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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Paula Marie Word, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Lucas John Stoia, Taylors, SC (US);
Jeffrey J. Hogan, Pickens, SC (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to an assembly tool kit for a bundled tube fuel nozzle assembly. The assembly tool kit includes a plurality of pins. Each pin includes a shaft portion, a tapered portion coupled to a first end of the shaft portion, and a contoured portion coupled to a second end of the shaft portion. The contoured portion includes a cylindrical section and a frustoconical section. The tapered and shaft portions of each of the plurality of pins are positioned within a passage defined by one of a plurality of tubes forming a portion of a bundled tube fuel nozzle assembly. The contoured portion of each of the plurality of pins is positioned in one of a plurality of cap plate apertures. Each of the plurality of pins radially aligns one of the plurality of cap plate apertures with a corresponding tube of the plurality of tubes.