United Technologies Corporation

Lee E Hansen

Jack W Wilson, Jr

Gregg W Jones

George A Bonner

Herbert L Burchette

William R Ulrich

James C West

Glen A Nawrocki

J Britt Ingram

A combustor element face plate made of a thermally highly conductive material, such as copper, has a plurality of cooling holes extending therethrough. Some of the cooling holes are located about the injector openings, while other cooling holes are located adjacent the peripheral edge of the face plate.

Combustor injector face plate cooling scheme

A split casing (10) of low, coefficient of expansion material, has internal upstream facing slots (12). A semicircular shroud ring (16), of high coefficient of expansion material, carries the vanes (18), and has a tongue (20) sliding within casing slot (12). Casing stop lugs (14) and shroud stop lugs (22) have mutually abuttable surfaces (70,72) to antirotate the shroud within the casing. The distance between abuttable surfaces of the casing is greater than the distance between abuttable surfaces of the shroud ring at room temperature, but the distance are the same at the long time operating temperature.

Axial compressor stator construction

An inner shroud for a gas turbine engine is described comprising six approximately equiangular segments each segment adapted to securely contain a plurality of vane stems. The segments comprise interlocking first and second sections forming a channel having an aperture suitably sized to securely contain the vane stem. The sections when fit together form an outer recess area suitably sized to substantially accommodate the button portion of the vane stem and an inner cavity suitably sized to accommodate the inner portion of the vane stem. This results in reduced shroud curling when used in a split case compressor.

Radially constrained variable vane shroud

A cylindrically shaped spacer between a shaft and hub of a turbine rotor of a gas turbine engine as fabricated from a flexible resilient material and interference fitted at discrete points on either side of the transverse axis of the spacer between the shaft and spacer and between the hub and spacer to impart a twist of the spacer about this axis to remain in contact with the hub and shaft throughout its entire rotating envelope.

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