Klockner-werke Ag

Kloeckner-werke Ag

Kurt Togel

Hans Warnke

Hans Lachner

Siegfried Heiermann

Jorg Richter

Peter Schungel

Horst Westerfeld

A fluid-operated device for simultaneously pretensioning a plurality of bolts connecting a first body to a second body in which the bolts are screwed with threaded end portions thereof into corresponding threaded bores in the second body and project with clearance through bores in the first body and with opposite threaded end portions thereof beyond the first body. The device comprises a carrier member arranged on the side of the first body opposite the second body and provided with a plurality of bores through which the bolts extend with clearance, a first nut screwed on the projecting other end portion of each bolt, at least one fluid-operated piston arranged on said carrier member movable along an axis parallel to those of the bolts and engaging with an end thereof the first body so as to simultaneously tension, when operated all of the screw bolts, and a second nut on an intermediate threaded portion of each bolt turnable into engagement with the first body after the bolts have been tensioned so as to hold the bodies in tight engagement with each other by the tensioned bolts.

Tensioning device for simultaneously tensioning a plurality of bolts

An arrangement for threading connecting elements, particularly threading bolts equipped with nuts threaded thereon, into and out of tapped bores of a reactor vessel to attach a lid to, and detach the same from the same includes a carrier ring which is supported on the lid during the threading operations, and a bolt-rotating device which is supported on a double-rail track mounted on and extending over the entire circumference of the carrier ring with a spacing therefrom, for displacement in the circumferential direction of the track. A lifting cylinder-and-piston unit is mounted on the carrier ring and tensions the threaded bolt during a part of the threading operations, while the bolt rotating device so acts on the respective bolt during a different part of the threading operations that the bolt is subjected to an axial force which counterbalances the weight of the bolt so that the same can be rotated into or out of the tapped bore with relative ease due to the fact that the frictional forces otherwise attributable to the weight of the bolt are eliminated or at least considerably reduced. The bolt-rotating device includes two coaxial sleeves received one within the other and each having an engaging portion having an aperture of the same shape as an actuating portion of the respective bolt which can thus be received in such apertures and engaged by the coaxial sleeves upon rotation of one of the sleeves relative to the other.

Arrangement for threading bolts into and out of tapped bores of reactor

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Kurt Togel