Abstract: A modular, portable, drive-through tire tread wear and brake testing system including a tire tread wear analyzer and flat plate brake tester housed in an intermodal cargo shipping container. Doors open on opposing sides of the container to permit a vehicle to be driven through it and, as the vehicle passes over the floor of the modular container and the flat plate brake tester, its tires are scanned by a flush-mounted tire tread depth scanner. The scanned output, a digitized tread profile, is analyzed for tread depth, tire wear patterns from chronic under- or over-inflation, and wheel misalignment. Cameras trained on the vehicle entering the container that feed video to monitors visible to the driver plus structural components on the floor of the container help to guide the vehicle into position over the scanner. The tire and brake report is generated immediately and transmitted to the appropriate recipient.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (20) for shutting off an inner orifice of a bundle wrapper of a steam generator comprising a movable shaft (21) comprising a pair of lower half-flanges (25, 26), a pair of upper half-flanges (27, 28) which can be rotated by the said shaft (21) substantially through 180° between a low position facing the lower half-flanges (25, 26), for introduction into the orifices of the casing and the wrapper of the steam generator, and a high position opposite the said lower half-flanges (25, 26), and means (22) for clamping the lower half-flanges (25, 26) and the upper half-flanges (27, 28) on the peripheries arranged on either side of the inner orifice, in order to shut off this inner orifice. The invention also relates to a shutting-off method and to a tooling for installing and removing the shut-off device.