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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2015
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Thomas Alan Mogle, Greenville, SC (US);
Wayne Sullivan, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A flow sleeve removal tool including: a shaft having an axis; a bracket attached to the shaft including a ring configured to abut and be releasably attached to an end of a flow sleeve of a gas turbine engine; a shaft attached to the bracket and coaxial with a flow sleeve of a gas turbine engine; a counter balance attached to the shaft, and a cable connector mounted to the shaft between the counter balance and the flow sleeve, wherein the cable connector is configured to attach to a cable connected to an overhead support structure and the cable connector is at a position on the shaft at which the flow sleeve is substantially balances the counter weight.