RALPH WILLIAM KUGLER
Engineers in Pittsburgh, PA

6568772, May 27, 2003

Feb 26, 2001

09/792984

Kenneth S. Gerkey - Pittsburgh PA 15228
Ralph W. Kugler - Pittsburgh PA 15234

A47B 9700

312238, 312307

Substantially planar bearings are used for the support and rotation of a rotatable shelf in the shape of a Reuleaux triangle, which rotates eccentrically. The bearings may be separate from the rotation guidance system or may be an integral part of it.

4897858, Jan 30, 1990

Feb 15, 1989

7/310558

Stuart L. Rieben - Pittsburgh PA
Ralph W. Kugler - Pittsburgh PA
Joseph J. Scherpenberg - Columbia SC
Dale T. Wiersema - Florence SC

Westinghouse Electric Corp. - Pittsburgh PA

G21C 1900, G21C 2100

376261

A pellet collating system includes a tray positioning station located adjacent a pellet collating line with a tray transfer robot located therebetween. The tray positioning station has mobile carts lodged thereat, some supporting pellet supply trays and others supporting pellet storage trays. Pellets on one supply tray and later placed on one storage tray are of the same enrichment. Pellet enrichments on some trays are different from on others. The collating line includes pellet input, work and output stations arranged in tandem. The robot is operable to transfer supply and storage trays one at a time to and from the positioning station and the respective input and output stations. An input sweep head is operable for sweeping pellets onto the work station from a supply tray on the input station. A gripping and measuring head is operable for measuring a desired length of pellets on the work station and then separating the measured desired length of pellets from the remaining pellets, if any.

4842808, Jun 27, 1989

Mar 25, 1988

7/172827

Stuart L. Rieben - Pittsburgh PA
Ralph W. Kugler - Pittsburgh PA
Joseph J. Scherpenberg - Columbia SC
Dale T. Wiersema - Florence SC
James L. Fogg - Columbia SC

Westinghouse Electric Corp. - Pittsburgh PA

G21C 1900, G21C 2100, B65B 104

376261

A pellet collating system includes a tray positioning station located adjacent a pellet collating line with a tray transfer robot located therebetween. The tray positioning station has mobile carts lodged thereat, some supporting pellet supply trays and others supporting pellet storage trays. Pellets on one supply tray and later placed on one storage tray are of the same enrichment. Pellet enrichments on some trays are different from on others. The collating line includes pellet input, work and output stations arranged in tandem. The robot is operable to transfer supply and storage trays one at a time to and from the positioning station and the respective input and output stations. An input sweep head is operable for sweeping pellets onto the work station from a supply tray on the input station. A gripping and measuring head is operable for measuring a desired length of pellets on the work station and then separating the measured desired length of pellets from the remaining pellets, if any.

4070240, Jan 24, 1978

Feb 2, 1977

5/765032

Ralph W. Kugler - Mount Lebanon PA
Kenneth S. Gerkey - Mount Lebanon PA
William H. Kasner - Penn Hills PA

Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Pittsburgh PA

G21C 302

176 66

An automated system for transporting nuclear fuel elements between fuel element assembly stations without contaminating the area outside the sealed assembly stations. The system comprises a plurality of assembly stations connected together by an elongated horizontal sealing mechanism and an automatic transport mechanism for transporting a nuclear fuel element in a horizontal attitude between the assembly stations while the open end of the fuel element extends through the sealing mechanism into the assembly station enclosure. The sealing mechanism allows the fuel element to be advanced by the transport mechanism while limiting the escape of radioactive particles from within the assembly station enclosure.