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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2010
David Bond, Gloucestershire, GB;
Paul Trowbridge, Oxford, GB;
Andrew Smith, Gloucester, GB;
Richard Masson, Buc, FR;
Patrick Dunleavy, Palaiseau, FR;
David Bond, Gloucestershire, GB;
Paul Trowbridge, Oxford, GB;
Andrew Smith, Gloucester, GB;
Richard Masson, Buc, FR;
Patrick Dunleavy, Palaiseau, FR;
MESSIER-DOWTY LIMITED, Gloucester, GB;
MESSIER-BUGATTI-DOWTY, Velizy-Villacoublay, FR;
Abstract
An apparatus includes a fitting connected to a body. The fitting has an engagement portion including a channel formed into a peripheral surface of it and an axis. The body includes an axial layer provided around at least some of the peripheral surface of the engagement portion of the end fitting and a hoop layer provided around the axial layer at a location corresponding to at least some of the channel so as to urge at least some of the axial layer into a portion of the channel. The channel is arranged such that at least some of it defines a pathway that is non-orthogonal with respect to the axis of the fitting, such that at least some of the surface area of the channel defines a load bearing surface for the transfer of torque between the fitting and body when a rotational force is applied to one of them.