The Boler Company

Sonoco Development Incorporated

Anabios Corporation

Paul Edward Miller

Jeffrey R Wittlinger

Lawrence Robert Carpenter

Gary E Gerstenslager

Jamie Lynn Ackerman

Steven Kubilius

Eric Bauer

Najah Elias Abi Georges

Andrea Piero Ghetti

An improved fixture and method for assembling a structure, wherein the improved fixture comprises a frame and a pair of position compliance devices. The compliance devices are attached to a selected one of the ends of the fixture frame for engagement with the arms of a selected one of a headstock and a tailstock used to rotate the fixture and structure to be assembled. The compliance devices each comprise a slidable block having a locating pin rotatably mounted therein, which enables the fixture to be accurately and removably positioned between a headstock and a tailstock, serving to reduce unwanted stress on the fixture and the structure to be assembled during rotation. Removability of the fixture and structure to be assembled facilitates convenient loading/unloading of the structure and 360 degree access to the structure and fixture by an operator.

Fixture and method for assembling structures

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Alliance, OH, United States of America

Paul Edward Miller