General Electric Company

James Cottrell Hoyer

Gregg Hunt Wilson

Antonio Salas Gonzalez

Richard Walter Gronostaj

Mark Sean Mayersky

Ronald C Beatty

Daniel Kelly Baldwin

A fuel system for a gas turbine engine having a fuel conduit carried within an outer containment member for receiving and containing leakage from the fluid conduit. The fuel conduit includes an end that carries an elongated ferrule that has a first, enlarged head end to receive a connecting nut and a second end for receiving an end of the fuel conduit and for spacing the end of the fuel conduit from the head end of the ferrule. The ferrule has a body portion intermediate the first and second ends that has a tapered outer surface so that the body portion has thicker side wall adjacent the head end than that adjacent the second end.

Turbine engine fuel supply system

Air collecting manifold for a gas turbine engine including a plurality of arcuate pipe segments surrounding a compressor casing receives air from a system of feed tubes incorporating spherical ball joints to allow for differential thermal growth and limit transmission of vibration from one component of the manifold structure to another.

Air manifold system

A fuel manifold assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a spray shield that directs fuel that may leak from fuel line connections away from engine components. The spray shield attaches around the fuel line connections and includes a first portion and a second portion that is sized to be received within the first portion. The first portion includes at least two retention straps and the second portion includes at least one attachment projection and a pair of openings used to drain the fuel away from the engine. The second portion attaches to the first portion in only one orientation.

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

James Cottrell Hoyer