Century Mfg. Co.

Century Manufacturing Company

John C West

Thomas D Chandler

William P Weller

Gary L Cook

Terry A Prentice

Portable welding unit

The invention concerns a power supply for an arc welder. A main transformer drives a plurality of secondaries. The invention provides a switching and control system that derives fully rectified power from the secondaries, at an adjustable duty cycle, and applies the power to a welding electrode. One advantage to using a plurality of secondaries is that each supplies part of the total electrode current. Thus, the rectification and duty-cycle control can be accomplished by individual devices (such as SCRs) which are distributed over the secondaries. The total cost of the individual devices can be less than the cost of a single device, of equivalent current capacity, used in a single secondary.

Welding power supply

A metal cutting nozzle attachment for an inert gas welder converting the welder into a metal cutting apparatus having the welding flux core wire energized to become the cutting element and the nozzle being arranged to cause a sufficient increase in the velocity of an air stream passing therethrough to clear away the molten or cut metal.

Mig welder cutting head attachment

This invention relates to an electric battery charger for a storage battery such as an automotive battery in which the improvement consists of the visual display of such indicia that it informs the operator of the condition of charging present between the battery charger and the battery to be charged as to whether the battery is being properly charged, whether it can be charged and that it is fully charged.

Means indicating a condition of charge in a battery charger

In the sight opening of the face shield of a welding helmet, a protective lens overlying a filter lens and having a light impervious coating about its edge portion blocking the passage of light rays through its edge portion and through the clearance about the lenses within the sight opening and thus eliminating the use of a gasket or other sealant about the lens first mentioned or within or about the sight opening.

Growing community of inventors

Eagan, MN, United States of America

John C West