US 3,983,756 AGranted

Probe apparatus for a high pressure chamber

AssigneeDr. C. Otto & Comp. G.m.b.H.

InventorsWilhelm Danguillier, Helmut Poloczek

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Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus including a probe adapted for removal through an aperture in the side wall of a high pressure chamber. The probe is supported at one end of a rod that is coaxially received within a sleeve. A plate at the free end of the rod forms a sealed connection between the rod and the sleeve. The sleeve extends within a tube attached at one end to the high pressure chamber in an enclosing relation with the aperture therein. The tube is divided along its length and secured by flanges to a valve used to selectively block the flow of media from the high pressure chamber after the sleeve is withdrawn along the tube beyond the valve. Screw threads on the external surface of the sleeve mate with internal screw threads formed in a screw head that is supported by the end of the tube to displace the sleeve therealong. A passageway in the screw head communicates with a bore therein for discharging pressurized gas into the interior of the tube and thereby prevents the flow of medium from the high pressure chamber during axial movement of the sleeve until the valve is closed.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An apparatus for use in combination with a high pressure chamber having an aperture in the side wall thereof, said apparatus comprising:

probe means adapted for operation within said high pressure chamber, said probe means being removable from said chamber through the aperture in the side wall thereof,
a rod for supporting said probe means within said high pressure chamber,
an elongated sleeve having an axially-extending opening adapted to receive at least a portion of said rod, said elongated sleeve having external screw threads,
means connected to said rod and said elongated sleeve to form a gas pressure-tight closure therebetween,
a tube extending from the side wall of said high pressure chamber in a manner to form an external extension to said aperture, said tube being adapted to internally receive at least a portion of the length of said elongated sleeve in a generally coaxial extending relation,
a valve including means arranged within said tube to selectively block the flow of a media therein from said high pressure chamber after positioning of said elongated sleeve and said probe means along said tube and generally beyond said valve relative to said high pressure chamber,
a screw head supported by said tube at the end thereof extending from said high pressure chamber, said screw head having a bore including internal screw threads for mating engagement with the external screw threads of said elongated sleeve, and
means for conducting pressurized gas into the interior of said tube between said valve and said screw head.

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