US Patent Issued to LINDE on Nov. 3 for "Plasma arc torch consumable holder" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,145, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LINDE GMBH (Pullach, Germany).

"Plasma arc torch consumable holder" was invented by Erwan Siewert (Pullach, Germany), Nakhleh A. Hussary (Pullach, Germany) and Richard Andreas Wagner (Pullach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consumables holder assembly for a plasma arc torch having a torch head, the consumables holder assembly comprising a main body, a shielding cup which engages to the main body, a connector which engages the main body to the torch head. Consumable components including an electrode, a nozzle, a plasma gas distributor, a shielding gas distributor are all positioned insid...