CA1304790C - Current nozzle for mig- and mag-welding burner - Google Patents
Current nozzle for mig- and mag-welding burnerInfo
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Abstract
(57) Abstract The invention relates to a current nozzle for a MIG- and MAG-welding burner, compris-ing a nozzle body (8) having an orifice (9) for the passage of a welding wire (5). The current nozzle is provided with means for automatically turning welding wire (5) and nozzle orifice (9) eccentrically relative to each other as a function of the wearing of nozzle orifice (9). The means for turn-ing welding wire (5) and nozzle orifice (9) relative to each other consist of a coil spring (10) surrounding nozzle body (8), one end of said spring being fastened to nozzle body (8). The other end of said coil spring is provided with a guide open-ing (11) for allowing said welding wire (5) to travel in axial direction through said guide opening (11).
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Description
~304790 Current nozzle for M~G- and MAG-weldlng burner.
The present lnvention relates to a current nozzle for a M¢G- and MAG-wel~lng burner, comprislng a nozzle body having an orifice for the passage of a welding wlre.
Here~na~ter, the term MIG and MAG descrlblng a welding practlce ls replaced ~y the term MIG only.
What ls problematlc and require~ A lot of ~aintenance 18 particularly the polnt where the weldlng current is transmitted from the body o~ a burner to the weldlng wire. As known in the art, ln MIG-welding the additlve wire ~exves ~180 as an electrode, l.-e. $t conducts the weldlng ~urrent from a burner to a body being welded.
The additive wire i8 passed from a reel through a nozzle, the w~re rubbing a current nozzle through the lnter-medlary of an internal stralght central ~urface. A~ter unwinding lt from a wlre reel, the additlve wlre is stralghtened in a wire-forwarding de~lce and, due to its thlnness ~diameter of solid wlre from O,6 mm to 1,6 mm), the wire is qulte flex~ble, so even though the end of a burner i5 bent to an angle of 30...45 appr. 100 mm upstream o the nozzle, the wire ls guided concentric-ally to a current nozzle. If a current nozzle is made ~mall or narrow, the wire may easily be subjected to an excesslve axlal load ln a w~re-forwarding devlce and thus the wire ~ight buckle.
Purthermo~e, ~ an elongated worn-out orlfice the cur-.r rent transfer point varies since the contact point is not structurally directed at any particular sect-ion in a current nozzle and, in addition, the magnetic forces occurring at least when welding on steels can cause a lateral movement of the wire; thus the passage of welding current to the actual heat delivery point becomes unstable. Although the modern welding machines are provided with sophisticated current regulation equipment, still, as transfer resistance increases, a welding machine first supplies too low a welding cur-rent and, after the adjustment, it easily supplies too high a voltage and therefore too high a transient welding current. This leads to blow-through and spatters and also otherwise to a faulty welding re-sult. This is the case especially with a worn-out current nozzle. In short-term welding work, the pre-sently available nozzle has exhibited poor ignitability whereby, e.g. in robotized welding, there will be no joint at all or it will be of poor quality. The in-creased welding voltage readily heats a wire in the nozzle so that the wire melts, ~reaks and gets stuck in the nozzle orifice. This interrupts the work and the welder must remove the wire or replace the current nozzle.
Particularly in robot-automated production, the current nozzle disturbances are quite detrimental and further, due to increased welding voltage, there will occur so-called cold flow welding fault; a joint is apparently of good quality but in reality a joint is poor or does not exist at all. A welding problem occurring this way is avoided by frequent replacements of a current nozzle and production must be cut off for those.
An object of the invention is to eliminate or at least 31304~90 to reduce the above problems. In view of fulfilling this obje~t, the invention ls characterized by com-prising means for automatically turning a walding wire and a nozzle orifice eccentxically relative to each other as a function of the wearing of a nozzle orifice.
An advantage offered by an apparatus of the invention is that the welding current can be conveyed to an add-itive wire, serving as an electrode and slidably for-warded to a welding point, as near the electric arc as possible.
