Patent ID: 8262336

Claim:
A welding system comprising the following elements: one or more welding gas bottles having a circular base, a support tray on a welding machine for supporting said one or more welding gas bottles in a predetermined location, said support tray having a supporting portion below said circular base of said welding gas bottles and having a non-supporting section below said circular base of said welding gas bottles, a moving device for moving said one or more welding gas bottles, said moving device having a supporting portion below said circular base of said welding gas bottles and having a non-supporting section below said circular base of said welding gas bottles, such that when said device for moving said one or more welding gas bottles positions said one or more welding gas bottles in said predetermined location, said supporting portion of said moving device is not over in the same vertical area as said supporting portion of said support tray, and further comprising said tray supporting portion having two spaced apart areas and said tray non-supporting portion being an area between said tray supporting portion and said moving device support portion having a central portion to fit between said spaced apart areas.