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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
John E Myers, Sparks, NV (US);
Assignee:
Torque Converter Rebuilding Systems, TCRS, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
21912511 ; 219136 ; 2191 / ;
Abstract
An automatic welding turntable for welding together the cut-apart halves of a reconditioned torque converter is tilted to cause the bead of weld to fill the crack between the halves of the torque converter. A motor rotates the torque converter in a first direction while wire is fed to the stinger of a wire-fed arc welder. A sensor and a control circuit cause the torque converter to rotate 360.degree. plus a predetermined increment, stop welding, counter-rotate the predetermined increments, and shut down so that the turntable is set up to complete the next weld of 360.degree. plus the predetermined increment.