Electrode roll arrangement for a resistance roll-welding machine

US4150277A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Fael S.A. · CH

Inventors

• Fred Schalch · Le Landeron, CH
• Peter Schreiber · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 1977
• Grant date: Apr 17, 1979
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B23K11/366
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An electrode roll-welding arrangement for a resistance roll-welding machine comprising a welding arm adapted to be supported at a machine frame and an electrode roll mounted at an end of the welding arm, the electrode roll being supplied with the welding current by means of the welding arm acting as an electrical conductor and a shaft of the electrode roll mounted in such welding arm. The end of the welding arm receiving the electrode roll is bifurcated or fork-shaped and embodies two fork-like or bifurcated leg members situated essentially in parallelism and opposite one another, each bifurcated leg member having a slot which opens towards the front side or face of the end of the welding arm. Each such slot has at its inward or proximal slot end a bearing cradle for the reception of the shaft of the electrode roll. A clamping element is arranged in each slot and each such clamping element is urged with its contact surfaces against the shaft of the electrode roll as well as against the slot walls in the welding arm by means of an adjustable pressure element which is arranged at the end of each leg member of the welding arm.