Michael Shawn Toops

US Patent:

20060006149, Jan 12, 2006

Filed:

Mar 18, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/083614

Inventors:

Michael Toops - Cedar Park TX, US
Mingsheng Zhu - Suzhoujie, CN

Assignee:

Flame Technologies, Inc. - Cedar Park TX

International Classification:

B23K 9/013

US Classification:

219069100

Abstract:

A jointable hollow carbon rod used for arc gouging includes one or more hollow carbon rods joined together end-to-end. Because of the hollow nature of the rods, more electrical current can be delivered to the rods, resulting in significantly faster material removal. Since the rods are jointable, the arc gouging process can continue for a longer period of time before the jointed rods are consumed by the arc gouging process.