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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2006
Jonathan R. Ertmer, Greenville, WI (US);
Jeff Lenzner, Appleton, WI (US);
Kenneth A. Stanzel, Appleton, WI (US);
Ronald D. Woodward, Kaukauna, WI (US);
Jonathan R. Ertmer, Greenville, WI (US);
Jeff Lenzner, Appleton, WI (US);
Kenneth A. Stanzel, Appleton, WI (US);
Ronald D. Woodward, Kaukauna, WI (US);
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system is provided with a welding wire feeder that a first wheel having a first rotational direction, and a second wheel having a rotational direction opposite from the first rotational direction. The first and wheels are disposed compressively about a wire feed region, and the first and wheels are drivingly coupled together to output substantially equal tangential in the wire feed region. In addition, the first wheel, or the second wheel, or first and second wheels comprise a drive wheel directly coupled to a gear separately coupling both the drive wheel and the gear to a shaft.