Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flexible lance drive positioner apparatus
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Application No.: US16791396Application Date: 2020-02-14
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Publication No.: US11248860B2Publication Date: 2022-02-15
- Inventor: Joseph A. Schneider , Jeffery R. Barnes , John L. Krauser
- Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CO Durango
- Assignee: STONEAGE, INC.
- Current Assignee: STONEAGE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Durango
- Agency: Greenberg Traurig, LLP
- Main IPC: F28G15/02
- IPC: F28G15/02 ; F28G9/00 ; F28G15/04

Abstract:
An apparatus for positioning a flexible lance drive device in registry with an opening into a heat exchanger tube sheet includes a flat plate bracket adapted to be bolted parallel to a flange of the heat exchanger. The bracket carries a stub tube fastened to and extending normal to the flat bracket. A rotary drive is removably fastened to the stub tube and has a rotary disc rotatable in a plane parallel to the tube sheet. A slotted box rail has a proximal end clamped to the rotary disc and a linear drive assembly is removably fastened to the slotted box rail. A guide tube collet block assembly clamped to the linear drive assembly removably supports a flexible lance drive and guide tube to guide a flexible lance between the lance drive and a selected one of a plurality of tubes penetrating through the heat exchanger tube sheet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200263941A1 FLEXIBLE LANCE DRIVE POSITIONER APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-08-20
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