Non-metallic cover for a fixture
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsKirk D. Hlavaty, Stephen V. Glynn, Gordon Miller Reed
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Abstract
An assembly used in performing a manufacturing process on a turbine engine component includes a turbine engine component and a fixture including an opening shaped to receive a portion of the turbine engine component. The assembly includes a non-metallic cover placed over at least a portion of an external surface of the fixture. The non-metallic cover is visible when positioned over the at least a portion of the external surface of the fixture and is visible when the turbine engine component is received in the fixture opening of the fixture.
Claims30
An assembly used in performing a manufacturing process on a turbine engine component, the assembly comprising:
- a turbine engine component;
- a fixture including a fixture opening, the fixture opening receives a portion of the turbine engine component, wherein the fixture includes an alignment feature;
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- a non-metallic cover positioned over at least a portion of an external surface of the fixture, wherein the non-metallic cover is visible when positioned over the at least a portion of the external surface of the fixture and is visible when the turbine engine component is received in the fixture opening of the fixture, and the non-metallic cover includes a hole, and the hole receives and aligns the alignment feature to position the non-metallic cover relative to the fixture, wherein the hole is located in a planar portion of the non-metallic cover.
A method of performing a manufacturing process on a turbine engine component, the method comprising the steps of:
- installing a turbine engine component in a fixture opening of a fixture, wherein the fixture includes an alignment feature;
- positioning a non-metallic cover over at least a portion of an external surface of the fixture, wherein the non-metallic cover is visible when positioned over the at least a portion of the external surface of the fixture and is visible when the turbine engine component is received in the fixture opening of the fixture, and the non-metallic cover includes a hole, wherein the hole is located in a planar portion of the non-metallic cover;
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- receiving and aligning the hole with the alignment feature to position the non-metallic cover relative to the fixture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.