1. Function: Special Welding Machine covers various designs on structures and specifications, implementing on various welding tasks with special requirement. It is usually in the form of special design and tailer made;
1) Gantry Welding Machine, with different welding modes and configurations, accommodating on broad range of workpiece specifications;
2) Longitudinal Seam Welding Machine, especially with high precision welding on thin wall Barrels;
3) Other Special Welding Machine with special welding modes, such as built up welding, strap cladding, P+T (Plasma welding plus TIG welding), etc.;
4) Welding trolley/ cart/ vehicle of different dimensions, with remote control;
Welding modes:
1) SAW (Submerged arc welding) – Large current on medium to thick wall workpieces (6- 30mm, often 12mm), usually as finished welding;
2) GMAW CO2 gas shielded welding – Smaller current, either as finished welding on thin wall workpieces (Less than 10mm), or as back welding before finished SAW welding;
3) TIG Tungsten inert gas welding – Higher cost, velocity and precision welding, usually being applied on high strength materials;
4) MIG Melt inert gas welding – Usually being applied on weathering materials;
The finished welding seam from these Special Welding Equipment can be in the form of:
1) Strap cladding, build up welding;
2) Back welding;
3) Finished cover welding ...
The welding operation in Special Welding Equipment can be implemented on different kinds of workpieces:
1) Cylindrical workpieces: Tube/ pipe/ cylinder/ barrel/ pressure vessels;
2) Steel structure workpieces;
3) Special workpieces, such as electric light pole, long rod, etc.;
Welding seams can be in the form of:
1) Longitudinal seam;
2) Circumferential seam;
3) Or both;
4) Internal and or external welding;
Wuxi JACK LH50 model external circumferential seam and Longitudinal Seam Welding Machine on balloons: (Fig.1)
In practical application, Special Welding Machine comes in various forms of specific structure/ overall dimension/ operation mode, being applied in nearly every corner of manufacturing industry:
1) Pipe Welding Machine: Fulfilling back welding/ build up welding/ finished welding on cylindrical workpieces;
2) Circumferential and Longitudinal Seam Welding Machine: Carry out longitudinal seam or circumferential seam welding, or both, on various materials and sizes of tubes and pipes, fabricating on internal and external wall of workpieces;
3) Gantry Welding Machine: Usually in medium to large scale overall dimension, with flat gantry or box gantry frame. The gantry frame can be of stationary or motor drive moving type, for performing welding on large workpieces. The Gantry Welding Machine is usually equipped with welding fixtures or other equipment, especially Welding Rotator (Welding Roller Bed), to serve as holding and rotating unit for barrel workpieces:
Wuxi JACK LHG1500 model Gantry Welding Machine, with 2 pieces of V brackets to hold on long pipes: (Fig.2)
4) Welding Fixture: Very important supplementary equipment on welding operation, basically with special design and produced, to secure workpieces reliably during welding, sometimes involved with moving function:
Wuxi JACK welding trolley for welding laboratory of a Chinese engineering university in December 2025 year: (Fig.3)
1) Special Design and Variation: These Special Welding Equipment come into being and are put into use case by case: It is developed every time under customer personalized demand. So, it has wide variety of forms, no “standard” type;
2) Operation: Put into use of Special Welding Machine focuses on put into practice certain type of welding mode, on certain type of workpiece, usually special designed and manufactured. Here we pick up 4 business cases in this page, as applicating examples of Wuxi JACK Special Welding Equipment, from year 2009 to 2025;
3) Workpiece Fixture: Considering different types and tonnages of workpieces and requirement, on site operation of Special Welding Machine usually involves assistant support from Welding Fixture.
