Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited

Rolls-Royce Corporation

Alexander Scott

Roy Simmons

Peter Eric Peck

A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has a hollow aerofoil and a root. A first insert for the distribution of cooling air in the aerofoil is inserted thereinto through an opening in the root but due to the relatively high camber of the blade the insert is such that it has to be displaced laterally after insertion. A second insert, also inserted through the opening, is provided to secure the first insert in position and to guide the cooling air from the opening to the first insert.

Rotor blade for gas turbine engines

A stator blade for a gas turbine engine comprises a stack of laminar sections and means adapted to resiliently hold the sections together in compression to allow for differential expansion between the stack and supporting structure.

Blade for a gas turbine engine

A turbine blade comprising an aerofoil-shaped body having a main portion and a trailing portion, the latter being of undulating shape so as to define at each side of the blade chordally extending troughs. The blade may include cooling air holes extending from the interior of the main portion to a surface of the troughs.

Turbine blade

A ducted fan gas turbine engine comprises a pair of turbines in flow series which are contra-rotating and which drive shafts which in turn drive into an epicyclic gear. The output from the epicyclic gear drives a fan which normally provides forward thrust from the engine. The fan can be made to rotate in the opposite direction to provide reverse thrust by varying the relative speeds of rotation of the two turbines by bleeding working fluid from between them.

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Alexander Scott