Abstract: Water getter devices (10) are provided which comprise a powdered water getter material (18) in a container that is permeable to gases but capable of retaining solid particles and does not need welding.

Abstract: A powder of a composite material comprising a non-evaporable getter material with a palladium coating continuously sorbs hydrogen. Embodiments in which the coverage of the palladium coating over the particles of the NEG material is complete can sorb hydrogen without the need for an activation treatment. Other embodiments in which the palladium coverage is less than total but greater than about 10% can also sorb gaseous species other than hydrogen. Loose powders, pressed powders, and sintered powders of the composite material are incorporated into getter devices and into the evacuated spaces of double-walled pipes, dewars, and thermal bottles. Methods for preparing powders of these composite materials utilize evaporative, sputter, and CVD deposition techniques. Another method prepares powders of the composite material by a liquid phase impregnation process.

Abstract: A powder of a composite material comprising a non-evaporable getter material with a palladium coating continuously sorbs hydrogen. Embodiments in which the coverage of the palladium coating over the particles of the NEG material is complete can sorb hydrogen without the need for an activation treatment. Other embodiments in which the palladium coverage is less than total but greater than about 10% can also sorb gaseous species other than hydrogen. Loose powders, pressed powders, and sintered powders of the composite material are incorporated into getter devices and into the evacuated spaces of double-walled pipes, dewars, and thermal bottles. Methods for preparing powders of these composite materials utilize evaporative, sputter, and CVD deposition techniques. Another method prepares powders of the composite material by a liquid phase impregnation process.

Abstract: A powder of a composite material comprising a non-evaporable getter material with a palladium coating continuously sorbs hydrogen. Embodiments in which the coverage of the palladium coating over the particles of the NEG material is complete can sorb hydrogen without the need for an activation treatment. Other embodiments in which the palladium coverage is less than total but greater than about 10% can also sorb gaseous species other than hydrogen. Loose powders, pressed powders, and sintered powders of the composite material are incorporated into getter devices and into the evacuated spaces of double-walled pipes, dewars, and thermal bottles. Methods for preparing powders of these composite materials utilize evaporative, sputter, and CVD deposition techniques. Another method prepares powders of the composite material by a liquid phase impregnation process.

Abstract: Water getter devices (10) are described which consist of a powdered water. getter material (18) in a container that is permeable to gases but capable of retaining solid particles and does not need welding. A process for the production of said devices is also described.

Abstract: It is described a vacuum stabilizing device comprising a holder (100) impermeable to gases, in the form of a box open at its upper end, with edges folded and prolonged outwards to form a peripheral "wing" (104); a getter material (110) in the lower part of holder (100) inside a lower volume (II) defined by the bottom of the holder and by a lower septum (120), permeable to gases; a dryer material (130) is an upper volume (I) defined by said septum (120) and by a second upper septum (140) permeable to gases. A film (150) of a material impermeable to gases is hermetically fixed to the external part of wing (104), as to seal the whole device. A few methods for producing the device are also described.

Abstract: A thermally insulating jacket under reversible vacuum, having an inner wall, an outer wall and an hollow space between these walls. The hollow space is in fluid communication with an outer housing containing a reversible non-evaporable hydrogen getter loaded with hydrogen. The reversible hydrogen getter has a certain hydrogen equilibrium pressure. The hollow space contains a non-evaporable promoter getter having a certain hydrogen equilibrium pressure. These jackets can be employed with heat accumulators, batteries, cryogenic vessels, cryogenic pipes, catalytic silencers and solar panels.

Abstract: An evaporable getter device, for mounting in an electron tube, comprises a holder whose bottom wall is provided with means for preventing detachment of getter metal vapor releasing material which has been pressed into the holder and which has a multiplicity of means which retard the transmission of heat in a circumferential direction through the getter metal vapor releasing material. When the getter device is heated by currents induced from a radio-frequency field generated by a coil positioned outside the electron tube large amounts of getter metal are released in a short time without detachment of material from the holder. The heat retarding means are preferably four equally spaced radial grooved formed in the upper surface of the getter metal vapor releasing material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high purity gas delivery control assembly (100) having straight through gas flow. The bellows (118) which operates a gas flow interruption means (114) is isolated during gas flow and dead volumes are reduced to a minimum. This prevents the introduction of unwanted particles into the gas stream.

