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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. 25, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernard L Silverblatt, Mt. Lebanon, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376409 ; 376261 ; 376434 ;
Abstract
A plumb nozzle for a nuclear fuel assembly having asymmetric loading of the fuel mass comprising a raised protuberance on the handling tool gripper finger engaging surface of the nozzle to compensate for skewing caused by the asymmetric fuel loading. The protuberance is positioned to be engaged by a gripper finger during handling, loading, or unloading of the fuel assemblies and extends downwardly a predetermined distance with respect to the other gripper finger engaging surfaces so that the fuel assembly hangs plumb.