My invention relates to built-up steel beams naving solid webs or inserted web members joined to flange members by continuous butt welds. My invention relates particularly to girders having depths and/or web dimensions greater than standard rolled beams, and the method of fabricating same....

Construction elements of predetermined cross-sectional profiles are formed of wood, plastic and/or metal. These construction elements are useful in building construction, preformed panel systems and preformed truss structures. The shapes of the construction elements are also adaptable to a toy construction set.

Steel beam and method of making same

Construction systems and elements thereof

Blade edge welding technique

Nickel-base radiant tube includes straight and curved elbow tube sections. The straight tube section has constant inner and outer radii. The elbow tube section has a constant inner radius and variable outer radius. The inner diameter of the elbow tube section is equal the inner radius of the straight tube section. Mating end portion of the elbow tube section has an outer radius equal to the outer radius of the straight tube section. Method for making the radiant tube comprises the steps of positioning a mating end portion of the straight tube section adjacent to and aligned with the mating end portion of the elbow tube section so that end faces of the straight and elbow tube sections face each other to define a circumferentially extending weld groove, and butt welding the mating end portions of the straight and elbow tube sections together at the weld groove.

Nickel-base radiant tube and method for making the same

A method of forming and using a metal I-beam includes hot rolling an elongated metal workpiece to establish a web and a pair of flanges on the edges thereof. The web is formed with elongated reinforcement of solid cross-section having a generally straight longitudinal axis oriented generally parallel to the flanges. The hot rolled I-beam is cooled without forming substantial waves in the web and the I-beam is subsequently secured in a building construction or other structural product. The method involves the longitudinally oriented reinforcing means which preferably are one or more elongated laterally projecting ribs having such mass that the average temperature of the web prior to cooling will be sufficiently close to the average temperature of the flanges prior to cooling that the formation of waves within the web during cooling will be resisted. The reinforcement is preferably coextensive with the I-beam. The web is preferably substantially continuous. A corresponding I-beam and the use of the I-beam in a load bearing position in a building or other structural product are disclosed.

Steel beam and method of making same

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Construction systems and elements thereof

Blade edge welding technique

Nickel-base radiant tube and method for making the same

Method of making an improved hot rolled I-beam and associated product

Crusher main frame