Gulf States Saw & Machine Co., Inc. has been providing professional fabrication equipment to professional fabricators since 1992. The nerve center of our operations is in Hueytown, Alabama, where we can serve our ten-state region effortlessly. Gulf States Saw & Machine Co., Inc. is the sister company to Alabama Tool & Supply Co., Inc. which was founded in 1979. We are a family owned and operated business.
Each conveyor section can hold approximately 4,000 pounds. To minimize wear caused by friction between turning rollers and slower-moving beams at the welder exit, conveyor speeds must be synchronized.
FRANKLIN MODEL PTW72 is a complete Automatic Submerged Twin-arc Welding System. It can fixture and weld three-piece built-up beams made up of a web, two flanges and a web. The PTW-72 can hold 72 inches of web and has flange capacities up to 20 inches wide x 1 inch thick. The length of a complete PTW72 fabricating cell is up to 300 ft. It includes a web loading gantry with web seam station, tackstation unit, 4020 CNC Flange Loading Gantry, and a PTW72 Pull Thru welder with CNC controls.
These may seem very similar but when you look at all of them, they are vastly different. Beam layout welding beams are typically heavier and denser then I beams. This means the former can absorb and take up more force.
H beams are typically thinner than H beams. The H beam's top flange and its bottom flange stick out more from the web than the I beam's. However, the flanges for H beams are both shorter and narrower.
They can be used for many different purposes because they have the ability to bend, compress at the top and be tensioned at the bottom. These are just a few reasons I beams might be useful. There are many other benefits, such as the flexible design.
The WS-72 web-seamer station has a Lincoln Power Wave AC/DC welding machine and Max-Sa controls. Unique magnets pull web plates to the copper backing-up bar. Copper back-up bars are designed with a small flux groove that is fixed into an aluminum water-cooled bar.
A welded beam consists of three individual sections of steel – a web, a top flange and a bottom flange. These segments are merged together with deep fillet welds to create an incredibly robust building material.