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Inventory of consumables in electric arc welding process

  • US 6,536,660 B2
  • Filed: 04/26/2001
  • Issued: 03/25/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of maintaining an inventory of consumables in conjunction with performing an electric arc welding process wherein a welding wire is advanced toward a workpiece, a welding arc is established between the advancing wire and the workpiece;

  • and the arc is shielded by a protective gas, including the steps of;

    a) providing a container of protective gas to be used in the welding process with an electronic device having a memory for storing information pertaining to the available quantity of welding wire in the container;

    b) measuring the quantity of wire consumption during the performance of the welding process; and

    , c) electronically modifying the memory of the electronic device for the available quantity of wire to reflect said wire consumption.

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