Apparatus for testing the walls of vessels

US4385523A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Georg Gugel · Kalchreuth, DE
• Franz Huber · Tauberbischofsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 8, 1982
• Grant date: May 31, 1983
• Expiry date: Feb 8, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E30/30
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for testing vessel walls having projections with a multiplicity of guide tracks extending among the projections for guiding a slide carrying a testing device, and carriage means for transposing the slide onto the individual guide tracks, the carriage means being movable on a transport track connecting the ends of the guide tracks, including a thrust hose rigid in tension and compression and guidable by the guide tracks, respectively, a drive for the thrust hose mounted on the carriage, the thrust hose connecting the slide to the drive, and a jib carried by the carriage and operatively associated with the drive, the jib being of such dimension as to accommodate the slide and the testing device and being movable for adjusting to the guide tracks.