An airlock for use in transferring waste objects from a positively pressurized enclosure aboard an operative space vehicle, to a waste receiver attached to the vehicle and maintained at the negative pressure of a celestial space environment. The airlock is characterized by a shell having an internal chamber and hermetically sealed within an opening formed in a bulkhead of the enclosure. The shell is provided with an insertion hatch adjacent to the enclosure, and an ejection hatch adjacent the waste receiver, each of the hatches being hermetically sealed by a hatch cover supported for deployment to a hatch-opening disposition through a manipulation of a hatch-deploying mechanism. A three-way selector valve is coupled with the deploying mechanism and ported to an internal chamber of the shell, the enclosure, and the environment and is provided for alternately coupling the chamber with the enclosure and the receiver, in direct communication, in response to a manipulation of the mechanism whereby a sequence is imposed on the operation of the airlock.


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    Titel :

    Airlock


    Beteiligte:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    30.04.1974


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Airlock

    H. R. Linderfelt | NTIS | 1972


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    H. R. Linderfelt | NTIS | 1974


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