Package making – With cover-adjunct application or formation
Patent
1974-01-03
1976-06-29
McGhee, Travis S.
Package making
With cover-adjunct application or formation
53244, 198220CA, 198220BA, B65b 6300
Patent
active
039656489
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for loading fuel pellets into fuel rods for a nuclear reactor including a base supporting a table having grooves therein for holding a multiplicity of pellets. Multiple fuel rods are placed in alignment with grooves in the pellet table and a guide member channels pellets from the table into the corresponding fuel rods. To effect movement of pellets inside the fuel rods without jamming, a number of electromechanical devices mounted on the base have arms connected to the lower surface of the fuel rod table which cyclically imparts a reciprocating arc motion to the table for moving the fuel pellets longitudinally of and inside the fuel rods. These electromechanical devices include a solenoid having a plunger therein connected to a leaf-type spring, the arrangement being such that upon energization of the solenoid coil, the leaf spring moves the fuel rod table rearwardly and downwardly, and upon deenergization of the coil, the spring imparts an upward-forward movement to the table which results in physical displacement of fuel pellets in the fuel rods clamped to the table surface.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3212226 (1965-10-01), Murray et al.
patent: 3668939 (1972-06-01), Schrader
Campbell J. R.
McGhee Travis S.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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