General Electric Company

John Thomas Basirico

Timothy Scott McMurray

Thomas Joseph Farineau

Robert James Bracken

Edward Arthur Dewhurst

Laurence Scott Duclos

Tai Joung Kim

Manuel Fernandez

Timothy Scott Mcmurray

Manuel Julio Gomez Fernandez

The present application provides a turbine rotor and blade assembly for a steam turbine. The turbine rotor and blade assembly may include a rotor, a number of buckets positioned about the rotor and a locking blade positioned about the rotor. The locking blade may include a base, a first side hook, and a second side hook. The locking blade may include a first side pilot hole defined between the base and the first side hook and a second side pilot hole defined between the base and the second side hook.

Turbine rotor and blade assembly with multi-piece locking blade

A bucket assembly includes a plurality of first buckets, and a pair of transition buckets. Each first bucket includes a bucket cover including a pair of lateral edges each having a first configuration. Each transition bucket includes a transition cover including a first lateral edge having the first configuration and a second lateral edge having a second configuration.

Integral cover bucket assembly

The present application provides a turbine rotor and blade assembly for a steam turbine. The turbine rotor and blade assembly may include a rotor, a number of buckets positioned about the rotor, and a locking blade positioned about the rotor. The locking blade may include a multi-piece configuration.

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Albany, NY, United States of America

John Thomas Basirico