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US 9,517,524 B2Granted
Welding wire spool support
AssigneeLincoln Global, Inc.
InventorVictor Miller
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Abstract
The welding wire spool support wherein the housing is formed from a single sheet of material, the housing being attached to a base, wherein the base includes a spindle support extending upward therefrom, wherein the spindle is mounted on the spindle support; and wherein a wire feeder assembly is supported on the base and adapted to draw wire from the spool.
Claims19
A welding wire spool support comprises:
- a base;
- a post extending upward from the base, wherein the post is attached to the base in a manner that forms an oblique angle between the post and the base;
- a spindle extending outward from the post and adapted to rotatably support a spool thereon, wherein the spindle is attached to the post at a perpendicular angle to the post such that the spindle is positioned at an upward angle relative to the base;
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- a housing that is open on at least an outward side, wherein the housing includes an overhang supported above the spool and extending only partially over the spool when the spool is mounted on the spindle.
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A welding wire spool support comprises:
- a housing that is open on an outward side and partially on two lateral sides perpendicular to the outward side to form a spool receiving opening, the housing including an overhang extending above the spool receiving opening and extending only partially over an uppermost portion of the spool when the spool is mounted within the opening;
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- a spindle adapted to rotatably support the spool, the spindle being supported within the opening by a post, wherein the spindle is positioned at a non-perpendicular angle relative to a base upon which the post is supported such that, when the spool is mounted on the spindle, the uppermost portion of the spool is positioned directly under the overhang and a lowermost portion of the spool is not positioned directly under the overhang.
A welding wire spool support comprising:
- a housing, the housing being formed from a single sheet of material including a sidewall extending upward from a base, a front wall and a rear wall extending inward from the sidewall and defining an outward facing spool receiving opening;
- the housing further including an overhang portion extending outward from an upper end of the sidewall, wherein the sidewall, front wall, rear wall, and overhang portion define a recess adapted to receive the wire spool therein;
- a spindle supported within the recess above the base and extending outward toward the spool receiving opening to receive the wire spool thereon, wherein the spindle is supported by a post extending upward from the base at an oblique angle relative to the base;
- wherein a surface of the front wall and a surface of the rear wall extend at an angle parallel to the oblique angle of the post such that both the front wall and the rear wall are behind the wire spool when the wire spool is supported on the spindle, and wherein the overhang portion extends outward from the sidewall above the spindle to only partially cover the wire spool when the wire spool is supported on the spindle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.