Extendable pipe crawler
A pipe crawler is described having a front leg assembly and a back leg assembly connected together by two air cylinders, each leg assembly having four extendable legs and a pair of actuators for sliding the extendable legs radially outward to increase the range of the legs when the pipe crawler enters a section of a pipe having a larger diameter. The crawler crawls by inchworm'-like motion, the front leg assembly and back leg assembly alternately engaging and disengaging the wall of the pipe to hold the pipe crawler as the air cylinders alternately advance the front leg assembly and bring up the rear leg assembly. The pair of actuators of each leg assembly are parallel, adjacent and opposing acting so that each slides two adjacent extendable legs radially outward. 5 figures.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-76SR00001
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 5018451; A
- Application Number:
- PPN: US 7-461591
- OSTI ID:
- 7275502
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 5 Jan 1990
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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