Tool driving or impacting – With work engaging means supporting drive – Anchored to work
Reexamination Certificate
2005-01-18
2005-01-18
Smith, Scott A. (Department: 3721)
Tool driving or impacting
With work engaging means supporting drive
Anchored to work
C173S031000, C173S037000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06843328
ABSTRACT:
A flexible track drilling machine employs a pair of rails that are flexible in one direction to conform to a non-flat workpiece surface and are substantially stiff in a direction parallel to the workpiece surface. The rails are attached to the workpiece by vacuum cups spaced along each rail. An X-axis carriage is slidably mounted on the rails by rollers mounted on flexible spring plates affixed to the carriage. A drill or other device to be positioned is mounted on a Y-axis carriage that is slidably connected to the X-axis carriage. The three-dimensional surface of the workpiece is mathematically transformed into a two-dimensional flat pattern, and the positioning of the carriages is controlled based on the flat pattern.
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Boyl-Davis Theodore Martin
Buttrick Jr. James N.
Gage Roger A.
Jones Darrell D.
Papanikolaou Kostandinos D.
Alston & Bird LLP
Nash Brian
Smith Scott A.
The Boeing Company
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