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US 4,778,154 AGranted
Welding torch carriage
OwnerCrespin Cortez, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A wheeled holder is designed to hold and carry a welding torch stably along a chosen welding line. The holder includes adjusting means for varying the mounting position of the torch relative to the wheels. The circumferential edge of each wheel is designed as a knife edge to improve the holder's ability to be steered along a curved line.
Claims4
A new and improved cutting torch holder and training device comprising:
- body means having a torch tip receiving aperture formed therein:
- torch securing means for fixedly securing said torch tip to said body means;
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- wheel means operably attached to said body means, said wheel means including a peripheral knife edge portion, whereby said wheel means are in point contact with a supporting surface, and
- wherein said torch securing means comprises a thumbscrew operably movable within said torch tip receiving aperture, and
- further including heat reflecting means forming a part of said body means, said heat reflecting means being operable to reflect heat from said body means towards said workpiece during a use of said cutting torch, and
- wherein said heat reflecting means comprises a concavely shaped cavity formed in a bottom portion of said body means, said torch tip being positioned within said cavity when said cutting torch is attached to said body means.
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