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INSERTION PLATE [5 records]

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Record 1 2017-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
  • Packaging in Metal
DEF

A mechanism employing, for example, a belt, grippers or push-fingers/plate, to move documents from the document feed station to the insertion table.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
  • Emballages en métal
DEF

Mécanisme faisant appel, par exemple, à une courroie, à des griffes ou à des taquets mobiles, pour transporter les documents du poste d'alimentation à la table de mise sous pli.

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mechanical Components
  • Security Devices
  • Radiological Physics (Theory and Application)
CONT

Flux Thimble Guide Tubes. Flux thimbles are complements of the reactor in-core neutron monitoring or flux-mapping system. They are inserted into the reactor pressure vessel through the bottom... A thimble guide tube is divided into two parts. The upper part is located inside the fuel assembly, while the lower insertion is located between the reactor vessel bottom and the lower core plate.

CONT

Flux thimbles are retracted during refueling and maintenance operations. Guide tubes provide housing and support to these thimbles along most of their lengths.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Composants mécaniques
  • Dispositifs de sécurité
  • Physique radiologique et applications
CONT

Tubes doigt de gant. Ce sont des tubes réalisés en acier inoxydable étirés à froid, sans soudure, livrés à l'état écroui [...] Ils sont insérés à travers la buselure d'étanchéité dans les tubes de guidage; ils subissent donc un cintrage équivalent à celui des tubes de guidage avant de pénétrer dans la cuve (rayon de courbure égal à 2,50 m). Ils sont terminés à leur extrémité supérieure par une ogive soudée et à leur extrémité inférieure, par une pièce en forme de collerette servant de liaison avec la buselure d'étanchéité.

OBS

Le tube doigt de gant constitue avec la buselure d'étanchéité, la frontière du circuit primaire.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
CONT

The Get Away Special(GAS) Program was initiated by NASA in the mid-seventies to provide a diverse user community with extremely low cost access to space. Since 1982, 157 GAS payloads have flown aboard the STS. In 1998 alone, 16 GAS payloads flew on 5 different STS missions. The GAS carrier consists of a canister(5 ft3) which can accommodate customer equipment in a volume 19. 75 inches in diameter and 28. 25 inches high. The customer equipment can weigh up to 200 lbs. and attaches to the canister top plate. A smaller(2. 5 ft3) canister is also available for 60 and 100 lb. payloads. Electrical connection is via customer supplied cables to the GAS electrical interface on the canister bottom plate. Bumpers on the customer equipment provide lateral support. Provisions are made for insertion of purge gas into the canister and for venting a customer battery box.

OBS

get away special payload; GAS payload : terms officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
DEF

Petites charges utiles placées dans la soute de la navette. Elles sont autonomes, automatisées, dotées de leur propre bloc d'alimentation ainsi que de leur propre unité de commande et d'acquisition de données.

OBS

charge utile «Get Away Special»; charge utile GAS : termes uniformisés par le Groupe d'uniformisation de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale.

Spanish

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Record 4 1983-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postal Equipment and Supplies
OBS

An opening in a box, door or wall through which letter mail may be dropped by a letter carrier.

OBS

This term is also used by the public in referring to a mail receiver.

OBS

for "letterbox plate" : A plate with an opening to permit insertion of mail and attached to the door.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel et fournitures (Postes)
OBS

Ouverture dans une boîte, une porte ou un mur par laquelle le facteur peut laisser tomber les envois de la poste aux lettres;

OBS

(...) aussi utilisé par le grand public pour désigner une boîte aux lettres.

Spanish

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Record 5 1977-06-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[An insertion plate is a] narrow marginal extension of the articulamentum layer in the head and tail valves [of a Polyplacophora], and at the sides of the intermediate valves which project into the girdle(...). This structure is absent or nearly obsolete in lower groups of chitons.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

L'articulamentum [chez un Chiton] se prolonge en avant, formant une "lame d'insertion", dont le bord est simple ou divisé.

Spanish

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