Patent ID: 7687742
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: B23K

Abstract:
1. A method of welding with a welding gun and a welding wire feeder, said method comprising: feeding a consumable welding wire into a first end of a welding wire feeder, through a wire gripping device of said welding wire feeder, out of a second end of said welding wire feeder, and into a welding gun; adjusting a force generator of said wire gripping device of said welding wire feeder from a first force position being within a first soft wire range of continuously adjustable force positions to a second force position being within a second hard wire range of continuously adjustable force positions; and adjusting said force generator of said wire gripping device of said welding wire feeder from said second force position being within said second hard wire range of continuously adjustable force positions to a third force position being within said second hard wire range of continuously adjustable force positions.