The invention will now be described with reference made to the accompanying drawings, in which:
fig. 1 shows the structural principle of a convent-lonal MIG~MAG-burner, figs. 2-3 show Gonventional nozzles of a MIG/MAG-burner in a sectional view, fig. 4 is a sectional view of a f irst embodiment of an apparatus of the invention, fig. 5 is a sectional view of a second embodiment of an apparatus of the invention, fig. 6 is an end view of the embodiment shown in fig.
5, and fig. 7 illustrates one embodiment of a detail shown in figs. 5 and 6.
Fig. 1 shows the structural principle of a MIG- and MAG-burner generally used at present. Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views of the welding current nozzles (0.1 and O.2) of a conventional MIG- ~nd MAG-burner.
Fig. 4 illustrates a solution for subjecting a wire 5 4 1 3 0 47 ~ 0 to sufficient contact pressure by making a current nozzle 6 a two-piece component, whereby an orifice 9 in the end 1 facing a welding point and/or an orifice 7 in the body 2 facing a burner handle, said orifices being substantially circular in shape, is eccentric relative to its fastening thread 4, preferably a parallellogram thread. Over the the joint portion is mounted a suitable coil spring 3 which causes a force urging components 1 and 2 away from each other, the weld-ing current passing along the surface 4a of flat thread 4, said surface facing the burner handle and being sub-stantially perpendicular to the nozzle axis, from basic component 2 to tip ccmponent 1. For this purpose, at an as-sembly stage, said spring 3 is preferably given a com-pressive force causing a torsional stress in the spring wire. The wearing of an orifice in component 1 is com-pensated for in a manner that component 1 is turning upon a flat thread or the like by the action of a tor-sional moment (flexural stress in spring wire) given to spring 3 at an assembly stage. Spring 3 is prefer-ably fixedly mounted on body 2 and tip 1. ~Jhen add-itive wire 5 is threaded into position, said tip 1 of nozzle 6 is turned against spring 3 and thus, despite the eccentricity of orifices 9 and 7, said wire 5 finds its position. During the adjustment, said current nozzle tip 1 approaches body component 2, whereby the distance of tip component 1 slightly increases from a body being welded supposing that the distance of a gas dome from the body remains constant. The above aspect has no significance regarding the welding re-sult.
Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate a second embodiment of an apparatus of the invention with a coil spring 10 fit-ted around a one-piece nozzle body 8. One end of coil spring 10 is fastened to nozzle body 8 and the other end is provided with a guide opening 11 through which a welding wire 5 can extend in its axial direction.
Said guide op~ng, 11 is preferably made of a wear-resisting and electrically non-conducting material, such as ceramics. The guide opening 11 can be made of a separate element as shown e.g. in fig. 7 fastened to the end of spring 10 or it can be formed directly on spring 10 by shaping the end of said spring, followed by coating that end with said wear-resisting and electrically non-conducting material. A nozzle orifice 9 is preferably made eccentric relative to the centre axis of nozzle body 8. When turning spring 10, the guide opening is adapted to move along an arcuate path which is eccentric relative to nozzle orifice 9. Thus, when stressed so by turning, spring 10 causes, while being relieved, the turning of welding wire 5 relative to nozzle orifice 9, in other words the penetration of a welding wire into a meterial abutting the~nozzle ori-fice at the same rate the nozzle orifice is wearing away. Thus, it is possible to utilize all material surrounding the nozzle orifice. In order to maintain a suitable wire- forwarding resistance, a spring 10 surrounding said welding wire 5, as for its part ex-tending beyond the end of nozzle body 8, is preferably made spirally shape, the length of said spiral being preferably about 1,5 turns. The embodiment shown in figs. 5 and 6 can also be designed by fitting spring 10 inside nozzle orifice 9, e.g. in a separate spiral groove made on the periphery of orifice 9.
The present lnvention relates to a current nozzle for a M¢G- and MAG-wel~lng burner, comprislng a nozzle body having an orifice for the passage of a welding wlre.
Here~na~ter, the term MIG and MAG descrlblng a welding practlce ls replaced ~y the term MIG only.
What ls problematlc and require~ A lot of ~aintenance 18 particularly the polnt where the weldlng current is transmitted from the body o~ a burner to the weldlng wire. As known in the art, ln MIG-welding the additlve wire ~exves ~180 as an electrode, l.-e. $t conducts the weldlng ~urrent from a burner to a body being welded.
