Rolls-royce Corporation

Rolls-royce P L C

Carlton Smith

Allan J Salt

Alan Cash

In a sealing arrangement between two discs of a gas turbine engine a split sealing arrangement comprising a pair of sealing formations each made up of a plurality of sealing segments is provided. Each of the segments has a root accommodated in serrations of the discs. The roots of the sealing segments are positively connected to roots of the rotor blades by dovetail or T-shaped tongues and grooves. The sealing segments are also provided with internal cooling passages.

Gas turbine engine sealing arrangement

In a gas turbine engine including a turbine which has a closed cycle steam cooling system and an open cycle gas cooling system sealing arrangements are provided between adjacent pairs of turbine rotor stages. The sealing arrangement has axially extending passages to supply cooling gas from one of the turbine rotor stages to the cooling gas passages in the turbine rotor blades. Each sealing arrangement comprises a pair of sealing formations each made up of a plurality of sealing segments. Also the sealing arrangement has axially extending passages to supply steam from one of the turbine rotor stages to the steam cooling passages in the turbine rotor blades.

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Carlton Smith