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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1986
Jackson A Ransohoff, Bethesda, MD (US);
Edward A Wentz, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Walter C Snyder, Frederick, MD (US);
Neutron Products, Inc., Dickerson, MD (US);
Abstract
In a canister handling system, a canister dumper has pentagonally arranged rows of holders on a structure which is rotatable about a horizontal axis for indexing the rows of holders from a vertical position, where the canisters are loaded, through two steps to a canister content unloading station where the contents are gravity unloaded, and then through a canister unloading station where the canisters are dropped from the holders. The canisters include vertical ribs defining an enlarged outside diameter which interlocks with curved carrier walls to retain the canisters on carriers.