Rolls-royce Corporation

Colin J High

Mark Hugh Raffles

Helen L Llewellyn-Powell

An adhesive fastening element () for holding a workpiece (), the adhesive fastening element () comprising: a body () defining a recess () for receiving a protrusion () of the workpiece (); wherein, in use, adhesive is applied between an end surface of the recess () and an end surface of the protrusion () and between a side surface of the recess () and a side surface of the protrusion () to bond the workpiece () to the adhesive fastening element (). The workpiece () may be aligned with a reference point on the adhesive fastening element () and the adhesive cured to fix the position of the workpiece () relative to the adhesive fastening element ().

Adhesive fastening elements for holding a workpiece

A method of fixturing a plurality of dissimilar blade assemblies, wherein each assembly undergoes one or more manufacturing steps to bring it to a finished form, the method comprising the step of providing on each of the articles a datum feature, wherein each datum feature is of identical form and dimension, in turn a) locating the datum feature of a first one of the articles in a complimentary fixture to secure the dissimilar article, b) performing at least one manufacturing step on the secured dissimilar article, c) removing the dissimilar article from the fixture, d) locating the datum feature of another of the articles in the complimentary fixture to secure the dissimilar article, e) performing at least one manufacturing step on the secured dissimilar article, f) removing the dissimilar article from the fixture.

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Colin J High