Patent ID: 7536899

Claim:
An apparatus for fluid testing a flange penetrator seal, said apparatus comprising: a flange cover in which said flange cover has two faces protruding opposite to each other and spaced away from a central plane wherein a first face is a flattened plane and a second face decreases in distance from a first and second end to the central plane with a recess positioned within said second face decreasing in distance to the central plane and a groove within said second face encompassing said recess, said flange cover including a pressure fitting at said first face and fluidly connected to said recess; a flange extension mechanically attachable to said second face of said flange cover at a first surface shaped inverse to said second face of said flange cover, said flange extension having a second surface extending at an angle away from said first surface, said flange extension mechanically attachable at said second surface to a flange supported by the flange penetrator seal and said second surface having a fitting fluidly connected to a recess at said first surface of said flange extension wherein a said flange extension is mateable to said flange cover and a flange supported by the flange penetrator seal for creating a volume for sealing the flange penetrator seal; a gasket sized to be positioned within said groove such that said gasket is capable of being compressed by said flange extension and said flange cover when both are mated; and a strip gasket sized to be positioned within the created volume and sized to encompass the flange penetrator seal; wherein said pressure fitting is fluidly connectable to a pressure source such that said apparatus is capable of fluidly testing the flange penetrator seal in the created volume and wherein said fitting of said flange extension is capable of draining said apparatus after the fluid testing.