Patent ID: 6823741
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
A wear gauge for checking excessive wear of the notches and lugs on a fueling nozzle adapter having a sealing surface comprising:an elongate body having a first end wall, a spaced apart second end wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall; said top wall including an upstanding shoulder contoured to be received by the adapter and an outwardly extending finger; said bottom wall including spaced apart parallel rails for contact with the sealing surface of the adapter provided to contact the fueling nozzle nose seal; said first end wall including a notch sized to normally prevent the entrance therein of any of the radially outwardly extending adapter lugs; and said second end wall including a downwardly extending leg spaced from the body containing an inwardly extending dowel pin normally preventing passage of the outwardly extending adapter lugs between the pin and the leg.