Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Heat exchanger or boiler making
Patent
1988-12-08
1991-07-09
Rosenbaum, Mark
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Heat exchanger or boiler making
29252, 29723, 29726, 29906, 29DIG46, 2989004, B23P 600
Patent
active
050293885
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method are provided for remotely inserting and feeding a sleeve within a selected tube to be serviced mounted in a tubesheet of a nuclear steam generator, so as to relieve reverse forces generated during the insertion and feeding of the sleeve and to reduce operator interaction. The device includes a tool having a frame, at least one gripper unit having gripping fingers which extend from a top plate of the tool for detachably suspending the frame from a tube in close proximity to the selected tube. The gripper unit also includes a hydraulically actuated cylinder for retracting the gripping fingers toward the top plate of the tool to forcibly position the tool against the underside of the tubesheet. An advancing assembly supported by the frame is also provided for remotely inserting and feeding the sleeve into the selected tube. This advancing assembly is vibrated by way of a vibrator mounted thereon. Therefore, by forcibly positioning the tool against the underside of the tubesheet and vibrating the advancing assembly during the feeding of the sleeve, reverse forces exerted on the tool and the tubesheet are relieved to allow the sleeve to be smoothly fed into the selected tube, which accelerates the sleeving operation and minimizes the exposure of the equipment operator to potentially harmful radiation.
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Chin Frances
Rosenbaum Mark
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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