Brown Boveri Reaktor Gmbh

Fritz Ziegelmeyer

Hans Haller

A clamping element for fixation in a bore of a structural element and for carrying a load includes a clamping sleeve formed of a plurality of partial shells and having a central axis, a clamping bolt vertically movable in the clamping sleeve, the partial shells and the clamping bolt having mutually cooperating spreading surfaces converging and tapering toward the load, the clamping bolt permanently subjecting the partial shells to an automatically acting clamping force, the clamping bolt being axially movable to counteract and relieve the clamping force, the partial shells and the clamping bolt having surfaces adjacent the spreading surfaces converging obliquely toward the central axis and forcing the partial shells into a disengaged position.

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Bad Schonborn, Germany

Fritz Ziegelmeyer