Proximity probe mounting device
OwnerKen E. Singleton, Barry T. Ceaseinventors
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Abstract
A proximity probe device for detecting rotating shaft deviation, wherein a rigid body has a pair of flat magnets for forcibly seating against a substantially flat surface area of a shaft bearing housing of magnetizable material, a threaded bore through the body for holding a proximity probe having a mating threaded casing, an angle indicator for assisting in placing the body on the surface area and a pair of spaced shoulders on a proximate edge surface of the body, wherein a sight plane for each of the shoulders is substantially tangential to the surface of a shaft in the shaft bearing housing to aid in aiming the probe at a desired location on the shaft surface.
Claims17
A device for mounting a proximity probe in operating position on a machine having a rotatable shaft and wherein the probe is used for detecting rotating shaft deviation, said device comprising a rigid body having a flat magnetic rear face portion adapted to magnetically, forcibly seat against a substantially flat surface area of a shaft bearing housing of magnetizable material, structural means on said body for holding the proximity probe, an adjustment mechanism on said structural means for spacing said probe at a desired distance from a shaft surface, and positioning means on said device for aiming the probe at a desired location on the shaft surface.
The combination of (1) a shaft rotatably mounted in a bearing housing of magnetizable material wherein a front face portion of said housing has a substantially flat surface area surrounding said shaft, and (2) a proximity probe device for detecting rotating shaft deviation, wherein said device has a rigid body having a flat magnetic rear face portion magnetically, forcibly seating against said substantially flat surface area of said bearing housing, structural means on said body holding a proximity probe, an adjustment mechanism on said structural means for spacing said probe at a desired distance from a shaft surface, and angular positioning means on said device aiming the probe at a desired location on the shaft surface.
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