Ansaldo Energia Switzerland Ag

General Electric Company

Ansaldo Energia IP UK Limited

Sarah Heaven

Sascha Justl

Rudolf Kellerer

Vasileios Stefanis

Shyam Mavani

Jiwen Tao

Stacie Tibos

Philip James Corser

Arthur Mateusz Faflik-Brooks

A sealing system for a rotary machine is provided. The sealing system includes a pair of circumferentially adjacent rotary components. Each of the rotary components includes a platform, a shank, and a radial seal. The shank extends radially inwardly from the platform and includes a radially extending first side channel and an opposite radially extending second side channel. The radial seal includes a first leg received in the first side channel of a first of the pair of rotary components, a second leg received in the second side channel of a second of the pair of rotary components (), and a resiliently deformable body extending therebetween, the body including a U-shaped portion located generally centrally between the first leg and the second leg.

Sealing system for a rotary machine and method of assembling same

The invention refers to a blade of a rotary flow machine including an airfoil having a suction surface and a pressure surface joining each other along a trailing and a leading edge. A radially outward directed airfoil tip and a radially inward directed end joining an inner platform connect the airfoil to a shank at a radial end of the airfoil and providing, at least one shank pocket radially encircled by an axially extending portion of the platform. At least one radially extending rim extends from the trailing edge side of the shank and has an essentially radially orientated first slot for receiving a seal. A mount extends radially inwardly from said shank pocket. The first slot has a first aperture on a shank surface orientated in an axial direction.

Blade of a rotary flow machine with a radial strip seal

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Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Sarah Heaven