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MOVABLE CARRIAGE [4 records]

Record 1 2016-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applications of Automation
  • Cutting and Trimming (Machine-Tooling)
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
CONT

Power Cutting, Inc., under contract to GPU Nuclear, has engineered, fabricated, and tested an automated cutting equipment system(ACES) to conduct the cutting of the LCSA [lower core support assembly]. The cutting system will include plasma arc cutting, rotary grinding, and abrasive water jetting. It will be a system consisting of a support frame, movable carriage, and trolley for horizontal x, y direction control, and a movable vertical z axis robotic telescoping arm supported on the trolley/carriage arrangement. The support frame, carriage, trolley, and robotic arm will be set on and above the LCSA, submerged in [approximately] 35 ft of reactor coolant. It will be remotely operated and controlled.

OBS

automated cutting equipment system; ACES: term and abbreviation extracted from the “Glossaire de l’énergie nucléaire” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Automatisation et applications
  • Découpage et taillage (Usinage)
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
OBS

équipement automatisé de découpage : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’énergie nucléaire» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wheels and Tires (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
CONT

Apparatus for debeading a scrap tire. An apparatus for removing the bead wires from a scrap tire having a pair of overlapping and counterrotating shearing members and a movable carriage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Roues et pneus (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
CONT

Rotary calculators are mainly used for complex, high-speed multiplication and division problems [and] have a full keyboard, a movable carriage, and a number of service bars and keys.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
OBS

Mobile, très souvent visible sur les machines à 4 opérations, il permet de faire varier la place des différents enregistrements à effectuer.

OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Chutes, Spouts and Conveyors
CONT

A system of pipes runs from floor to floor, and by means of the band conveyor with its movable throw-off carriage grain can be shot to any floor.

CONT

Through the unloading line to the technological places: wagon elevator, pusher, tippler, set of belt conveyor flights, throw-off carriage, loading bridge, dumping conveyor ...

Key term(s)
  • throw off carriage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage industriel
  • Convoyeurs et goulottes (Manutention)
OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

OBS

Doc. A 934. Techniques de l'ingénieur A-5. Séparation, manutention mécaniques.

Spanish

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