Japanese Patent JPH0448693

B2

The invention relates to a system for loading nuclear-fuel pellets from a pellet press into a sintering boat. The system comprises a drum (22) including at least one channel for holding a row of pellets; means (28) for rotating the drum so as to move the or each channel successively to a pellet-receiving position, a pellet-discharging position, and again to the pellet-receiving position; pellet transferring means (14, 32, 34) for receiving the pellets (10) from the press (12) and inserting them into the channel disposed in the pellet-receiving position; pellet-row transferring means (44 or 46) for transferring the row of pellets from the channel in the pellet-discharging position into a sintering boat (18 or 20); and means (47 or 48, 50, 51) for changing the relative position between the pellet-row transferring means and the sintering boat after each pellet-row transfer to assure stacking of successive pellet rows in a predetermined order. A controller, preferably comprising a microprocessor, controls and coordinates the operation of the various system components.

SEODOA YUUJIN REIMONDO
TOOMASU BOON HAGINZU
JOOJI AANESUTO BAININGU

JP20071484A

August 07, 1992

September 27, 1984

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WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP

G21C21/02; B65G47/84; B65G57/03; F27D3/00; G21C21/00; F27D5/00; F27D19/00

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