US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on June 23 for "Welding system with support base" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,733, issued on June 23, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Welding system with support base" was invented by Mark Christopher (Neenah, Wis.), Adam Richard Schmitz (Neenah, Wis.) and Connor Denis Uitenbroek (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example wire feeder includes: a wire supply support configured to supply welding wire; a wire drive assembly configured to feed wire to a welding gun from the wire supply support; a support base defining a lower surface, the wire supply support and the wire drive assembly supported by the support base, the support base being pivotable from an operational pos...