Background of This Blog on Balloon Longitudinal and Annular Seam Welding Machine:
1) Business Case: In April 2023, Wuxi JACK delivered 1 set of LH50 Longitudinal and Annular Seam Cylinder Welding Machine for a Russian customer based in Novosibirsk region. Now, over 2 months elapsed, since its put into use at customer facility;
2) Use Value: Cylinder Welding Equipment is kind of basic machinery in manufacturing industry, especially utilizing cylindrical parts as its workpieces. Correspondingly, different specifications Cylinder Welding Machine has wide application at customer side;
3) Topics Here on Cylinder Longitudinal and Circumferential Seam Welding Machine:
Functions and Main Specifications of LH50 Cylinder Annular and Longitudinal Seam Welding Machine;
Main Components and Structure of LH50 Cylinder Longitudinal and Circumferential Seam Welding Machine;
Put into Use on LH50 Annular and Longitudinal Seam Cylinder Welding Machine;
Summary on Wuxi JACK Longitudinal and Annular Cylinder Welding Equipment
A. Functions and Main Specifications of LH50 Cylinder Annular and Longitudinal Seam Welding Machine:
1. 2 Types of Finished Welding Seams: This Cylinder Welding Equipment carries out circumferential and longitudinal welding on external surfaces of workpieces, by means of single group of welding torch system;
2. Welding Mode in the Longitudinal and Annular Seam Cylinder Welding Machine:
1) It can be SAW/ TIG/ GMAW/ MIG... Any technically available welding mode in industry;
2) In this business case, customer selects SAW:
SAW being validated on Wuxi JACK LH50 longitudinal and Circumferential Seam Welding Machine: (Fig.1)
3) Conceivably, any other welding mode can be adopted in the Cylinder Welding Machine, by just replacing welding torch/ welding power supplies and its supplementary units;
3. Welding Speed in the Circumferential and Longitudinal Cylinder Welding Equipment:
1) Based on workpiece wall thickness and welding technology, welding velocity here can be adjusted within the range of 100 ~ 1000 mm/min., by means of A.C. inverter;
2) Here adjustable speed covers both longitudinal and circumferential direction;
3) So, electric control system of this special made Longitudinal and Annular Seam Welding Machine has 2 pieces of A.C. inverters, which share the same piece of digital display;
4. Applicable Cylinder Sizes for LH50 Balloon Longitudinal and Annular Seam Welding Machine:
This Cylinder Welding Equipment covers the whole range of common applied small to medium size balloon working parts:
1) Balloon diameters is from Φ200mm to Φ500mm;
2) Balloon lengths is from 300mm to 1600mm;
3) Balloon max. allowable weight is around 3 Ton.
B. Main Components and Structure of LH50 Cylinder Longitudinal and Circumferential Seam Welding Machine:
Indicated as below, appearance of the LH50 Balloon Annular and Longitudinal Seam Welding Machine at customer workshop: (Fig.2)
1 Mechanical base bed, fixed into workshop floor with anchor bolts;
2. 2 Moving Side Workpiece Fixture of the Balloon Longitudinal and Annular Cylinder Welding Machine:
1) This is for the purpose of catering on varied length of balloons, ranging from 300mm to 1600mm;
2) Handwheel is installed at its end, to manually drive fixture moving laterally, to clamp the cylinders firmly into the Cylinder Welding Machine;
3. 3 Fixed Side Workpiece Fixture of the Balloon Annular and Longitudinal Cylinder Welding Equipment:
1) This is a piece of vertical orientated 3 jaw chuck, to tightly clamp the balloon (cylinder) into it:
2) Fixed side workpiece balloon clamp (Inside yellow color frame) and holding rollers (Inside orange color frame) of the balloon Longitudinal and Annular Seam Welding Machine: (Fig.3)
3) Here, the 2 groups of workpiece rolling supporting rack work under identical style as Welding Rotator, especially when the Cylinder Welding Equipment works as an Annular Seam Welding Machine;
4. 4 Horizontal Boom of the Balloon Circumferential and Longitudinal Seam Welding Machine:
1) This unit is for installing the welding torch moving carriage, and guiding its horizontal movement in horizontal way:
2) When the Cylinder Welding Equipment works as a Longitudinal Seam Welding Machine, the welding torch moves along this horizontal beam under welding speed;
5. 5 Welding Torch Working Group of the Balloon Longitudinal and Circumferential Seam Welding Machine:
1) This is working hand of the balloon Cylinder Welding Machine;
2) It accomplishes both directions (Longitudinal and annular) welding during work;
3) As can be seen from below photo, the horizontal and vertical direction movement of welding torch are guided with precise linear guiderails, fully guaranteeing positioning and welding accuracy of the Cylinder Welding Equipment:
4) Welding torch unit (Marked as “5”) and SAW control console (Marked as “6”) of the Balloon Longitudinal and Circumferential Seam Welding Machine: (Fig.4)
6. 6 SAW Control Console and Operating Panel of the Longitudinal and Annular Seam Cylinder Welding Equipment:
1) Shown in the above photo, control console is supplying range of SAW welding power supply;
2) It controls and displays welding current/ voltage/ velocity of the Cylinder Welding Machine, by turning corresponding knobs on the face panel;
3) Summing up, the entire layout / composition and working style of this Longitudinal and Annular Seam Cylinder Welding Machine is similar to CNC Pipe Intersection Cutting Machine. It has very good performance at customer facility.
C. Put into Use on LH50 Annular and Longitudinal Seam Cylinder Welding Machine:
Below photo was taken at Russian customer workshop of the balloon Longitudinal and Circumferential Seam Welding Machine: (Fig.5)
1. Overall Dimension: This Cylinder Welding Equipment has total length of around 3500mm, operating height of 1500mm, depth of around 1100mm, very compact in regular shape;
2. Location and Installation: So, it is convenient and easy to transport/ locate/ relocate and adjust on position of the Cylinder Welding Machine in the workshop, depending on process route and layout of product on site;
3. Daily Operation on the Cylinder Longitudinal and Circumferential Seam Welding Machine:
1) Every day use of the Longitudinal and Annular Seam Welding Machine is also user friendly:
2) Operator can manage on balloon welding and monitor on operating progress, within his/ her arm’s length, eliminate unnecessary moving around as much as possible, within working zone of the Cylinder Welding Equipment;
4. Upgrade On Balloon Annular and Longitudinal Seam Welding Machine:
1) As can be found from the above discussion, this Cylinder Welding Machine has modular design and structure;
2) So, when customer needs to adopt other welding mode in addition to SAW, for example, MIG/ TIG/ GMAW...
3) The upgrade on the Cylinder Welding Equipment is quick and easy: Just substitute the existing SAW welding group with new welding group.
D. Summary on Wuxi JACK Longitudinal and Annular Cylinder Welding Equipment:
1. Novelty of this Cylinder Welding Machine: Traditionally, Cylinder Welding Equipment has solitary welding function: Either circumferential welding, or longitudinal welding. Comparatively, the LH50 Cylinder Welding Machine here has both types of welding functions;
2. Wuxi JACK Strength: As an eminent engineering based company in Welding and Cutting Machinery industry, Wuxi JACK is good at developing various standard and special made Cylinder Welding Equipment for customers across the globe.
