Abstract: A machine for flash welding rails having two gripping clamps with conductive jaws pivoted on a common shaft, at least one clamp being able to slide along said shaft relative to the second clamp under the action of a jack and being guided along rods disposed laterally to the rail, which rods also serving as jack rods in which the machine has flash removing cutters mounted on a flash removing clamp independently of the gripping clamp, which flash removing clamp has two clamp halves pivotally and slidably mounted on the same shaft and on the same rods as the gripping clamps.

Abstract: A system for detecting frequency and phase-angle synchronism between local and utility power sources comprising a pair of identical permanent magnet synchronous motors respectively connected to the power sources and having output shafts in opposed alignment. Fingers mounted on the motor shafts effect electrical interconnection between the motor housings, which are ungrounded, when the power signals are at identical frequency and in phase. An SCR is responsive to such interconnection to energize a relay and interconnect the power sources.

Abstract: An automatic device for changing an electric welding gun, operated by the arm (11) of a manipulator, in which two elements (10, 50), one carried by the manipulator arm and the other by the gun, can be connected together by the first element being made to approach and fit into the second; each element is provided with ducts (13) for passage of the liquid for cooling and controlling the opening of the electrodes (63); valve units (31) connect said ducts (13) to each other when the two elements (10, 50) are fitted together; the approach of the two elements is guided and checked, and hydraulically controlled hook portions (42, 71) lock together and separate the elements in accordance with the programming of the manipulator; each element is also provided with male cones (66) and female cones (16) provided on or in copper units (14) in order to fit into each other and establish electrical contact between the manipulator and gun.

Abstract: A capacitor is formed by placing between two electodes a thin film of amorphous titanate which has been ion implanted with noble gas ions.

Abstract: A variable capacitor, wherein at least one of its stator or rotor electrode is made of aluminum alloy or copper alloy and coated with a thin dielectric material layer containing fluorocarbon resin as its principal component by means of baking, is disclosed. The disclosed variable capacitor is particularly suited for a miniaturization of an appliance which adopts this variable capacitor. Careful qualification of the electrode materials, dielectric material, additional dielectric substance, and conditions for performing the baking and layer forming operation prevent the formation of the oxide film over the surface of the electrode material, and thus ensures a firm adherence of the layer to the substrate and a large maximum capacitance of the layer.

Abstract: A silicon capacitive pressure transducer 34 comprising two wafers of silicon 14, 32 separated by borosilicate glass 18, 21, one of the wafers 14 having a borosilicate glass pedestal 26 thereon which is metallized 30 to provide one plate of a capacitor, the other plate of which is the surface of one of the silicon wafers 32. The distance between the upper surface of the glass pedestal and the lower surface of the silicon wafer is defined by a portion 18 of the borosilicate glass, the portion 21 of borosilicate glass being the same height as that of the glass pedestal 26. An embodiment of a transducer 34b employs a silicon pedestal 26b, wherein the glass portion 21b only provides separation of the silicon wafers 14b, 32b with lower parasitic capacitance.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a welded can body from tinplate or a tin-iron alloy plated steel sheet comprises overlapping the opposite marginal portions of a blank of the tinplate or the tin-iron plated steel sheet to form a can body preform having an overlapping portion, applying at least to the cut edges of the marginal portions of the blank a fluxing agent promoting wetting of steel with molten tin, and electrical resistance seam welding the overlapping portion in a nonoxidizing atmosphere by employing a pair of wire electrodes each covered by a layer of metallic tin on the surface thereof facing the overlapping portion. The welded portion has improved corrosion resistance, as an extruded weld portion and a remaining cut edge surface portion thereof are covered with tin transferred from the surfaces of the wire electrodes and/or the tinplate during the welding operation.

Abstract: A roll welding machine has the frame mounting head and tail stocks for axially supporting a castor roll having a crack therein. The heat source is mounted upon the frame below and along the length of the roll for maintaining said roll at a minimum temperature of 600.degree. F., approximately. An upright support of inverted U-shape is secured to the frame and includes upright standards. Vertically adjustable interconnected slide carriers are mounted upon the standards and connected to a power winch by cables and pulleys. A power reciprocated cross slide is mounted upon the slide carriers and mounts horizontal support beam on which is guidably mounted a travel carriage supporting a depending welding head assembly. A welding wire drive feed head feeds the welding wire from a drum journaled upon the carriage. The side and ends of the roll are enclosed to define a uniform heat zone chamber whereby while the roll is welded, it is maintained at the minimum preheat temperature.

