General Electric Company

Robert H Kraimer

Robert J Ellerhorst

Michael Even-Nur

Carl J Hoffmann, Jr

A bypass valve assembly includes an outer casing and a spaced outer liner defining an annular bypass channel for channeling bypass air. The outer liner includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced slots around which are positioned an annular valve body. The valve body is positionable from a closed position substantially blocking bypass airflow into the slots to an open position uncovering the slots. Positioning means rotates and translates the valve body over the outer liner for covering and uncovering the slots.

Variable area bypass valve assembly

A seal assembly is provided between an exhaust flap and a nozzle sidewall of a gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle. The assembly includes a housing fixedly joined to the exhaust flap and a plurality of adjoining plungers slidably disposed in the housing and each including a top extending outside a housing opening for defining a seal line for contacting the nozzle sidewall for sealing the exhaust gases from flowing therebetween. The seal lines collectively define a seal first contour being complementary to a first contour of the nozzle sidewall. A tie rod extends through the plungers and joins the plungers to the housing. The tie rod is flexible for allowing the plungers to rotate perpendicularly to the tie rod so that the seal lines collectively form a seal second contour, different than the seal first contour, to conform to a second contour of the nozzle sidewall which is different than the nozzle sidewall first contour.

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W. Chester, OH, United States of America

Robert H Kraimer