General Electric Company

Christopher Thomas Schuppe

John David Bibler

Richard William Jendrix

Charles Thomas McMillan

Christopher John Van Derven

Samuel Joseph Stoughton

Gas turbine engine turbine blade assembly includes a hollow airfoil joined to blade root, dovetail slot heat shield bonded or attached to a bottom surface of the root, and a shield outlet from heat shield open to inlet apertures extending radially through a radially inner root end of the root. Heat shield may have body with legs extending upwardly from heat shield bottom, slanted open upstream end, and free ends of the legs longer than the heat shield bottom. Flanges may be located along free ends and bonded to bottom surface. Body, heat shield bottom and/or the legs may be rounded. Disk includes a plurality of dovetail slots formed in a rim, complimentary plurality of turbine blades removably retained in dovetail slots by the roots, slot bottoms of the dovetail slots extending circumferentially between disk posts in rim. Heat shield bottoms may be radially spaced apart the slot bottoms.

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

Christopher Thomas Schuppe