Tool for delivery of testing element to a limited access location within a nuclear containment
AssigneeWestinghouse Electric Corp.
InventorKEVIN J. FOLEY
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Abstract
An improved tool for delivery of a testing element to a limited access location within a nuclear containment includes a rotation apparatus having a connection element that is configured to have an aperture that is formed generally centrally therein. The aperture is structured to receive therein a cable that extends from a testing element, which that avoids the need to use slip rings or similar devices to permit the testing element to carried on a pivotable and rotatable structure. Moreover, an improved submersible machine is structured to carry the tool to a limited access location within a nuclear containment.
Claims6
An elongated tool for delivering a testing element of a testing apparatus to a limited access location within a nuclear containment, the testing apparatus further having a connecter and having a cable extending between the testing element and the connecter, the tool comprising:
- a frame apparatus comprising an elongated first frame portion and an elongated second frame portion;
- a pivot apparatus disposed between the first and second frame portions and being structured to permit at least one of the first frame portion and the second frame portion to be pivotable with respect to the other of the first frame portion and the second frame portion;
- a rotation apparatus disposed between the first and second frame portions and connected with the pivot apparatus, the rotation apparatus being structured to permit at least one of the first frame portion and the second frame portion to be rotatable about its axis of elongation with respect to the other of the first frame portion and the second frame portion;
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- the rotation apparatus comprising a connection element disposed on one of the first frame portion and the second frame portion and being situated substantially adjacent the pivot apparatus, the connection element having an aperture formed generally centrally therein that is structured to receive the cable therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.