Patent ID: 8276509

Claim:
An apparatus for compression of a lamination stack for a dynamoelectric machine, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of hanger brackets attached to a face frame; a plurality of force application tubes secured to the plurality of hanger brackets, the plurality of force application tubes having a plurality of through holes configured to accept a hanger pin and a height adjustment pin, the hanger pin is used to hang one of the plurality of force application tubes on one of the plurality of hanger brackets, and the height adjustment pin is used to lock one of the plurality of force application tubes to one of the plurality of hanger brackets; a plurality of force applying rams, where one of the plurality of force applying rams is located beneath one of the plurality of force application tubes; a plurality of pressing plates located beneath the plurality of force applying rams; a plurality of weight distribution plates located beneath the plurality of pressing plates; wherein, at least one of the plurality of force applying rams is located between a bottom end of one of the force application tubes and the top of one of the pressing plates.