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US 6,318,195 B1Granted
Method of installing a light probe
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.
Claims3
A method of installing a light probe in a bore formed in a casing wall comprising:
- a) attaching an elongated tube having a crimped forwardmost end to a fitting body;
- b) attaching the fitting body within the bore in the casing wall;
- c) attaching a separable cap portion of the fitting body onto the light probe;
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- d) inserting the light probe through the fitting body with a remote end of the light probe seated on the crimped forwardmost end of said tube and with said crimped forwardmost end of said tube flush with an inner surface of the casing wall.
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