Drag cup for plasma arc torch
CA 2230520 C · Owner: Lincoln Electric Company (The) · Inventors: Luo, Lifeng
Overview
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A drag cup for a plasma arc torch is mounted on a sleeve member of the torch tip having a conical outer surface portion converging toward the torch nozzle and electrode assembly. The drag cup includes a mounting end, a conical portion extending along the conical portion of the sleeve member, and an end radially spaced from and surrounding the torch nozzle and including an end wall spaced axially outwardly of the end of the nozzle and having an opening therethrough coaxial with the plasma jet outlet orifice in the nozzle. The opening through the end wall of the drag cup is 3 to 6 times the size of the nozzle orifice and is large enough to provide a shielding gas flow about the plasma jet …
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- Filed February 25, 1998 and granted May 1, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 25, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 25, 2020.
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