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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:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael J Morlock, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Assignee:
The Lincoln Electric Company, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219 54 ; 2191 / ; 238164 ;
Abstract
A method of gas shielded arc welding steel railroad rails spaced from each other to define a transverse gap, which method comprising the steps of providing an elongated steel barrier plate wedged into said gap at the bottom of the spaced rails and filling gap above said steel barrier plate with a molten steel from an advancing filler metal electrode by a gas shielded electric arc welding process initiated by an arc between the electrode and the barrier plate.