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Mikhail Evgenievich Danchenko

Vasily Berkovich Malkin

Eduard Migranovich Esibyan

Daniil A Dudko

Grigory B Asoyants

Vsevolod D Dotsenko

Valery Andreevich Kozhema

Vladislav Grigorievich Osintsev

Eduard Migranovich Esibian

Jury Grigorievich Naumov

To control the plasma arc in accordance with the present invention, the pressure change characteristics or curve in a torch is determined from the moment a plasma forming gas is delivered thereto until this plasma forming gas reaches the pressure in the supply manifold. Such a measurement is done for each selected cutting condition characterized by a constant flow rate of the plasma forming gas. The arc supply current is then fed in two stages: at first by a jump to a current amounting to approximately half the cutting current for a selected condition and then by gradually increasing the current in compliance with the pressure change characteristics or curve until the cutting current value is attained. Also described is a device to realize the method, comprising a torch pressure sensor, a means for shutting off the torch nozzle, a memory unit registering the signals of the pressure sensor and a rectifier regulator control means which controls the regulator in accordance with the sensor signals recorded in the memory unit.

Method of plasma arc cutting control and a device for realizing same

A torch with a turbulized supply of a plasma forming gas comprises an electrode having a high-melting insert and a flat end face, and a nozzle with an internal surface having two mated portions: one cylindrical and one tapering; and the diameter of the electrode flat end face amounts essentially to 0.4-0.5 diameter of the electrode proper and the radius of conjugation of the nozzle cylindrical and tapering portions is equal essentially to the length of its cylindrical portion. Due to such a design, the inventive torch features a long service life of both the electrode and the nozzle.

Plasma arc cutting torch

A method of manufacturing nonconsumable copper-zirconium electrodes in two stages. First, an intermediate layer of cold-deformed copper of a thickness substantially equal to the diameter of a zirconium core is cold deformed on the core. Second, a copper sleeve of an external diameter 5 to 15 times greater than the diameter of the core is hot deformed on to the first structure. Using this method ensures proper circular shape of the core in cross-section, reliability of the bond between the core and sleeve for operation of the electrode at temperatures in excess of 1000.degree. C and at cooling water pressures as high as 10 atmospheres, high thermal and electric conductivity across the copper-zirconium interface, as well as fine technological effectiveness of the process to the conditions of large-scale production.

Method of manufacturing a nonconsumable copper-zirconium electrode

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Kyiv, Ukraine

Mikhail Evgenievich Danchenko