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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1998
Kasanbhai C Patel, Windsor Locks, CT (US);
Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (US);
Abstract
A buckstay system of an associated furnace having a combustion cavity with a front waterwall, a rear waterwall, and opposed left and right side waterwalls joining the front and rear waterwalls and where the waterwalls are arranged in a generally square pattern about the cavity. The cavity has four corners and each buckstay an attachment module welded to each end, each attachment module includes first and second planar plates. The first and second planar plates are disposed in side abutting relationship to the web of the buckstay and extend beyond the end of the buckstay, each of the first and second plates have coaxial pivot holes disposed in a part thereof that extends beyond the end of the buckstay. The planar plates in the attachment module may be rectangular. Or have a notch or recess for clearance. A spacer may be disposed intermediate the planar plates in the attachment module and the spacer may have a thickness substantially equal to the thickness of the web of the buckstay for which the attachment module is intended.