Disc-loaded waveguide tuning machine which automatically tunes successive cavities by indenting waveguide wall

Claim 1

A HIGH-SPEED APPARATUS FOR TUNING RADIO-FREQUENCY CAVITIES IN A LINEAR ACCELERATOR WAVEGUIDE SECTION COMPRISING: (A) FRAME SUPPORT MEANS; (B) CAVITY INDENTING MEANS SECURED TO SAID FRAME SUPPORT MEANS IN TRANSLATABLE RELATION THEREALONG; (C) SUPPORT AND SEAL MEANS DEMOUNTABLY COUPLED IN VACUUM SEALED RELATION BETWEEN THE ENDS OF SAID SECTION AND SAID FRAME SUPPORT MEANS TO SECURE IN PREDETERMINED POSITION SAID SECTION RELATIVE TO SAID PLUNGER INDENTING MEANS; (D) DRIVE MEANS MOUNTED TO SAID FRAME SUPPORT MEANS AND COUPLED TO SAID CAVITY INDENTING MEANS TO PROVIDE TRANSLATION OF SAID INDENTING MEANS WITH RESPECT TO SAID FRAME SUPPORT MEANS; (E) POSITION MONITORING MEANS COUPLED BETWEEN SAID INDENTING MEANS AND SAID FRAME SUPPORT MEANS TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN THE POSITION OF SAID INDENTING MEANS RELATIVE TO THE SUCCESSION OF WAVEGUIDE SECTION CAVITIES; (F) POWER SOURCE MEANS COUPLED TO SAID WAVEGUIDE SECTION TO INTRODUCE RADIO-FREQUENCY DRIVING POWER THERETO; (G) AND SIGNAL MEASURING MEANS COUPLED TO SAID WAVEGUIDE SECTION TO MONITOR THE GENERATED SIGNAL WITHIN THE CAVITY BEING TUNED UPON INTRODUCTION OF RADIOFREQUENCY POWER FROM SAID POWER SOURCE MEANS, WHEREBY EACH OF THE CAVITIES OF SAID WAVEGUIDE SECTION IS SUCCESSIVELY INDENTED BY SAID INDENTING MEANS IN PROPORTION TO THE SIGNAL MONITORED BY SAID SIGNAL MEASURING MEANS.