Patent 7458401 was granted and assigned to Tubemaster, Inc. on December, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A tool that can be used to load catalyst into a chemical reactor. In a preferred embodiment, the tool may also be used to measure the outage in the reactor tube. Also in a preferred embodiment, the tool provides a way to prevent dust from accumulating on the upper tube sheet of the reactor while loading catalyst into the reactor tubes.