Device for closing a drive casing pipe

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9922735
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14427245

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The invention relates to a device for closing a pipe opening, opening upwards, of a drive casing pipe accommodating the control rod drive of a boiling water reactor, said device comprising a closure plug with a plug housing, opening downwards, a sealing element guided axially so as to be movable within the plug housing, which element has a sealing face providing a sealing contact with an annular counter face defining the pipe opening, a locking element provided to fix the plug housing on the drive casing pipe, and a spring, which is supported by the upper end thereof on the plug housing and by the lower end thereof on the sealing element and holds said element in a lower end position.

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FRAMATOME GMBH91052 ERLANGEN

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Brockmöller-Meiners, Arne Rickling, DE 2 0
Huprich, Paul Neunkirchen am Brand, DE 1 0
Müller, Erhard Pretzfeldt, DE 18 110

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