Patent ID: 7594312

Claim:
A method of aligning and connecting a threaded male fastener to a correspondingly threaded female fastener comprising: providing one of the threaded male fastener or correspondingly threaded female fastener with a guide sleeve having a cylindrical internal surface and a central axis aligned with a central axis of the one of the male or female fastener; providing the other of the threaded male fastener or correspondingly threaded female fastener with a guide member having a cylindrical external surface and a central axis aligned with a central axis of the other of the male or female fastener, the guide member cylindrical external surface being slidingly and rotatably movable with respect to the guide sleeve cylindrical internal surface; sliding the guide member into the guide sleeve, such that the threaded male and female fasteners are coaxially aligned; contacting the threaded female fastener with the threaded male fastener; and rotating the guide member with respect to the guide sleeve so that threads of the male fastener engage threads of the female fastener.