US Patent Issued to EL Cooper Properties on March 24 for "Orientation and guide mechanism for non-circular weld wire" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,049, issued on March 24, was assigned to EL Cooper Properties LLC (Clarklake, Mich.).

"Orientation and guide mechanism for non-circular weld wire" was invented by Edward L. Cooper (Clarklake, Mich.) and Steven J. Hayes (Addison, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orientation and guide mechanism for a welding system includes a pair of opposed guide members. A weld wire having a non-round cross-section is fed through a guide passageway formed between the guide members, each of which have recessed channels that combine to define the guide passageway. The guide passageway has a non-round shape corresponding to the non-round shape o...