US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on June 10 for "Orbital welding device with simplified handling" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,093, issued on June 10, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Orbital welding device with simplified handling" was invented by Markus Tamm (Uberlingen, Germany) and Marcel Foh (Markdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orbital welding device (1), having a welding current source (10) in a welding current source housing (11) and a base controller (12), and an orbital welding head (20) connected to the welding current source (10) by a cable (2), the orbital welding head (20) having a pipe mount (21) and a welding electrode holder (22) mounted rotatably with respect to the pipe mount (21) for holding a wel...