Abstract: An evaporable getter device for mounting in an electron tube is provided which comprises a pan-shaped container having a vertical side wall formed around the perimeter of a disc shaped bottom wall and a pulverized getter metal vapor releasing material pressed into the space formed by said side wall and said bottom wall.There is also provided a first heat transfer retarding means which delays the transfer of heat in a circumferential direction through the getter metal vapor releasing material. There is also provided a second heat transfer retarding means which delays the transfer of heat in a radial direction through the getter vapor releasing material. When the getter device is heated by currents induced from a radio frequency field created by a coil positioned outside the tube, opposite the getter device, high yields of getter metal are released in a short time without detachment of the getter material residues from the container.

Abstract: A method is described for the manufacture of a vacuum insulating structure intended mainly, but not exclusively, for use in such domestic appliances as refrigerators or freezers as well as for vehicle walls including aeroplanes and in buildings. A hollow plastic or metal panel is purged to atmospheric air by means of a getterable gas. Vacuum is produced by removing the purge gas and the vacuum is subsequently maintained by contacting the residual gas with a getter material. A vacuum insulating structure thus manufactured is also described.

Abstract: An improved getter assembly for mounting a getter device in an electron tube comprising a holder for supporting an evaporable getter metal vapor releasing material and a support tab member wherein the support tab member comprises a quadrilateral element one edge of which is attached to the getter assembly and the two edges adjacent to said one edge integrally supporting each respectively a first and second reinforcing element, so forming sidewall members in perpendicular relationship to the quadrilateral element and in abutting relationship with said holder.

Abstract: A getter assembly is provided with a tab and a support means adapted for contacting the wall of an electron tube, preferably a television picture tube, the support means is in the form of a metal strip, integral with the getter assembly, bent into a U-shape and terminating at each end with a rounded support foot.

Abstract: This invention relates to a supported getter device comprising a metallic support structure consisting of a three-dimensional network defining a multiplicity of inter-connecting free cells and a particulate getter material substantially filling at least some of said free cells. This invention also relates to a getter device comprising at least one attachment zone of a compressed three-dimensional metal network attached to at least one supported getter material zone comprising a three-dimensional metal network. Methods of making the getter devices are described.

Abstract: A modular getter pump includes a first and a second supporting electrode. At least one strip of high ohmic resistance material is connected to and supported by the first and second supporting electrodes. The strip of high ohmic resistance material has a length much greater than its width and only a nominal thickness and is pleated into flat substantially parallel zones which are uniformly separated from each other. The pleated strip forms a substrate having a non-evaporable getter metal at least partially embedded therein. A rod means is orthogonally positioned with respect to the width of the pleated strip for maintaining the separation between adjacent parallel zones. Such modular getter pumps can be used singularly or in a multiple array to sorb gases in closed vessels such as, for example, fusion reactors, particle accelerators, storage rings, neutral beam injectors, and others.

Abstract: A color television picture tube comprising a glass cone portion, a glass window portion and a metal screening cone. The metal screening cone is located within the volume defined by the glass cone portion and the glass window portion. At least a major portion of the metal screening cone is distanced away from the glass cone portion. An evaporable getter device is placed between the metal screening cone and the glass cone portion. Getter material vapors from the getter device evaporate in a direction substantially parallel to the surfaces of the glass window portion, the glass cone portion and the metal screening cone.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nuclear reactor fuel element which contains a pre-activated non-evaporable getter material such that the getter material starts to sorb gases at a temperature lower than the temperature at which the fuel element walls start to sorb gas. The invention is further directed to a getter device which can be employed in a nuclear fuel element and the nuclear fuel element per se.

Abstract: A means for connecting a vacuum pump to a chamber to be evacuated comprises an outer wall of low gas permeability and a gas sorptive means substantially coextensive with the inner surface of said outer wall.

Abstract: A wall structure comprising a first surface defining the commencement of a thickness of a metal or ceramic sheet, and a second surface defining the end of said thickness of said sheet said second surface also defining the commencement of a thickness of a three dimensional network defining a multiplicity of interconnecting free cells and a third surface defining the end of said thickness of said three dimensional network.

Abstract: A method of producing a substrate having a particulate coating of high surface area to mass ratio, said method comprising in sequence the steps of:I. disposing between a substrate and an intermediate body a mixture comprising:A. hard substrate-embedding particles which are harder than the substrate and are harder than the intermediate body, andB. attachment-resistant particles having at least one property selected from the group consisting of:1. a hardness less than that of the substrate and2. a size such that they pass through a screen of 270 mesh per inch,Ii. compressing the substrate and intermediate body, with particles therebetween whereby the intermediate body pushes the hard substrate-embedding particles into the substrate, andIii. removing the intermediate body from the particles leaving the hard substrate-embedding particles embedded in the substrate and the attachment-resistant particles adhering to the substrate.