ROTARY SELECTOR PERMITTING VARIABLE COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ESTABLISHED BETWEEN AN ASSEMBLY OF PASSAGEWAYS TRAVERSED BY A FLUID

Patent · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1964

OSTI ID:4114840

Donguy, R; Roguin, A; Megy, J

A rotary selector was designed to permit variable communications to be established between an assembly of passageways traversed by a fluid. The selector is used to determine which channel is being traversed by a fluid charged with radioactive products escaping from the core of fuel elements during fission of their casing. The rotary selector valve consists of a stationary valve casing, an internal chamber in the casing, a base fixed to the casing, a plurality of first ports in the member spaced at predetermined angular distance with two of the ports spaced at a multiple of this distance about a circle centered on the axis, a plurality of fluid conduits, a plate rotatably mounted about the axis, a plurality of second ports in the plate for registration with the first ports, a plurality of closures carried by the plate between the second ports for closing the first ports, and a control device for step-by-step rotation of the plate in either direction im steps equal to the angular distance between two adjacent closures. (M.C.G.)

• Research Organization: Originating Research Org. not identified
• NSA Number: NSA-18-009600
• Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
• Patent Number(s): US 3116757
• OSTI ID: 4114840
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CLOSURES
CONTAMINATION
COOLANT LOOPS
FAILURES
FISSION PRODUCTS
FLUID FLOW
FUEL ELEMENTS
JOINTS
LEAKS
MACHINE PARTS
MEASURED VALUES
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
MONITORING
MOTORS
PATENT
PERFORMANCE
PIPES
PLANNING
PLATES
RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIOACTIVITY
REACTOR CORE
REACTOR SAFETY
REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
REACTORS
REMOTE CONTROL
ROTATION
SAMPLING
SERVOMECHANISMS
TUBES
VALVES