Patent ID: 7105768
Filing Date: 2006-09-12
Classification: B23K

Abstract:
1. A fixed electrode tip take-out device for taking out welding electrode tips from a tip magazine to be engaged with shanks of a welder, the fixed electrode tip take-out device comprising a tip magazine having a plurality of semi-cylindrical through holes provided therein, the through holes being provided adjacent to one another, boundary portions of respective through holes being partitioned by elastic boundary walls in which wedges are inserted in the same direction as the axis of each through hole and each through hole being open at one end, a pair of electrode tips provided vertically opposite to each other in at least one of the through holes, a base plate, a slide plate fixed to the base plate and in contact with the lowest end portion of the lower electrode tip of the pair of electrode tips, a driving unit for effecting relative movement between the tip magazine and the base plate and stoppers fixed to their base plate for positioning the pair of electrode tips to be removed from the tip magazine and affixed to the shanks of the welder.