Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Puller or pusher means – contained force multiplying operator
Patent
1979-04-09
1981-11-03
Watson, Robert C.
Metal working
Means to assemble or disassemble
Puller or pusher means, contained force multiplying operator
29259, 29263, B23P 1904
Patent
active
042977762
ABSTRACT:
A fuel rod puller in the form of a collet for pulling fuel rods from a storage area into grids of a nuclear reactor fuel assembly. The rod puller moves longitudinally through the grids to a storage area where projections on the end of leaf springs grasp onto an end plug in a fuel rod. Drive apparatus then pulls the rod puller and connected fuel rod from the storage area into the fuel assembly grids. The rod puller includes an outer tube having leaf springs on one end thereof in one modification, mounted within the outer tube is a movable plunger which acts to urge the leaf springs outwardly to a position to permit passing or with the end of a end plug. Upon withdrawal of the plunger, the leaf springs move into a groove formed in the end of a fuel rod end plug, and the fuel rod subsequently is pulled into the fuel assembly grids. In another modification, the leaf springs on the outer rod are biased in an outward direction and a longitudinally movable tube on the outer rod is moved in a direction to contract the leaf springs into a position where the projections thereof engage the groove formed in a fuel rod end plug.
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Campbell J. R.
Dermer Z. L.
Watson Robert C.
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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