Patent ID: 7794203

Claim:
A joint in a turbomachine, comprising: a first assembly which includes an inner wall member, an axis of said first assembly is the same as an axis of said turbomachine; a second assembly which includes an outer wall member, an axis of said second assembly is the same as said axis of said turbomachine; an annular space defined between said first assembly and said second assembly; a clevis which is attached to said inner wall member of the first assembly, said clevis including a first lug with a first clevis hole and a second lug with a second clevis hole, said first lug includes a first side and a second side, opposite said first side, and said first clevis hole is substantially perpendicular to said first side and said second side of said first lug, said second lug includes a first side and a second side, opposite said first side, and said second clevis hole is substantially perpendicular to said first side and said second side of said second lug; a connecting member which is fixedly attached to said outer wall member of the second assembly at a first end of said connecting member, said connecting member including a through hole disposed between said first lug and said second lug of said clevis at a second end of the connecting member, opposite said first end of said connecting member; and a shear pin which passes through each of said first clevis hole, second clevis hole and through hole, wherein said shear pin includes a first threaded end at a first end of the shear pin which threadably engages a nut, said nut abuts against said first side of said second clevis lug, wherein said shear pin includes, at a second end opposite the first threaded end, a bushing with a widened portion which passes through said first clevis hole and is fixed within said first clevis hole, said widened portion forms a shoulder disposed between said first and second clevis lugs, wherein said connecting member is disposed away from said first clevis lug along said shear pin, wherein a first side of said connecting member abuts against said shoulder and a second side of said connecting member, opposite said first side of said connecting member, abuts said second side of said second clevis lug, wherein said first side and said second side of said first clevis lug, said first side and said second side of said second clevis lug and said first side and said second side of said connecting member are substantially parallel to a clevis axis, and wherein said clevis axis is offset at an acute angle from said axis of said turbomachine.