1) This is Special Welding Equipment for completing SAW welding on long and straight longitudinal seam, on large diameter structure members. Here in this business case, customer plan to use it on welding electric light pole;
2) Design sketch on applicable electric light pole to be fabricated in LHG model machine: (Fig.3)
a) Length ranges from 9,000mm to 16,000mm;
b) Longitudinal Slant Angle: The electric light pole is in slant length direction shape. The inclination angle along its entire length is ≦8° (a=(D-d)/L);
c) Cross Section Diameter: Variable long the entire length, from Φ300mm (Small end) to Φ2,500mm (Large end);
d) Electric Light Pole Max. Weight: 6 Ton;
1) Welding Operation: Implement on finished SAW welding on the electric light pole, following back welding. The SAW welding seam has advantages of: Deep fusion, broad face, and good appearance;
2) To acquire ideal welding performance, and also for convenient operation and observance, the workpiece (Electric light pole) should be placed in the orientation of its welding seam at 12 o’clock position;
3) The finished workpiece has joint line in the form of external longitudinal welding seam;
1) Considering the large size of machine BOX frame: 4,000mm height, 3,600mm width, and 3,300mm deep, the gantry movement guiderails are of vital importance: It is identical with that of large CNC Cutting Machine, the precise honing type rails;
2) The reason is, during movement of gantry (For carrying out welding operation), any small impact or shake may pose obvious effect on steady operation of welding gun, which in turn affects on welding quality;
a) Double drive of gantry frame: Both sides of the gantry are installed with A.C. motor reducer;
b) VFD (Variable frequency drive) on smooth and continuous adjustment on moving speed (Longitudinal welding speed);
c) Gantry movement guiderails are of the CNC Cutting Machine type: High precision honing rails: (Fig.4)
| Applicable Workpiece | Electric Light Pole and other long structure workpieces |
| Welding Technique | SAW, for completing on finished longitudinal seam welding |
| Workpiece Length L | 9,000- 16,000mm |
| Workpiece Large End Diameter D | ≦Φ2,500mm |
| Workpiece Small End Diameter d | ≥Φ300mm |
| Electric Light Pole Taper | a=8°(a=(D-d)/L) |
| Electric Light Pole Weight | ≦6 ton |
| Gantry Frame Movement Speed (SAW Welding Speed) | 200- 2,000 mm/min., A.C. inverter control |
| Gantry Frame Movement Drive Motor | 2 x 1.1kW, double drive |
| Gantry Frame Movement Guiding Rail | 24kg/m, precise honing |
| Welding Torch Horizontal Movement Drive Motor | 0.2kW |
| Internal Platform Elevation Drive Motor | 2.2kW |
| Internal Platform Elevation Speed | 1,500 mm/min., constant |
| No. | Item and Specification | Quantity |
| 1 | Welding torch carriage, plus motor reducer | 2 sets |
| 2 | Horizontal direction regulator, stroke 200mm | 2 pieces |
| 3 | Vertical direction regulator, stroke 200mm | 2 pieces |
| 4 | 4,000mm length horizontal beam, high precision guiderail and rack | 2 sets |
| 5 | Bracket of welding wire spool | 2 pieces |
| 6 | Bracket of welding power supply control console | 2 sets |
| 7 | Bracket of welding current/ voltage digital display | 2 pieces |
| 8 | Bracket of welding torch carriage and modulator | 2 pieces |
| 9 | Electric control system, cables and drag chain | 2 sets |
| 10 | SAW welding machine DC-1000+NA-3 (Prepared by customer) | 2 sets |
| 11 | SAW welding machine cables (Prepared by customer) | 2 sets |
| Door Gantry Horizontal Beam Length | 4,000mm |
| Valid Horizontal Stroke of Welding Carriage | 3,400mm |
| Welding Velocity | 100- 1000 mm/min., controlled with A.C. inverter |
| Welding Velocity Adjustment | VFD, variable frequency drive |
| SAW Welding Wire Diameter | Φ2.4- 5.6mm, solid wire |
| SAW Welding Current | 150- 1,300A |
| Vertical and Horizontal Adjusting Stroke of Welding Head | 200mm, Manual |
| Welding Carriage Movement Transmission | Gear and Rack Couple |
| Welding Carriage Travel Guideway | Precise Ball Bearing Linear Guideway |
| Welding Torch Tilting Range | -30°- 30° |
| Height of Gantry Welding Machine | Based on 700mm Height Work table |
| Distance between Welding Torch and front side of Gantry Beam | 400- 500mm |
