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Method and apparatus for seam welding overlapped edges

US4160892A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 18, 1976
Grant dateJul 10, 1979
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Expiry dateMar 18, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB23K11/063
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Method and apparatus for longitudinally seam welding overlapped edges of metal sheets with continuously renewable flat wire electrodes in which the edges are overlapped a distance of from three to no more than six times the thickness of the edges and the flat wire electrodes have a width from about two to three times the width of the overlap.

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