Remote access washer with bolt alignment tool
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorArthur F. Finn
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Abstract
An aligning apparatus for inserting a bolt and a washer in a remote or reicted place for securing equipment. A standard washer is permanently attached to the end of tubing, a bolt is inserted in the tubing through the washer and held in position by a tool inserted in the tubing, mating with the bolt. This combination is placed in alignment with a normally inaccessible threaded hole. The bolt is turned into the hole and secured by a torquing action on the tool. For the reverse process, removal tabs are attached to the tubing to accomplish intact extraction of the bolt, washer, and tubing.
Claims3
Apparatus for aligning and tightening, comprising, in combination:
- a bolt;
- a washer;
- an alignment tube, said washer affixed to one end of said tube, said bolt inserted into said tube, the head of said bolt facing the other end of said tube;
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- an extension tool having an outside diameter minutely smaller than the inside diameter of said tube, thereby permitting said tool to be inserted into and rotated within said tube, said tool being shaped at one end so as to mate with said bolt and being nut-shaped at the other end for receiving a wrench;
- whereby said bolt and said washer may be aligned and tightened in a remote or restricted, normally inaccessible hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.