Machine for welding articles of manufacture

• US 3,293,743 A
• Filed: 01/22/1965
• Issued: 12/27/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Barnard, Dale
• Original Assignee: Barnard, Dale
• Inventors: Barnard, Dale
• Application Number:
  US04/427,447
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• US Class Current: 29/563
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 11/004 Welding of a small piece to a great or broad piece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/5124 with means to feed work intermittently from one tool station to another

Claims

1. A MACHINE FOR ATTACHING SMALL PIECES OF STRIP TO SMALL DISKS COMPRISING A WELDING STATION ADAPTED TO DIRECT A STRIP OF MATERIAL FROM WHICH SAID DISKS ARE TO BE FORMED THERETHROUGH, MEANS TO DIRECT A SUPPLY OF SAID RIBBON TO SAID STRIP, WELDING MEANS TO WELD AN END OF SAID RIBBON TO SAID STRIP, REFERENCE MEANS FOR PROVIDING A REFERENCE INDICIA ON SAID STRIP, MEANS TO SEVER THE WELDED END OF SAID RIBBON FROM SAID SUPPLY, A PUNCHING STATION, BLANKING MEANS AT SAID PUNCHING STATION FOR BLANKING OUT SAID DISKS OF SAID MATERIAL FROM SAID STRIP HAVING SAID END WELDED THERETO, AND MEANS AT SAID PUNCHING STATION COOPERATING WITH SAID REFERENCE INDICIA ON SAID STRIP FOR POSITIVELY LOCATING SAID RIBBON RELATIVE TO SAID PUNCHING STATION WHEREBY SAID DISKS ARE PUNCHED OUT WITH SAID MATERIAL WELDED THERETO AT A PREDETERMINED POSITION THEREON.