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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
James N. Buttrick, Seattle, WA (US);
Alan Ray Merkley, Greenbank, WA (US);
Philip Marten Wright, Clinton, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B27B 5/00 ; B27B 9/04 ; B21D 5/300 ; B23P 6/00 ; B26D 5/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B27B 5/00 ; B27B 9/04 ; B21D 5/300 ; B23P 6/00 ; B26D 5/08 ;
Abstract
One side of an access panel is trimmed while an opposite side of the panel is secured in an opening between skin sheets on the underside of an aircraft wing. The trimming apparatus includes a frame secured to one of the skin sheets with a rail extending along an edge of the opening and a trim saw assembly slideable along the rail. The frame can be secured in position by several vacuum cups, and can include index flanges engageable against an edge of the opening for precise positioning of the rail and the trim saw assembly carried thereby.