Device for isotope capsule unloading and transport at nuclear reactors

A device for isotope capsule transport and unloading at nuclear reactors is described. The device comprises a drive, truck with a cylindrical container supported as a cantilever and a guiding rail. To simplify the device, the bottom of the container is made mobile and a stop corresponding to the unloading position of the truck is fixed on the rail to displace container bottom. The pipeline for transporting capsules onto the delivery table is installed under the truck coaxially with the container. The device operates in the following way: the mechanism for capsule loading into the container in the lower position of the truck places a capsule into the cylindrical container, the inlet ope--ning of the container being shut off by the mobile bottom. Then the rope moves the truck up in the direction of the rail. In the upper position the container bottom comes on the stop, the bottom is displaced, the opening is clear and the capsule falls into the pipeline under its own weight and is transported along the pipeline to the delivery table