The additive wire i8 passed from a reel through a nozzle, the w~re rubbing a current nozzle through the lnter-medlary of an internal stralght central ~urface. A~ter unwinding lt from a wlre reel, the additlve wlre is stralghtened in a wire-forwarding de~lce and, due to its thlnness ~diameter of solid wlre from O,6 mm to 1,6 mm), the wire is qulte flex~ble, so even though the end of a burner i5 bent to an angle of 30...45 appr. 100 mm upstream o the nozzle, the wire ls guided concentric-ally to a current nozzle. If a current nozzle is made ~mall or narrow, the wire may easily be subjected to an excesslve axlal load ln a w~re-forwarding devlce and thus the wire ~ight buckle.
Purthermo~e, ~ an elongated worn-out orlfice the cur-.r rent transfer point varies since the contact point is not structurally directed at any particular sect-ion in a current nozzle and, in addition, the magnetic forces occurring at least when welding on steels can cause a lateral movement of the wire; thus the passage of welding current to the actual heat delivery point becomes unstable. Although the modern welding machines are provided with sophisticated current regulation equipment, still, as transfer resistance increases, a welding machine first supplies too low a welding cur-rent and, after the adjustment, it easily supplies too high a voltage and therefore too high a transient welding current. This leads to blow-through and spatters and also otherwise to a faulty welding re-sult. This is the case especially with a worn-out current nozzle. In short-term welding work, the pre-sently available nozzle has exhibited poor ignitability whereby, e.g. in robotized welding, there will be no joint at all or it will be of poor quality. The in-creased welding voltage readily heats a wire in the nozzle so that the wire melts, ~reaks and gets stuck in the nozzle orifice. This interrupts the work and the welder must remove the wire or replace the current nozzle.
Particularly in robot-automated production, the current nozzle disturbances are quite detrimental and further, due to increased welding voltage, there will occur so-called cold flow welding fault; a joint is apparently of good quality but in reality a joint is poor or does not exist at all. A welding problem occurring this way is avoided by frequent replacements of a current nozzle and production must be cut off for those.
An object of the invention is to eliminate or at least 31304~90 to reduce the above problems. In view of fulfilling this obje~t, the invention ls characterized by com-prising means for automatically turning a walding wire and a nozzle orifice eccentxically relative to each other as a function of the wearing of a nozzle orifice.
An advantage offered by an apparatus of the invention is that the welding current can be conveyed to an add-itive wire, serving as an electrode and slidably for-warded to a welding point, as near the electric arc as possible.
The invention will now be described with reference made to the accompanying drawings, in which:
fig. 1 shows the structural principle of a convent-lonal MIG~MAG-burner, figs. 2-3 show Gonventional nozzles of a MIG/MAG-burner in a sectional view, fig. 4 is a sectional view of a f irst embodiment of an apparatus of the invention, fig. 5 is a sectional view of a second embodiment of an apparatus of the invention, fig. 6 is an end view of the embodiment shown in fig.
5, and fig. 7 illustrates one embodiment of a detail shown in figs. 5 and 6.
Fig. 1 shows the structural principle of a MIG- and MAG-burner generally used at present. Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views of the welding current nozzles (0.1 and O.2) of a conventional MIG- ~nd MAG-burner.
