Patent ID: 7004432

Claim:
A flap deployment mechanism for an aircraft flap arrangement in which the flap is deployable between a first stowed, or “cruise” position and a second deployed position, the deployment movement including translational movement of the flap for which the flap is mounted on a carriage for rolling movement along a track, the track having opposed rolling surfaces thereon and the carriage being movable along the track on at least two pairs of rollers, each pair of rollers having one roller running on each opposed rolling surface and the rollers in each pair being linked by a connecting means that maintains the roller in each pair of rollers at a fixed distance apart in use, the connecting means is pivotally mounted to the carriage such that when the track is of multiple curvature the connecting means pivots about the carriage maintaining both said rollers in each said pair of rollers in rolling contact with their respective track rolling surface at all times.