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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 1980
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1979
John J Barger, Ringgold, GA (US);
Waylon C Powell, Chattanooga, TN (US);
James R Underwood, Cleveland, TN (US);
Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (US);
Abstract
Granulated welding flux is supplied under fluid pressure from a reservoir mounted at a convenient location for reloading. The reservoir is connected to an elevated vacuum tank. Recovered excess flux is also brought up to the vacuum tank, both sources of flux maintaining a predetermined level of flux within the vacuum tank. A conduit from the vacuum tank provides gravity feed of flux from the tank to a lower divider box from which a plurality of conduits deliver flux to the traveling welding arc from behind and in front of the arc between the tip of the welding electrode and the work piece.