Patent ID: 8813531

Claim:
An assembly for moving wire from a wire storage unit to a welding gun, comprising: a first unit comprising a wire straightener, said wire straightener having: a hollow inlet guide tube for receiving said wire from said wire storage unit a wire guide sheave mounted in the first unit such that a bottom edge of the wire guide sheave contacts a wire being processed through the unit; a first roll straightener sheave rotatably mounted in the first unit beneath the wire guide sheave; a center sheave rotatably mounted in the first unit forward of the first roll straightener sheave; a second roll straightener sheave rotatably mounted forward of the center sheave; said first roll straightener sheave and said second roll straightener sheave having linearly aligned axes of rotation; a second unit comprising a wire drive, puller and driver, said wire drive puller and driver having a housing with first and second openings, each of said first and second openings having a guide bushing therein, one of the bushings having mounted therein an outlet guide tube, said outlet guide tube extending rearwardly from said housing; and an idler drive roll and a driven drive roll rotatably mounted within the second unit housing, said idler roll and said drive roll contacting each other on a portion of their respective outer circumferential surfaces; the second unit housing mounted on a mounting block, the mounting block being removably attached to a mounting plate of the first unit by a fastener positioned in a slotted vertical opening in the mounting plate.