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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1998
Jack T. Matsumoto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alex B. Fife, San Jose, CA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A top guide assembly for securing a top guide to a shroud which enables the top guide to be remotely removed without removing any other parts of the shroud or the core support structure is described. In one embodiment, the top guide assembly includes a hanger for being secured in a groove formed in an inner surface of the shroud, and the hanger includes a ledge having a plurality of openings therein. The top guide rests on an upper surface of the ledge. The assembly also includes wedges for being positioned in pockets formed in the top guide and tightly fit between the hanger and the top guide, and threaded studs for extend through respective aligned bores in the wedges and openings in the ledge. A nut and a keeper are engaged to one end of each stud to retain the wedge between the hanger and the top guide grid.