Storage reel assembly
AssigneeTechnical Operations, Incorporated
InventorsGeorge W. Parsons, Jr., Riccardo A. Drainoni
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Abstract
A storage reel for flexible-cable remote manipulating means, which provides a form on which to store a flexible cable and its guide tube on the outside of the form, and which includes permanently fixed inside the form a relatively lighter weight storage tube, of Teflon or the like, for storing a supply of the flexible cable. The storage reel is disclosed in a system for isotope radiography.
Claims10
In radiographic apparatus for manipulating a quantity of radioactive material between a stored position and a use position including a capsule of said radioactive material, a storage unit with a passage through it for storing the capsule in the passage and shielding the surrounding environment from the stored radioactive material, manipulating means for location remote from said storage unit, first flexible conduit means connectible to said storage unit between one end of said passage and the manipulating means, and flexible elongated drive means movable within said conduit means and said passage for moving said capsule between a stored position and a use position under control of said manipulating means, the improvement comprising:
- reel means mounting said manipulating means and providing a form for coiling said conduit means externally around said reel means, and second conduit means permanently coiled on said reel means for housing a supply of said drive means.
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