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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1999
Charles E. Johnson, Randolph, NJ (US);
David John Pongracz, Bangor, PA (US);
Nancy Susan Rush, Broadway, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus holds a feeler gage. The apparatus includes a shaft having an end to which the feeler gage is attached. A fixture aligns the shaft with an opening into which the feeler gage is inserted. The opening may be a gap of a connector. A portion of the shaft is a measuring section having a plurality of markers. The markers are stripes, grooves, or lands on a portion of the shaft. The fixture comprises a channel, sleeve or bearing that guides the shaft onto the fixture. The fixture includes a ridge for insertion of the fixture onto a track. The fixture may have an alignment arm that engages a side surface of the connector. The fixture has a latch that attaches the fixture to the track. The latch of the fixture comprises two substantially parallel elongate members separated by a distance approximately equal to a width of the track. The feeler gage may be attached to the shaft by a clamp that allows any of a plurality of feeler gages to be detachably mounted, the plurality of feeler gages including gages having respectively different shapes and sizes. Alternatively, the assembly may include a plurality of shafts, each shaft attached to a respective feeler gage having a respectively different dimension, such that only one of the plurality of shafts is received by the track at any one time.