A welding cart with a cable management system may include a frame, a shelf adapted to support a welding machine, a plurality of upright members, a plurality of wheels supporting the cart, one or more pairs of holders disposed on one or more sides of the cart, and a removable bar that may be releasably secured to the one or more pairs of holders. The bar may be releasably secured to the holders via a pin-and-hole mechanism and may have a hook adapated to hold welding equipment such as cables. The bar may be releasably secured to a first pair of holders disposed on a side of the cart or a second pair of holders disposed on another side of the cart. This system provides additional, easily accessible storage space for welding tools and accessories while still being compatible with a wide variety of portable welding machines.

A processing system has: a movable member, a relative positional relationship between the movable member and a part of the object being changeable; an irradiation apparatus that irradiates an object with processing light; and a connecting apparatus that connects the movable member and the irradiation apparatus so that a relative positional relationship between the movable member and the irradiation apparatus is changeable, the connecting apparatus has: a driving member that moves at least one of the movable member and the irradiation apparatus; and an elastic member that couples the movable member with the irradiation apparatus.

Method for monitoring the behaviour of a welding gun and handheld welding gun for welding an element to a component comprising a sensor unit adapted to measure different parameters during the welding process, a processing system with a control card adapted to control one or more parameters of the welding process, wherein the sensor unit comprises a gyroscope sensor mounted within the housing, wherein the gyroscope sensor is arranged on the control card.

A welding accessory that allows a welder to easily maintain the proper electrical arc gap between the welding torch and the surface being welded, and that improves the consistency of the shield gas plume by reducing the variation of gap between the shield gas nozzle and the surface being welded while in motion is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the welding accessory is comprised of a body portion, a slidable and rotatable repositionable arm; and a wheel attached to one end of said repositionable arm. A kit that comprises the welding accessory of the present invention and other accessories for welding and/or oxy-fuel cutting is also disclosed.

A welding guide has a plate having a first section and a second section that are bent along a bend line to form a right angle. Rollers are attached to the first and second sections and a positioning member having at least one aperture is attached to the second section. A top edge and a bottom edge of the first and second section have notches.

An example robotic welding system includes: one or more sensors configured to determine a physical position and orientation of a welding tool with respect to a reference frame; and a processor configured to: communicatively connect to a welding-type power supply; during a welding operation performed using the welding tool: track the physical position and orientation of the welding tool within the reference frame; and monitor at least one of an input or an output of the welding-type power supply; and generate a robotic welding procedure based on the tracked physical position and orientation of the welding tool and based on the at least one monitored input or monitored output of the welding-type power supply.

A flexible conductive gun tube has a plurality of articulated segments connected in series for conducting welding current from a torch handle to a diffuser. Each of the articulated segments has an outer housing having a radially inwardly projecting rim at a first end, and an internal annular groove proximate a second end. A first attachment member includes a ball portion and a first attachment projection that extends away from ball portion and is attached to a first adjacent segment of the gun tube. A second attachment member includes a socket and a second attachment projection that extends axially from the socket past the internal annular groove. The second attachment projection is attached to a second adjacent segment of the gun tube. A retaining ring is located within the internal annular groove, and a biasing member is located axially between the retaining ring and the socket.

Disclosed is a handle clamp for an exothermic mold. The clamp includes a pair of legs, each having a plurality of rods that are shaped to fit into engagement holes on sections of the mold. The rods of each leg engage with one section of the mold. Engagement brackets are rotatably disposed on one or more or the rods. The brackets each have a thumb bolt that can be extended toward a mold section connected with the clamp. When engaged with the mold section, the thumb bolt stabilizes the mold section on the handle. A detent mechanism is provided between the bracket and the leg of the handle. The detent mechanism releaseably holds the bracket in one of a selected plurality of rotational positions with respect to the rod. By selecting different rotational positions for the brackets, the handle can be configured to engage with different configurations of mold. The thumb bolts that are biased toward the mold section by a spring. The bolts include a key that can be aligned or misaligned with a key slot on the bracket. By aligning the key with the key with the key slot, the bolt can be moved toward or away from the mold section under the biasing force of the spring. By misaligning the key and key slot, the bolt can be locked into engagement with the mold section or else held in a disengaged position.

The present application discloses a soldering apparatus including a soldering iron having an iron tip that melts solder, a driving portion that moves the soldering iron, and an operation portion displaced to instruct the driving portion of a moving direction of the soldering iron. While an operation on the operation portion is performed by a user, the driving portion moves the soldering iron in a direction corresponding to a displacement direction of the operation portion.

Hybrid manual and automated welding systems and methods are described. A hand-held welding tool is manually positioned to engage a workpiece. A weld is started from an initial position based on a first manual operator event. A welding heat source is automatically or autonomously moved along the weld relative to the workpiece from the first position to a second position relative to the workpiece during welding.