Patent ID: 7690234

Claim:
A tip tool guide apparatus which is brought into a water chamber of a steam generator of nuclear power equipment, and guides various tip tools, necessary to perform shot peening, along a processing region for shot peening, the tip tool guide apparatus comprising a swivel support portion, a slide table and a manipulator, the swivel support portion including a lower base which is to become a portion landing on a bottom surface of the water chamber, a swivel portion mounted swingably on the lower base so as to be capable of swiveling in a horizontal plane when standing in a vertical direction, an upper support portion which is provided to be movable upward and downward with respect to the lower base and abuts on a ceiling surface of the water chamber when ascending, and an elevating mechanism for raising and lowering the upper support portion, the slide table including a table portion, connecting means for connecting the table portion to the swivel portion detachably, and a slide portion which moves slidingly with respect to the table portion and supports a proximal end portion of the manipulator detachably, and the manipulator having at a leading end thereof a tool changer for supporting the tip tool detachably.