Multi-anvil apparatus and test bodies therefor

Claim 1

SUPER HIGH PRESSURE APPARATUS COMPRISING, THREE PRESSURE MULTIPLYING ANVILS HAVING RESPECTIVE FRONT FACES DISPOSED AROUND THE PRINCIPAL AXIS OF AN AXIALLY ELONGATED PRISMATIC CAVITY OF EQUILATERAL TRIANGULAR CROSS SECTION NORMAL TO SAID AXIS TO DEFINE BY SAID FRONT FACES THE CIRCUMFERENTIAL PRISMATIC SURFACE OF SAID CAVITY, THE FRONT FACE OF EACH ANVIL BEING BISECTED BY A RESPECTIVE ONE OF THREE ANVIL CENTER PLANES EACH CONTAINING SAID AXIS TO FORM THREE 120* DIHEDRAL ANGLES THEREAROUND, EACH OF SAID ANVILS BEING CONVERGENTLY TAPERED TOWARDS THE FRONT FACE THEREOF BY TWO PLANAR SIDE FACES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE ANVIL CENTER PLANE AND DEFINING RESPECTIVE PLANES WHICH INTERSECT TO FORM A 120* DIHEDRAL ANGLE BISECTED BY SUCH CENTER PLANE, AND ALL SAID ANVILS BEING RENDERED MOVABLE RELATIVE TO AND TOWARDS EACH OTHER BY GAPS DISPOSED BETWEEN THE SIDE FACES OF SAID ANVILS TO SEPARATE EACH ANVIL FROM THE OTHERS, AND MEANS DISPOSED ABOUT SAID ANVILS TO SUBJECT EACH ANVIL TO AN INWARDLY DIRECTED FORCE OF WHICH THE CENTER LINE OF EFFECTIVE ACTION LIES IN SAID CENTER PLANE FOR SUCH ANVIL, SAID MEANS BEING FURTHER ADAPTED TO PRODUCE BETWEEN ALL OF SAID ANVILS A RELATIVE MOVEMENT TOWARDS EACH OTHER SO AS TO SUBJECT TO HIGH PRESSURE AT TEST BODY THEN CONTAINED IN SAID CAVITY.