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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2017
O.i. Corporation, College Station, TX (US);
Nathan C. Rawls, Somerville, TX (US);
Noel C. Bauman, College Station, TX (US);
Richard K. Simon, College Station, TX (US);
O.I. CORPORATION, College Station, TX (US);
Abstract
A furnace system has a furnace-tube-cap (FTC) and a slider. The FTC has a first-cap-portion coupled to a furnace tube of a furnace, a second-cap-portion with a bearing-assembly-arrangement (BAA), and an inner-tube-cap-channel (ITCC) passing from the first-to-second cap portion with an ITCC sealing arrangement extending outside the ITCC. The slider slides in the BAA to/from inject-and-rinse positions, and has a first-ramp (FR), a first-raised-surface (FRS), an intermediate-lower-surface (ILS), a second-ramp (SR), and a second-raised-surface (SRS). When the slider moves to the inject-or-rinse positions, the BAA forces a slider-part to push against an inner-channel-sealing-arrangement (ICSA) as the BAA goes from the FR-to-FRS, or the SR-to-SRS. When the slider is in the inject-or-rinse position, a first-slider-part seals the ITCC sealing arrangement. When the slider transitions between the inject-and-rinse positions and the BAA rides along the ILS, the BAA allows the slider-part to float above the ICSA arrangement.