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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1990
Andrew J Jarabak, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Wallace H Sunderman, McCandless Township, Allegheny County, PA (US);
Edward G Mendola, Fallowfield Township, Washington County, PA (US);
Ralph W Kalkbrenner, Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, PA (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
An automated facility for the large-scale production of superconducting magnets for use in a particle accelerator. Components of the automated facility include: a superconducting coil winding machine; a coil form and cure press apparatus; a coil collaring press; collar pack assembly apparatus; yoke half stacking apparatus; a cold mass assembly station; and a final assembly station. The facility can produce, on an economical manufacturing basis, magnets made of superconducting material for use in the ring of the particle accelerator. Each of the components is under the control of a programmable controller for operation having repeatable accuracy. All of the elements which are combined to form the superconducting magnet are thus manufactured with the dimensional precision required to produce a known, uniform magnetic field within the accelerator.