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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2019
The Esab Group Inc., Florence, SC (US);
Ryan T. Lynaugh, Cornish, NH (US);
Geoffrey Putnam, Charlestown, NH (US);
Christopher Vincent Braudis, Sr., Canaan, NH (US);
THE ESAB GROUP INC., North Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A method for piercing and cutting a workpiece includes delivering a plasma gas at a first pressure through a process gas flow channel of a plasma torch while ionizing the plasma gas to produce a plasma arc that extends between an electrode of the torch and the workpiece. While the plasma gas is delivered at the first pressure, performing a piercing operation by producing a pierce hole in the workpiece using the plasma arc. Subsequent to the piercing operation, performing a cutting operation by delivering through the process gas flow channel the plasma gas at a second pressure lower than the first pressure and with the forming a cut in the workpiece that originates at and extends away from a boundary of the pierce hole.
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