Split guide bushing for vertical pulverizers
AssigneeBabcock Power Services, Inc.
InventorsGeorge King, Joshua Creelman, William Freeman
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Abstract
A guide bushing for a tensioning rod in a vertical pulverizer includes a bushing body having a substantially cylindrical interior bushing surface configured and adapted to moveably engage a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer. The bushing body is divided circumferentially about the bushing surface into a plurality of sections joined together. The sections are configured and adapted to separate from one another for installation and removal of the bushing body about a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer.
Claims20
A guide bushing for a tensioning rod in a vertical pulverizer comprising:
- a bushing body having a substantially cylindrical interior bushing surface configured and adapted to moveably engage a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer, wherein the bushing body is divided circumferentially about the bushing surface into a plurality of sections joined together, the sections being configured and adapted to separate from one another for installation and removal of the bushing body about a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer.
A guide bushing section for use with a vertical pulverizer comprising:
- a bushing body section having a bushing surface configured and adapted to moveably engage a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer and a mating surface configured and adapted to engage a mating surface of at least one other bushing body section to form a guide bushing about a tensioning rod in a vertical pulverizer.
A guide bushing for use with a vertical pulverizer comprising:
- an elongate bushing body defining a longitudinal axis and including a cylindrical portion coaxially joined at one end to a frustoconical portion converging away from the cylindrical portion, wherein the frustoconical portion defines an inward bushing surface therethrough along the longitudinal axis configured and adapted for moveable engagement with a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer, and wherein the elongate bushing body is divided substantially in half circumferentially about the longitudinal axis into a pair of substantially symmetrical bushing body sections configured and adapted to be joined together about a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer, and to be separated from one another for installation onto and removal from a vertical pulverizer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.