Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – Forging and bending – cutting or punching
Patent
1998-11-24
2000-06-13
Hughes, S. Thomas
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
Forging and bending, cutting or punching
29 33K, 292815, 227 52, 227111, 227110, 227 27, B23Q 102
Patent
active
060733268
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a portable process for automated fastening of aircraft structures. The invention will employ two primary elements for locating and installing through-the-skin fasteners. Inside and outside units are attached onto an airframe and indexed to each other through coordination holes that have been pre-drilled through the structure. The aircraft structure is assembled with the pre-drilled coordination holes by aligning adjacent airframe parts and inserting alignment pins. The alignment pins will provide a degree of clamping to pull the parts together and provide indexing for inside and outside vacuum attachment track systems. The invention is equipped to traverse along the track system, accurately position itself, and drill only or countersink a hole, insert a fastener, and fasten, i.e., upset a rivet, or run down a threaded nut, then reposition itself to the next fastener location and repeat the process.
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Banks David P.
Buttrick Jr. James N.
Glaisyer Charles H.
Jones Darrell D.
McCrum Russell C.
Blount Steven
Hughes S. Thomas
Nelson Lawrence W.
The Boeing Company
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