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Automated insertion of a contact rod into a metallurgical probe

US9366553B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH · AT

Inventors

Helmut Ebner · Nuremberg, DE
Simon Pfeil · Linz, AT
Roger Scheidegger · Ternitz, AT

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 22, 2011
Grant date	Jun 14, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 28, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49826
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A metallurgical probe has a probe longitudinal axis and an open end face. The probe is fitted within a bearing point in such a manner that the open end face faces a predetermined insertion direction. The bearing point has probe centering elements to hold the probe in a predetermined probe position as seen transversely with respect to the probe longitudinal axis. A device inserts an end of the contact rod into a contact rod centering device, in an insertion direction running transversely with respect to the probe longitudinal axis, until the end of the contact rod is positioned, on account of the insertion into the contact rod centering device, in a predetermined contact rod position, in which the end of the contact rod is opposite the open end face. The contact rod is then moved in a direction of the probe longitudinal axis and is inserted into the probe.

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