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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 1978
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1977
Helmut Bezold, Erlangen, DE;
Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft, Mulheim, (Ruhr), DE;
Abstract
Fuel element skeleton has a play-free form-locking connection between groups of structural parts thereof respectively formed of materials of varying thermal expansion, the connection having means secured to a first group of the structural parts and having respective contact surfaces on diametrically opposite sides of the first group of structural parts, the contact surfaces being disposed in a common plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the means, and the contact surfaces facing in mutually opposite axial directions of the first group of the structural parts, and means provided on a second group of the structural parts for defining respective abutment surfaces disposed in a common plane and mutually spaced from one another, the abutment surfaces facing in mutually opposite directions, the first and the second groups of the structural parts being disposed relative to one another in a position wherein the contact surfaces of the first group of the structural parts are in engagement with the respective abutment surfaces of the second group of the structural parts and wherein the common plane in which the contact surfaces are disposed is coincident with the common plane in which the abutment surfaces are disposed.