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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dennis G Holmes, Hayward, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pacific Roller Die Co., Inc., Hayward, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
82 531 ; 82 46 ; 493289 ;
Abstract
A travelling pipe cut-off is described having a pair of knife-edged rollers mounted on a carriage that also supports a cut-off torch. At least one roller is engaged with the smooth surface of the pipe at all times during cut-off, each such roller advancing the carriage while the pipe is being advanced. The two rollers are spaced apart such that, as the bulge of a pipe seam approaches one of the rollers, that roller is moved out of engagement with the pipe, but the other roller remains in engagement. The carriage and cut-off mechanism is, therefore, advanced only by that roller which is engaged with a smooth surface of the pipe.