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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hoesch Werke AG, Dortmund, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
228102 ; 228212 ; 228 493 ; 285286 ;
Abstract
A method is provided for joining the ends of steel pipes having male and female ends. The pipe is inserted with the male end into the pipe with the female end and a circular seam is welded, which is disposed at the inside of the female pipe for solidly connecting the pipe with the male end to the pipe with the female end. The male end is preferably provided with a ball section and the female end correspondingly with a ball shaped socket for allowing the pipe to be angled at the connection points. The invention provides the advantage that in automatic welding no large head holes have to be dug out.