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US 4,410,780 AGranted
Machines for welding rails or similar articles
AssigneeMatix Industries
InventorMarcel A. Mutti
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Abstract
A machine for flash welding rails having two gripping clamps with conductive jaws pivoted on a common shaft, at least one clamp being able to slide along said shaft relative to the second clamp under the action of a jack and being guided along rods disposed laterally to the rail, which rods also serving as jack rods in which the machine has flash removing cutters mounted on a flash removing clamp independently of the gripping clamp, which flash removing clamp has two clamp halves pivotally and slidably mounted on the same shaft and on the same rods as the gripping clamps.
Claims7
A machine for flash welding of rails comprising
- a shaft;
- first and second gripping clamps each having a pair of conductive jaws pivotally mounted on said shaft;
- means for moving at least one said gripping clamp along the shaft relative to the other gripping clamp;
- a flash removing clamp having clamp halves pivotally and slidably mounted on said shaft independently of said gripping clamps;
- and means for moving said flash removing clamp relative to and independently of said gripping clamps.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.