Patent ID: 7617745

Claim:
The method of engaging a pressurized fluid system with a probe, comprising the steps of: a. providing a probe housing assembly for insertion and retraction of a probe into a pressurized vessel, comprising: a telescoping probe having first and second ends, said telescoping probe having an internal fluid passage formed therethrough extending from said first end of said telescoping probe to said second end of said telescoping probe; a housing having first and second ends, said housing having an internal cavity formed therethrough extending from said first end of said housing to said second end of said housing, said housing formed to engage, in a fluidly sealed manner, a pressurized fluid process in said pressurized vessel; said telescoping probe slidingly disposed in said internal cavity formed in said housing in an approximate coaxial relationship with said housing, such that said second end of said telescoping probe can engage, in a fluidly sealed manner, said second end of said housing; b. engaging said first end of said housing to valve engaging a pressurized vessel containing a pressurized fluid process; c. opening said valve, providing an opening; d. allowing said pressurized fluid process to selectively pass through said opening in said valve, and into said internal cavity formed in said housing; e. extending said first end of said probe from said housing, through said open valve, into said pressure vessel, such that said first end of said probe engages said pressurized fluid process; f. retracting said probe into said housing, and g. closing said valve.