Patent ID: 9713861
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: B21F,B23K,B23P,F01D,F05D

Claim:
1. An additive manufacturing system: a wire delivery assembly arranged and disposed to deliver a wire feed to a fabrication assembly arrangement; the fabrication assembly arrangement includes a wire manipulation assembly, the wire manipulation assembly being arranged and disposed to convert the wire feed into a wire segment and position the wire segment on a workpiece positioner to form a workpiece stack, the workpiece positioner being arranged and disposed to provide multiple axis motion to the workpiece stack during assembly; an energy beam source assembly arranged and disposed to direct one or more energy beams toward one or more aligned surfaces of adjacent wire segments within the workpiece stack, to weld the wire segments together, wherein the wire delivery assembly includes an orientation device arranged and disposed to align one or more surfaces of the wire segment in a predetermined direction, and wherein the orientation device includes one or more straightening rollers.