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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
May. 31, 2007
Applicant:
Andreu Preston Meckler, Mentor, OH (US);
Inventor:
Andreu Preston Meckler, Mentor, OH (US);
Assignee:
LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC., City of Industry, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 9/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 9/124 (2013.01);
Abstract
An automatic wire feed adjuster, including a feeding mechanism including a pair of rollers that feeds a wire therebetween, a tension controller that adjusts a tension between the pair of rollers, a wire speed sensor that measures a fed speed of the wire after exiting the feeding mechanism, and a control circuit that compares a driven speed of the wire with the fed speed of the wire, and that decides whether to instruct the tension controller to adjust the tension between the pair of rollers.