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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1979
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Theodore E Raymond, Swansea, SC (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250507 ; 176 87 ;
Abstract
A nuclear fuel assembly storage rack having a swivel base consisting of a plurality of plates with a hard ball centered and captured between the plates. The bottom base plate is fixed to the bottom of the storage rack and the top base plate has pins for locating the bottom nozzle of the fuel assembly. Since the top of the fuel assembly is clamped in the storage rack, the swivel base allows the fuel assembly to seek a position that minimizes torsional and bending stresses in the fuel assembly.