Abstract: A welding gun handle assembly connectable to a supply cable supplying a consumable welding electrode, shielding gas and electrical power, all under the control of a trigger operated switch in the handle assembly including a relocatable thumb rest which may be attached on either side of the handle assembly above the trigger of the switch so that the trigger may be operated in a natural manner by both right and left handed operators, a grip portion having finger grooves for placing at least one finger over the trigger of the switch, cooling vents through the handle assembly to permit circulation of cooling air therethrough, connection apparatus for connecting the welding gun to the supply cable, a gooseneck assembly and an adapter on the handle for connection therewith and a replaceable liner for guiding the consumable welding electrode from the connection apparatus to the welding gun, through the removable gooseneck.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of welded cans, which comprises forming a blank into a cylinder and passing a lap portion of the formed cylinder between a pair of electrode rollers through an electrode wire to effect electric resistance welding, wherein said blank is a tin-free steel blank comprising a steel plate substrate, a layer of metallic chromium formed on the surface of the steel plate substrate and a layer of chromium oxide formed on the metallic chromium layer, and electric resistance welding is carried out in an inert atmosphere in the state where an electrode wire having a plated layer of a soft metal selected from the group consisting of tin and alloys thereof, the thickness of said plated layer being 0.1 to 20 .mu.m, is kept in close contact with the chromium oxide layer of the tin-free steel blank.

Abstract: An arc welding apparatus that imparts a rotational movement to the tip of the consumable electrode to cause drops of molten metal to be thrown by centrifugal force against the sidewall of the slot between the two metal workpieces being welded.

Abstract: A welding electrode pair of the present invention has substantially columnar first and second welding electrodes coaxially disposed so that their respective tip end faces face each other. Formed on the tip end face of the first welding electrode is a first contact portion protruding therefrom and extending substantially in parallel thereto across the tip end face. Formed on the tip end face of the second welding electrode are second contact portions protruding therefrom substantially in parallel with the tip end face and the first contact portion as if the second contact portions were fit over the first contact portion, extending across the tip end face, and having a substantially circular arc portion at the projected end thereof.

Abstract: A welder for welding side seams of tubular bodies. The welder has a body feed in the form of a single conveyor which serves to receive bodies at regular intervals from a rounded unseamed tubular body supply and to move the bodies into a welding head nip with the bodies being initially widely spaced and then the gap between a body in the welding head and a trailing body being rapidly reduced so that the leading edge of a following body enters into the nip at the same moment as the trailing edge of a leading body begins to depart from the nip, with the adjacent edges of adjacent bodies being in substantially touching but positively spaced relation.

Abstract: To spot weld overlapping work pieces contact electrodes are used with concave portions. The workpiece is preheated by the contact electrodes then spot arc welded by a consumable wire fed through one of the contact electrodes. The spot arc weldment takes the final shape of the concave portions.

Abstract: Apparatus for fabricating metal trusses having spaced preformed chord members of generally longitudinal predetermined length and cross-section joined by at least one preformed supporting web member of predetermined length and cross-section by electrically resistance welding together the chord and web member at a common region of contact with the chord member having a smaller cross-sectional area than the web member at the common region of contact. A device includes in to place a station for cleaning the chord and web members, means for moving the clean chord and web members to an assembly station for assembling the chord members in spaced relation joined by the web member. A device for passing the assembled truss along a support to the electrical resistance welder having opposed first and second electrodes of unequal resistance and adapted to releasably clamp the chord and web members respectively at the common region of contact.

Abstract: In an apparatus and a method of at least partially suppressing oxidation of can components or the like during resistance roller welding with the aid of an inert gas, the steps include welding the can components to one another, so as to obtain a hot welding seam, supplying the inert gas to the hot welding seam so as to envelop it at least partially, and to create a region of the inert gas in contact with the surrounding atmosphere, so that oxidation of the hot welding seam is at least partially suppressed.

Abstract: A capacitance humidity sensor according to the disclosure a non-conductive base plate, electrodes oppositely arranged on the base plate, a metal compound membrane formed by ion-plating independently on the electrodes, the metal compound membrane being roughened on its surface by plasma etching and being active to the humidity, and a moisture permeable metal skin formed on the metal compound membrane. The metal compound is preferably an oxide or nitride of aluminum or magnesium.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved method for arc cutting of metal, more specifically a method in which an electric arc is formed between the metal and a cutting torch and gas is blown into the cut during the cutting process. According to the invention a paste is injected through the torch into the region of the arc, said paste containing a finely-divided electrically conducting substance mixed with a carrier and acting as an electrode which causes the electric arc to be struck. The conducting substance may contain e.g. metal powder, such as powder of aluminium or of an aluminium alloy, to which also carbon and phosphorus may be added.

Abstract: The resistance welding machine of this invention has an arm carrying a movable electrode and provided with a supporting bore, a power receiving bushing fitted in the supporting bore, and a power feeding shaft mounted on the main body of the welding machine on which a second electrode, is also mounted. The power feeding shaft is received by the bore of the power receiving bush to support the arm while supplying electric power to the movable electrode. A plurality of grooves are formed in the inner peripheral surface of the power receiving bushing to receive powders generated as a result of local wear due to sliding contact between the power feeding shaft and the power receiving bushing. The grooves are filled with grease which adsorbs and holds the powders.

Abstract: An energy absorbing mechanical end stop for a high speed gear train that is used to drive a variable vacuum capacitor utilizes a friction plate that is mounted to a gear member of the high speed gear train as an energy absorbing mechanism. A wedge member is activated when the tuning of the variable vacuum capacitor approaches a limit and falls between the friction plate and the gear member to which the friction plate is attached. The friction between the friction plate and the wedge member brings the gear member to a stop without damaging the high speed gear train or the variable vacuum capacitor that is driven by the high speed gear train.