Jeffrey S Wilson
Nursing Home Administrators at Tansey Close Dr, Wilmington, NC

5816292, Oct 6, 1998

Apr 29, 1996

8/638785

Jeffrey A. Wilson - Wilmington NC
Gary S. Martin - Wilmington NC
Robert K. Williams - Carolina Beach NC

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F16L 5510

138 89

A tube and end plug assembly include a tube having an inner diameter and an outer diameter; an end plug having a tapered body portion with minimum and maximum diameters and a radial flange adjacent the minimum diameter. The tapered body portion is located within an end portion of the tube which is in substantially continuous engagement with the tapered body portion of the plug. A related process of joining an end plug to a hollow tube having a cylindrical end portion, with inside and outside diameters, and wherein the end plug has a body portion with minimum and maximum diameters connected by a tapered surface and a radial flange adjacent the minimum diameter includes the steps of: a) inserting the end plug into the cylindrical end portion of the tube such that the radial flange engages an edge of the cylindrical end portion of the tube; b) deforming the cylindrical end portion of the tube into conformance with the tapered body portion of the end plug; and c) welding the end plug to the tube circumferentially about a joint between the radial flange and the edge.

5875224, Feb 23, 1999

Sep 2, 1997

8/921600

David G. Smith - Leland NC
Harold B. King - Wrightsville Beach NC
Jeffrey A. Wilson - Wilmington NC
Andrew A. Lingenfelter - Wilmington NC
Michelle Wagner - Wilmington NC

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

C21C 332, C21C 334

376439

A swirler is releasably attached to a spacer and lies in the opening through the spacer lying above a part-length fuel rod in a nuclear fuel bundle. Adjacent ferrules have upstanding tabs with loops forming part of connecting elements for releasably securing the swirler to the spacer. The spacer is mounted on a mounting ring having radially outwardly directed elements terminating in barbed ends for insertion through the loops in response to rotation of the swirler mounting ring relative to the tabs. The barbed ends can be squeezed together to release the swirler from its attachment with the spacer.

5592520, Jan 7, 1997

Aug 30, 1995

8/520880

Kevin L. Ledford - Wilmington NC
Jeffrey A. Wilson - Wilmington NC

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

G21C 710

376233

A window in the control rod for a nuclear reactor has flanges along its opposite sides. A latch handle has slots along its opposite sides. The latch handle is sized and configured such that in a first angular orientation, the latch handle may be received within the plane and peripheral confines of the window and, upon rotation of the latch handle through 90. degree. into a second orientation, engages the slotted sides of the latch handle with the flanges of the window to capture the latch handle within the window while simultaneously enabling linear vertical movement of the latch handle relative to the window. The latch handle is then attached to a shaft for operating a coupling mechanism between the control rod and the control rod drive.