Rolls-Royce Corporation

Michael J Jago

Keith C Sadler

Michiel Kopmels

Sean Alan Walters

Peter Jeffrey Goodman

Simon Bather

A cooling arrangement is provided in which an incident coolant flow is presented to a passage such that a proportion of that flow is diverted in order to create a standing relative overpressure in a chamber compared to the actual static pressure of the flow in the passage. In such circumstances through flow transfer apertures in the walls of the chamber forced coolant flows are presented for impingement upon surfaces and therefore greater heat transfer. Generally, coolant flow is presented to both ends of the chamber in order to create the relative standing overpressure in the chamber relative to the current static pressure presented in the passage through the incident flow. In such circumstances through utilizing the dynamic rotation or other motion of a component incorporating the arrangement a higher relative pressure is achieved for greater force coolant flow projection compared to the incident or actual static pressure of the incident coolant flow in the.

Cooling arrangement

An air cooled component with an internal air cooling system comprising an internal cavity which is divided into at least two compartments. The compartments are arranged in flow sequence by communication through side wall chambers formed in the wall of the component. At least one of the side wall chambers is sub-divided into a plurality of cells in flow parallel and each of the cells has at least one air entry aperture and at least one air exit aperture.

Air cooled aerofoil

In an investment casting process including the known steps of injecting a molten wax into a die, allowing the wax to solidify, removing the die, investing the wax with ceramic, firing the ceramic and removing the wax so as to provide a ceramic mould, and casting a molten material into the mould, and apparatus including a ceramic core the shape and size of the cavity to be provided in the blade, a removable wax impression die surrounding and spaced from the core member so that the space between the die and the core member is the shape and size of the blade, there is provided a number of platinum chaplets adapted and arranged to support and locate the core in relation to the ceramic mould by point contact abutment with an adjacent mould surface.

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Michael J Jago