Testing of interiors of pressure vessels
CA 1066775 A · Owner: Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation · Inventors: Bromwich, Robert A.C.
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Described herein is apparatus for use in testing a shell from its interior in the region of a bore through that shell. The apparatus includes a rotatable stem which is inserted into the bore and an arm carried on the inner end of this stem. This arm includes guide means by which a testing probe is supported and constrained to move between extreme positions where the probe is normal to the interior surface of the shell and where the probe is within the bore and normal to the surface of the bore; the guide means are therefore shaped to correspond to the profile of the surface of the region under test. In use the stem and arm are rotated to orbit the testing probe around the axis of the bore …
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- Granted November 20, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 20, 1996.
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