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US 6,182,520 B2Granted
Light probe installation
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsBryan Robert Church, Gary Francis Fitzsimmons, David Martin Gontz
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Abstract
A light probe assembly for mounting in a casing wall comprising a swage lock fitting sized to receive an outer tube; a light probe extending through the fitting and received within the outer tube; wherein the fitting is adapted for attachment to the casing wall, and wherein a remote end of the light probe is seated on an internal shoulder at a forwardmost end of the outer tube.
Claims8
A light probe mounting arrangement in a casing wall comprising:
- a swage lock fitting having upper and lower parts sized to receive an outer tube, said outer tube being permanently fixed to said lower part of said fitting, said outer tube having a forwardmost end located at a predetermined in-use position relative to an interior surface of the casing wall;
- a light probe extending through said fitting and received within said outer tube, said light probe having a remote end;
- wherein said fitting is adapted for attachment to the casing wall, and wherein said remote end of said light probe is seated on an internal shoulder at said forwardmost end of said outer tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.