Provided is a spatter scattering prevention apparatus that eliminates the necessity to, for example, remove scattered spatters and thus makes it possible to facilitate maintenance work, and also provided is a flash butt welder including the spatter scattering prevention apparatus.

The spatter scattering prevention apparatus 1 according to the present invention is characterized by being configured to form a water screen in midair in the vicinity of a welding spot, at which welding is performed, wherein the water screen is for preventing spatters, generated during the welding, from scattering.

The spatter scattering prevention apparatus is also characterized by being configured to form the water screen on one side in a lateral direction of the welding spot and form the water screen on the other side, laterally opposite to the one side, of the welding spot.

Smart rings and methods of manufacturing smart rings are provided. A waterproof design and method of manufacturing of a smart ring, in accordance with one implementation, includes a band having at least an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface of the band includes features configured to support electronic components. The waterproofing design and method of manufacturing includes a laser etching a portion of the inner surface and subsequent to the laser etching of the portion, applying an epoxy over the electronic components and over the laser etched portion of the inner surface. Prior to the laser etching, forming an edge rib on the portion of the inner surface, wherein the laser etching is subsequently on the edge rib. Furthermore, the laser etched portion includes an increased contact area for bonding with the epoxy for the waterproof design.

For producing a welded ring, a band of a length corresponding to the circumference of the ring is bent into a ring and its two ends are welded together. The band ends to be welded together have an offset in the circumferential direction of the ring, the offset lying in the plane of the band. The welding is performed from both lateral edges of the ring, from the outside to the inside up to the offset. Welding having an overall improved welding quality and a higher tensile strength is thus obtained.

A method of producing an endless metal ring by butting and welding ends of a steel plate includes a welding process in which, while the ends of the steel plate are heated at a temperature lower than a melting temperature, the ends are pressed against each other and welded by butt welding; and a heat treatment process in which heating is performed at an austenite transformation temperature or lower after the welding process.

A method for brazing a metal part onto a surface of a zirconia component. The method involves the steps of altering the surface state of the component to permit the attachment of a first metallization layer, cleaning the component to eliminate the impurities from its surface, depositing a first metallization layer, having mainly titanium, on the surface of the component, depositing a second metallization layer, having mainly niobium, on the first metallization layer, applying the part against the second metallization layer, depositing a gold brazing metal on the part and the second metallization layer, cooling the brazed area in a temperature-controlled manner, and stress-relieving heat treatment being performed under load on the metal part before brazing.

A method for manufacturing at least one synchronizing ring includes providing a rough-turned blank made from a hardenable material that is in a not-hardened state and laser-cutting the rough-turned blank to form the at least one synchronizing ring, the laser cutting being performed with an energy chosen to be sufficient to selectively harden at least a portion of the material in a region along which the laser cutting occurs.

The invention relates to a cleaning device for internal cleaning of drain or sewer pipes comprising at least one chain comprising several chain links, two end parts, to one of which one end of the chain/chains is/are fastened and to another of which another end of the chain/chains is fastened, which end parts each comprise a central opening, through which a rotatable element extends. At least some of the chain links of at least one chain of the cleaning device have substantially rectangular outer form having at least one right-angled corner and that these chain links are of hard metal. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing a chain for the cleaning device, in which the chain links are made by cutting from a hard metal plate, for example by laser cutting.

A method of manufacturing an undercarriage track joint assembly includes forming at least a first portion of a seal assembly by laser brazing an annular, metal sealing washer to a first track link of the undercarriage track joint assembly. The method may also include performing the laser brazing to form at least one of an annular fillet of braze material between the first track link and at least a portion of an inner diameter surface of the washer and an annular fillet of braze material between the first track link and at least a portion of an outer diameter surface of the washer. The method may still further include inserting a second portion of the seal assembly into a counterbore formed in an axial face of a second track link of the track joint assembly such that an axial sealing face of the washer opposite from the first track link slidably engages with the second portion of the seal assembly on the second track link of the track joint assembly to form a sealing surface between the first and second track links.

A method and an apparatus for chain welding a chain starting from a chain composed of open C-shaped chain links uses a conveying wheel which receives one or more chain links of the chain and positions them for welding. The conveying wheel is a double chain wheel, the two pocket wheels of which receive a respective chain link of two chain strands of the chain. In each sequence of welding of a chain link, the conveying wheel is displaced relative to a welding device transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the chain and then occupies a welding position in which a chain link to be welded, as chain link that is vertical in the conveying wheel, faces the welding device and the open ends thereof are welded. This sequence is repeated, allowing that chain links of the two chain strands are alternately welded in the chain wheel.

A choker cable having its end portions encapsulated by ferrules, wherein the cable wire ends extend at least to the distal ends of the ferrule sleeves, and wherein the wire ends are all fused into a mushroom shaped cap structure and wherein peripheral portions of the cap structure overlie the distal ends of the ferrule sleeves.