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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1994
Gilbert E Flowers, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Joel H Cohen, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Earl L Kelly, Jr, West Chester, OH (US);
Levi Williams, Milford, OH (US);
Gray W Grubbs, Burlington, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
Direct electric current arc welding between an electrode and a workpiece surface is accomplished in the electric current range of about 0.5-45 amps while reversing the polarities between the electrode and the workpiece surface at a low frequency rate in the range of about 1-1000 cycles per second, in a series of polarity cycles. The workpiece surface, in at least some of the cycles, is positive for a time less than that surface is negative to result in anodic cleaning of the workpiece surface. If the arc is extinguished during a polarity reversal, the arc is maintained, for example, by restriking.