surface of the sub-floor slot;
• and
• securing the welding tool to the welding shield body with the fastening device.