Battelle Memorial Institute

USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

William R Dick

Donald J Hackman

David A Easter

Kathryn E Alexander

Wayne R Tausig

Bruce Farber

Scott Barradas

David B Wyman

John R Myers

John J Reidy

Donald W Caudy

This invention pertains to a rotary disk tool which utilizes pressurized water as the working fluid. When an operator engages a trigger on a novel control handle and valve assembly, pressurized seawater enters the rotary disk tool through the control handle and valve assembly into a seawater powered vane motor. The shaft of the seawater powered vane motor, is coupled to a drive gear. The drive gear, in turn, is in operative engagement with a driven pinion coupled to an output shaft which drives an abrasive disk. Seawater exhausted from the motor into a gear and pinion housing provides lubrication for the drive gear, driven pinion, and the bearings used with the gear and pinion. The seawater is then exhausted from the housing as a fan spray directed onto the back of the abrasive disk so as to reduce drag of the disk in water and to flush away loose material from the work surface.

Seawater hydraulic rotary disk tool

A connector mate/demate tool provides remote coupling and decoupling of connector sections with a rotating locking ring on one section of the connector and where the other section is rigidly attached to some fixture. The tool mates the connector sections by first searching for a key-slot engagement of parts while exerting a small longitudinal force and then rotating the locking ring until the two sections are secured. Demating is accomplished by rotating the locking ring in the reverse direction and pulling the two connector sections apart.

Connector mate/demate tool

A fully automated tool for holding threaded fasteners during fastener insertion, removal, or transport is described. The device is capable of handling different sized fasteners and can be used with remote manipulator systems or in hand-held operations.

Fastener gripping mechanism for bolt running operations

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Columbus, OH, United States of America

William R Dick