Fig. 4 illustrates a solution for subjecting a wire 5 4 1 3 0 47 ~ 0 to sufficient contact pressure by making a current nozzle 6 a two-piece component, whereby an orifice 9 in the end 1 facing a welding point and/or an orifice 7 in the body 2 facing a burner handle, said orifices being substantially circular in shape, is eccentric relative to its fastening thread 4, preferably a parallellogram thread. Over the the joint portion is mounted a suitable coil spring 3 which causes a force urging components 1 and 2 away from each other, the weld-ing current passing along the surface 4a of flat thread 4, said surface facing the burner handle and being sub-stantially perpendicular to the nozzle axis, from basic component 2 to tip ccmponent 1. For this purpose, at an as-sembly stage, said spring 3 is preferably given a com-pressive force causing a torsional stress in the spring wire. The wearing of an orifice in component 1 is com-pensated for in a manner that component 1 is turning upon a flat thread or the like by the action of a tor-sional moment (flexural stress in spring wire) given to spring 3 at an assembly stage. Spring 3 is prefer-ably fixedly mounted on body 2 and tip 1. ~Jhen add-itive wire 5 is threaded into position, said tip 1 of nozzle 6 is turned against spring 3 and thus, despite the eccentricity of orifices 9 and 7, said wire 5 finds its position. During the adjustment, said current nozzle tip 1 approaches body component 2, whereby the distance of tip component 1 slightly increases from a body being welded supposing that the distance of a gas dome from the body remains constant. The above aspect has no significance regarding the welding re-sult.
Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate a second embodiment of an apparatus of the invention with a coil spring 10 fit-ted around a one-piece nozzle body 8. One end of coil spring 10 is fastened to nozzle body 8 and the other end is provided with a guide opening 11 through which a welding wire 5 can extend in its axial direction.
Said guide op~ng, 11 is preferably made of a wear-resisting and electrically non-conducting material, such as ceramics. The guide opening 11 can be made of a separate element as shown e.g. in fig. 7 fastened to the end of spring 10 or it can be formed directly on spring 10 by shaping the end of said spring, followed by coating that end with said wear-resisting and electrically non-conducting material. A nozzle orifice 9 is preferably made eccentric relative to the centre axis of nozzle body 8. When turning spring 10, the guide opening is adapted to move along an arcuate path which is eccentric relative to nozzle orifice 9. Thus, when stressed so by turning, spring 10 causes, while being relieved, the turning of welding wire 5 relative to nozzle orifice 9, in other words the penetration of a welding wire into a meterial abutting the~nozzle ori-fice at the same rate the nozzle orifice is wearing away. Thus, it is possible to utilize all material surrounding the nozzle orifice. In order to maintain a suitable wire- forwarding resistance, a spring 10 surrounding said welding wire 5, as for its part ex-tending beyond the end of nozzle body 8, is preferably made spirally shape, the length of said spiral being preferably about 1,5 turns. The embodiment shown in figs. 5 and 6 can also be designed by fitting spring 10 inside nozzle orifice 9, e.g. in a separate spiral groove made on the periphery of orifice 9.
Claims (6)
1. A current nozzle for MIG- and MAG-welding burner, com-prising a nozzle body (6, 8) having an orifice (7, 9) for the passage of a welding wire (5), c h a r a c -t e r i z e d in that there are means for automatical-ly turning welding wire (5) and nozzle orifice (9) eccentrically relative to each other as a function of the wearing of nozzle orifice (9).
2. A current nozzle as set forth in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that said nozzle body (6) comprises two axially successive components (1, 2) with a threaded joint (4) therebetween, so that one component (1) is able to turn relative to the other body component (2) around an axis eccentric with respect to orifice (7, 9) by means of a coil spring (3) surrounding said body components (1, 2).
3. A current nozzle as set forth in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that said means for turn-ing welding wire (5) and nozzle orifice (9) relative to each other consist of a coil spring (10) surround-ing nozzle body (8), one end of that spring being fastened to nozzle body (8) and the other end thereof being provided with a guide opening for allowing said welding wire (5) to extend in axial direction through the guide opening.
4. A current nozzle as set forth in claim 3, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the guide opening is made of a wear-resisting and electrically non-conduct-ing material.
5. A current nozzle as set forth in claim 1, characterized in that said nozzle orifice (9) is positioned eccentrically relative to nozzle body (1,8).
6. A current nozzle as set forth in any one of claims 3-5, characterized in that, for the part extending beyond the end of nozzle body (8), said spring (10) is made spirally shaped, the length of said spiral being about 1,5 turns.
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| CA000570219A CA1304790C (en) | 1988-06-23 | 1988-06-23 | Current nozzle for mig- and mag-welding burner |
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| CA000570219A CA1304790C (en) | 1988-06-23 | 1988-06-23 | Current nozzle for mig- and mag-welding burner |
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