Tire alignment breaker bar, yoke and articulating utility
AssigneeGovernment of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
InventorsTabitha Au, Michael Williamson
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Abstract
A tool for aligning a nose tire on a F-35 aircraft. The tool defining a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular thereto. The tool has a yoke having two opposed arms extending outwardly from a common proximal end to two transversely spaced distal ends defining a space between the arms. Each arm has a protuberance at the distal end of the respective arm and articulable between open and closed positions. A trunnion adapted to fit into a gudgeon of a F-35 landing gear is disposed on each articulable protuberance. The trunnion extends towards the longitudinal axis and engages the gudgeon when the protuberance is in the closed position and easily disengages from the gudgeon when the protuberance is in the open position.
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A tool for aligning a nose tire on a F-35 aircraft, the tool defining a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular thereto and comprising:
- a yoke having two opposed arms extending outwardly from a common proximal end to two transversely spaced distal ends remote therefrom and defining a space therebetween, each arm having an articulable protuberance proximate the distal end of the respective arm wherein each protuberance is bilaterally articulable from a closed position wherein the respective trunnion is parallel to the transverse axis to an open position wherein the respective trunnion is skewed relative to the transverse axis, protuberance being bistable in the open position and the closed position and not therebetween;
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- a trunnion disposed on each articulable protuberance, each trunnion extending towards the longitudinal axis and being adapted to fit into a gudgeon of a F-35 landing gear.
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A tool for aligning a nose tire on a F-35 aircraft, the tool defining a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular thereto and comprising:
- a yoke having two opposed arms extending outwardly from a common proximal end to two transversely spaced distal ends remote therefrom and defining a space therebetween, each arm having an articulable protuberance proximate the distal end of the respective arm;
- a trunnion disposed on each articulable protuberance, each trunnion extending towards the longitudinal axis and being adapted to fit into a gudgeon of a F-35 landing gear, and a pair of springs with a spring operably associated with each protuberance and biasing each protuberance towards a closed position wherein the protuberance is parallel to the transverse axis.
A tool for aligning a nose tire on a F-35 aircraft, the tool defining a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular thereto and comprising:
- a yoke having two opposed arms extending outwardly from a common proximal end to two transversely spaced distal ends remote therefrom and defining a space therebetween, each arm having an articulable protuberance proximate the distal end of the respective arm;
- a trunnion disposed on each articulable protuberance, each trunnion extending towards the longitudinal axis and being adapted to fit into a gudgeon of a F-35 landing gear;
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- an elongate breaker bar cantilevered outwardly from the common proximal end of the yoke.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.