Patent ID: 6778209
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A high temperature camera apparatus including a video camera for viewing the interior of a high temperature chamber through an opening in a wall of the chamber, the apparatus comprising:(a) an elongated camera housing tube forming an interior passageway, for extending through the opening and having an exterior end for mounting relatively nearer the exterior of the chamber wall and an interior end for mounting near the interior of the chamber wall; (b) a removable, elongated camera support member extending into and along the camera housing tube and having the camera mounted near an interior end of the support member and extending to the exterior end, the support member supporting the camera at the interior end of the camera housing tube; (c) an air inlet manifold including an air inlet in fluid communication with the interior passageway of the camera housing tube for transporting cooling fluid along the interior passageway and cooling the camera.