Enhanced contact area quick release mig gun tip
CA 2323547 C · Owner: Miller Electric Manufacturing Company · Inventors: Colling, Ronald W.
Overview
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Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A quick release mig gun tip comprises a contact tip having an exterior frusto-conical surface and external threads and a gas diffuser having an internal frusto-conical surface and internal threads. The threads are preferably stub acme threads. The contact tip is assembled to the gas diffuser by engaging their threads until the frusto-conical surfaces mate. Large currents can be conducted through the frusto-conical surfaces and the threads without causing excessive resistance heating. The contact tip threads are designed so that assembly and release of the contact tip requires only one turn relative to the gas diffuser.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed September 23, 1996 and granted December 4, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 23, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 23, 2018.
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