Continuous pile discharging machine

Patent · 11 May 1976

OSTI ID:862533

Smith, Phillips P ^[1]

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1. Richland, WA

A device for discharging cartridges from tubes under fluid pressure includes a cylindrical housing adapted to be seated in a leak-tight manner on the end of one of the tubes, a chute depending from the cylindrical housing near the end seated on the end of the tube, a rotatable piston having a wrench on the forward end thereof disposed in the cylindrical housing and adapted to manipulate a plug in the end of the tube, and a telescopic hydraulic ram adapted to move the piston toward the plug. In addition the wrench contains a magnet which prevents inadvertent uncoupling of the wrench and the plug.

• Research Organization: Knolls Atomic Power Lab
• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-52
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 3956062
• OSTI ID: 862533
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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/376/414/976/
adapted
addition
cartridges
charging machine
chute
contains
continuous
cylindrical
cylindrical housing
depending
device
discharging
disposed
fluid
fluid pressure
forward
housing
housing adapted
hydraulic
inadvertent
leak-tight
leak-tight manner
machine
magnet
manipulate
manner
move
near
pile
piston
plug
pressure
prevents
rotatable
seated
telescopic
tube
tubes
uncoupling
wrench