1) Usage: As its name suggests, this machine implements on the entire length longitudinal seam butt welding on thin wall cylindrical workpieces;
2) Material of the thin wall barrel workpieces is often non-ferrous metal: Alloy steel, stainless steel, Al alloy;
3) The welding technique is high precision type: TIG, plasma welding, MIG, etc. The back side of welding seam is with water cooling copper pads, help forceful formation of welding seam. This is similar to welding operation in Steel Plate Butt Welding Machine;
4) Advantage of the machine: By means of hanging type, workpiece snap into and take out is convenient. The machine has good appearance, convenient operation, and reliable performance;
Depending on specific model of the machine,
a) Diameter: Φ180- 1200mm;
b) Pipe Wall Thickness: 0.3- 6mm;
c) Pipe/ Barrel Length: 1,000- 3,000mm;
d) Pipe Material: Stainless steel, Al, alloy, carbon steel, etc.;
This Special Welding Machine is composed of:
1) Worktable: Steel structure assembly, with sufficient rigidity and strength. Front side of worktable is installed with locking unit, making sure the minimum deformation of mandrel, after being exerted with pressure;
2) Horizontal Beam: A rectangular steel structure component, precisely grinded, and assembled with high precision ball bearing linear guiderail, making sure precision of welding torch movement, and hence linearity of longitudinal welding seam to be formed;
a) This important component is finely produced with high quality steel. It is processed with rigorous heat treatment, making sure no deformation and high strength;
| Machine Model | LW1000/ LW1500/ LW2000 / LW2500/ LW3000 |
| Maximum Length of Cylinder | 1000mm/ 1500mm/ 2000mm / 2500mm/ 3000mm |
| Cylinder Diameter | ø180- 800mm/ ø200- 1000mm/ ø260- 1000mm/ ø300- 1000mm / ø400- 1200mm |
| Cylinder Wall Thickness | 0.3- 5mm/ 0.4- 6mm/ 0.5- 6mm/ 0.5- 6mm / 0.5- 6mm |
| Longitudinal Welding Speed | 150- 1500(mm/min. |
| Welding Torch Positioning Precision | ±0.2mm/m |
| Welding Technique | High precision TIG, MIG, MAG, Plasma, GMAW |
| Max. Welding Current | 300A |
| Longitudinal Welding Purpose | Thin plate butt welding, thin wall pipe Longitudinal Seam welding |
| Cylinder and Pipe Material | Carbon steel, Stainless steel, Alloy steel, Al |
| Air Bag Pressure for Clamp on Workpiece | 0- 7kg/cm2 |
| Interval between 2 Arrays of Piano Keys | 5- 20mm |
| Way of Operating on Piano Keys | Double act foot pedal switch |
1) Function: Built up welding, the other names as surface hard facing, or roller strap cladding, is for depositing a layer of hard facing on surface of workpiece, especially cylinder bodies, to prevent the workpieces from growing worn, thus extending its service life;
2) The core technique here is hard facing welding operation, which should select qualified welding power supply, welding head, and supplementary function units;
3) Built up welding can be either applied with this Special Welding Equipment introduced here, or with Column and Boom Welding Machine.
1) The welding mode for roller strap cladding is usually adopts with SAW (Submerged arc welding), which features in small welding current and large welding voltage, rendering thin layer of hard facing formed on external face of cylindrical workpieces;
2) Workpiece Support: During work, the cylindrical workpiece is support on a set of Welding Rotator (Welding Roller Bed), which drives and leads workpiece into revolve, for fulfilling on hard facing welding operation;
3) Built up welding speed equals to rotating linear speed of welding turning roller. It should be adjusted by means of A.C. inverter, and displayed in real time;
4) Welding torch movement along transverse beam of the Special Welding Machine, carrying out strap cladding built up welding in the constant pitch, attaining the purpose of hard facing on surface of workpiece.
1) Electric Control: The entire work process of roller strap cladding welding is controlled with PLC (Programmable logic controller) on logic control, and A.C. inverter on welding speed management;
2) Welding speed is modulated with variable frequency drive, and being instantaneously shown in digital display of operation panel;
3) Duty cycle of roller strap cladding welding can be up to 100%.