Tank Inspection Systems and Methods

Abstract

A tank inspection system of the present disclosure has a mounting cylinder with at least one bearing and the bearing is fixedly coupled to the mounting cylinder via at least one bearing tube. Mounted to a top of the mounting cylinder is an outer tube hand wheel and within the outer tube hand wheel is an inner rod hand wheel. Also, the system has an outer tube that is fixedly coupled to the outer tube hand wheel of the mounting cylinder such that when the outer tube hand wheel rotates, the outer tube rotates. Additionally, the system has an inner tube moveable coupled to the inside of the outer tube and fixedly coupled to the inner hand wheel such that when the inner hand wheel rotates the inner tube rotates. Furthermore, the system has a movement head disposed at a bottom of the outer tube and the inner tube, the inner tube is moveably coupled to a drive gear, which is moveably coupled to a lateral gear such than when the inner rod rotates, the drive gear rotates thereby rotating the lateral gear, the lateral gear is fixed coupled to a shaft on which is mounted a device, so that when the inner rod is rotated via the inner rod hand wheel, the device moves in an up and down fashion, the outer rod is fixedly coupled to the movement head so that when the outer hand wheel is rotated, the device moves in a circular fashion 360°.

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