Method and apparatus for brazing

US5215246A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Southwire Company, LLC · US

Inventors

• R. G. Thompson · Birmingham, US
• Mark Dixon · Carrollton, US
• B. Radhakrishnan · Birmingham, US
• William M. Berry, III · Newnan, US
• Darnell Smith · York, US
• John Cassimus · Osceola, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 31, 1991
• Grant date: Jun 1, 1993
• Expiry date: Dec 31, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49195
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Method and apparatus for holding the ends of two metal rods which are to be joined, cutting a face on each of the two metal rods, maintaining alignment of the two cut faces, and providing proper compressive force on the two rods while they are joined by a brazing operation.