Gripping apparatus of a lifting device, especially in a core reactor for setting down and lifting fuel elements and fuel rods
A gripping and lifting device is described for use with fuel elements and control rod means in a nuclear core reactor in which a carriage having a winch thereon supports a mast beneath the carriage in which is slidable a tubular body within which, in turn, is slidable a housing. Cables lead from the winch to the first body for vertical movement thereof while the housing has limited axial movement in the aforementioned body. On the lower end of the housing are two gripper devices, one for engagement with the control rods and the other for engagement with the fuel element. Separate actuators are provided for the two grippers, and sensing devices are included in the structure for sensing the positions of the grippers. A feature of the arrangement is that when the body is elevated and the housing moves downwardly therein to a stopped position, the gripper for the fuel element is locked in its respective position.
- Assignee:
- Fried, Krupp Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
- Patent Number(s):
- US 3945514
- Application Number:
- TRN: 76-014408
- OSTI ID:
- 7351803
- Resource Relation:
- Patent Priority Date: Priority date 19 Feb 1974, German, Federal Republic of (F.R. Germany)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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