Abstract: Apparatus for feeding wire at great distances, as in feeding electrode wire in electric welding. A plurality of wire-feeding mechanisms are disposed in tandem, each of such mechanisms being coupled to a DC motor, the DC motors being connected in parallel through individual back-polarizing diodes. The first or leading DC motor is connected via a speed stabilizer in a generator for switch-on impulses to a thyristor rectifier, the outputs of a rectifier being connected to the first DC motor. Each of the remaining DC motors is connected to the outputs of the thyristor rectifier, the connection of all DC motors to the thyristor rectifier being effected via a respective separating diode. The apparatus of the invention is particularly characterized by its simplified structure, while it still preserves all functional possibilities of prior art systems for feeding wire over large distances.

Abstract: An apparatus for feeding wire at great distances having wire-feeding mechanisms connected by thyristor stages with phase control to generators of ignition pulses, and supplied by a common supply bus to a speed stabilizer in the first wire-feeding device, connected to the wire-feeding mechanism and the generator of ignition pulses. In a first embodiment the output of the generator of ignition pulses of the first wire-feeding device is connected by means of a synchronization bus to the inputs of the generators of ignition pulses of the second and the next-following wire-feeding devices. In a second embodiment the inputs of the generators of ignition pulses of the second and the next devices are connected to the outputs of formers of synchronizing pulses, the inputs of which are connected to one of the supply buses.