Patent ID: 6942384

Claim:
A housing device for a probe used to measure an internal temperature in a container, the container having an interior wall ( 12 ) separated from an exterior wall ( 11 ) by an annular space ( 13 ) for accommodating a heat exchanging fluid ( 14 ), which at least partially regulates a temperature of the container; wherein the housing device is formed in the container ( 1 ) in a lower portion thereof, the housing device comprises a localized deformation in the interior wall ( 12 ) of the container ( 1 , 25 ) which extends inwardly toward an interior of the container ( 1 , 25 ) to form a wall projection located to be completely immersed within a reactive environment of the container ( 1 , 25 ), the housing device has a recessed area ( 21 ), formed in a rear surface thereof, which does not completely penetrate through the interior wall ( 12 ) and defines a hollow space ( 23 ) in communication with the exterior of the container for accommodating a temperature sensing end of the probe therein for measuring a temperature of the reactive environment within the container ( 1 , 25 ) by contact between the temperature sensing end of the probe and a base of the wall projection so as to position the probe at a measurement location spaced radially inward from the interior wall ( 12 ) of the container so that an entire surface of the wall projection is completely immersed within a reactive environment of the container ( 1 , 25 ) when a temperature is measured.