Material or article handling – Device for emptying portable receptacle – With gate or closure-type discharge control means
Patent
1989-02-21
1990-05-22
Spar, Robert J.
Material or article handling
Device for emptying portable receptacle
With gate or closure-type discharge control means
414146, 414404, 414421, 414786, B65B 2122, B65G 6523
Patent
active
049273132
ABSTRACT:
A nuclear fuel pellet unloading apparatus includes a transfer housing pivotally movable between an upright position remote from a pellet deposit site and an inverted position adjacent to the deposit site, and convertable between opened and closed conditions. In its upright position and closed condition, the housing receives a sintering boat loaded with nuclear fuel pellets and holds the boat while retaining the pellets within the boat as the boat is moved from upright to inverted orientations upon pivoting of the housing from its upright to inverted position. An actuator is operated for causing pivoting of the housing from its upright to inverted position and back to its upright position. A latch member latches the housing in its closed condition when the housing is disposed in its upright position and as the housing is pivoted from its upright position toward its inverted position. A release member actuates the latch member as the housing reaches its inverted position to unlatch the housing and render it capable thereafter of converting from closed to opened condition upon reverse pivoting of the housing from the inverted position back toward the upright position by operating the actuator, thereby allowing dispensing of pellets from the opened housing and open top of the boat to the pellets deposit site.
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Huggins Thomas B.
Klapper Kenneth K.
Widener Wade H.
Spar Robert J.
VandenBosche John
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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