Sundstrand Corporation

Linn C Shorb

Jack R Shekleton

Michael W Sledd

Difficulties in downsizing annular combustors (20) due to orienting fuel injectors with respect to oxidant blast tubes are avoided in a construction for a combustor (20) including radially spaced annular walls (22, 24) and an interconnecting radial wall (26) defining an annular combustion chamber (32). A plurality of circumferentially spaced tubes (28, 30) extend through the radially outermost annular wall (24) and are directed generally tangentially into the combustion space (32). A plurality of fuel injectors (42) are provided for directing fuel radially inwardly into the space (32) and are circumferentially spaced about the combustion space (32) and located between the tubes (28).

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Linn C Shorb