Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Ralph W Klug

Bruce W Bevilacqua

John A Rylatt

Charles E Toler, Sr

Dennis J Dinucci

David C Carlsen

A device for searching and retrieving objects on a tube sheet of a steam generator which includes a sled having a probe and a gripper thereon and connected to a flexible tube having control means therein for operating the probe and the gripper whereby the sled and flexible tube may be inserted through a handhole of the generator to an operating position on the tube sheet. Both the probe and the gripper may be angularly rotated to manipulate them between the tubes of the steam generator.

Search and retrieval device

A rotopeening apparatus comprising a plurality of peening spindles, a rotary and orbital drive assembly coupled to the spindles, and an oscillatory drive means for reciprocating the spindles within the interior of an array of tubes is disclosed herein. Each peening spindle includes a rotatable mandrel connected to at least one peening flapper, as well as means for orbiting the mandrel peening flapper around the longitudinal axis of the tube. The rotary and orbital drive assembly includes an orbital driveshaft and a rotary driveshaft which are concentrically disposed with respect to one another and are detachably connectable to the rotatable and orbital mandrel of the peening spindle. Finally, the oscillatory drive assembly includes a frame having a translatable saddle plate for carrying and moving the rotary and orbital drive assembly within the frame, and four threaded rods journalled within the frame and coupled to a reversible motor which are screwed through nut assemblies fixed onto the corners of the saddle plate. As the reversible motor simultaneously rotates the threaded rods, the saddle plate translates and reciprocates the peening spindle detachably connected to the rotary and orbital drive assembly in 'riding nut' fashion. The apparatus is particularly useful in simultaneously rotopeening a plurality of heat exchange tubes mounted within the tubesheet of a nuclear steam generator.

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Baldwin Boro, PA, United States of America

Ralph W Klug