Figure 5
EdgeDewar ED8. (a) Sample vessel with eight puck slots, the gripper parking slot and the liquid-nitrogen pump with three ice filters at the top (one is removed for clarity and represented as a dashed green line). (b) Detail of the ice-filtering system showing the liquid-nitrogen pump with one of its three filling ports connected to an ice filter (removed) and equipped with a closing valve connected to a float inside the pump, the pressurization pipe and the output pipe connected to the supply ramp. The red dashed line indicates the average level of liquid nitrogen in the main dewar vessel. |