Patent ID: 8292074

Claim:
A stabilizer suitable for stabilizing stacked brake disks of an aircraft heat pack, said heat pack having a height, wherein the stabilizer comprises: at least two elongate parallel pushers of height at least equal to the height of the heat pack and defining an elongate direction, each of said at least two elongate parallel pushers being movable in a direction perpendicular to the elongate direction of said pusher, each of said at least two elongate parallel pushers being associated with an irreversible driver system enabling said pusher to be moved apart or towards another of said at least two elongate parallel pushers, the at least two elongate parallel pushers extending in service so as to have a surface thereof in said elongate direction and along said heat pack height face an inside diameter surface of the disks and be brought into engagement with said inside diameter surface of all of the disks in said heat pack in order to stabilize said disks, wherein the inside diameter surface comprises a surface of a notch in said disks.