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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
May. 09, 2001
Larry Dean Cline, Fairfield, OH (US);
Dan Lee Neal, Middletown, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A drill guide that is capable of guiding the drilling holes, in particular lockwire holes, transversely through one corner of a nut at an oblique angle to a face thereof and a method for using same. The drill guide comprises at least one guide component having a first and a second side transverse to the first side. The first side has a recess with first and second surfaces for receiving the corner of the nut, the first surface being closer to the second side. Also included is a drill bit guide for guiding a drill bit of a drill that is accessible from the second side and extends towards the first surface of the recess along a longitudinal axis in the direction of the second surface of the recess so that the drill bit is capable of drilling a hole transversely through the corner of the nut at an oblique angle to the face of the nut that the drill bit initially engages.