General Electric Company

United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force

The United States of America As Represented by the Administrator of the

William K Koffel

John Howard Starkweather

Eugene N Tuley

Charles H Gay, Jr

Edward S Hsia

Albert P Sterman, Deceased

Raymond E Troeger

The cooling insert for a movable vane in a jet engine is divided into plural overlapping forward and aft segregated members, each member being coolant fed through separate vane trunnion areas and each insert is of successively decreasing cross-sectional area. Problems of locally inadequate vane cooling, coolant match point movement, and unequal coolant supply pressures are addressed by the disclosed apparatus. Reuse of the trunnion supplied impingement cooling air for additional cooling functions is also disclosed.

Variable nozzle area turbine vane cooling

An improved blade tip with an abrasive coating is disclosed. The blade tip is included in a rotor blade which is rotatable with respect to a stationary surface. The tip has a contour which is effective for producing a normal loading component on the coating if the tip contacts the surface while rotating. In a specific form of the present invention, the tip comprises an end wall extending radially outwardly from the perimeter of the outer end of the rotor blade and a concave surface bounded by the end walls and extending radially inwardly therefrom.

Rotor blade tip

A replaceable tip cap for attachment to the end of a rotor blade. The tip cap includes a plurality of walls defining a compartment which, if desired, can be divided into a plurality of subcompartments. The tip cap can include inlet and outlet holes in walls thereof to permit fluid communication of a cooling fluid therethrough. Abrasive material can be attached with the radially outer wall of the tip cap.

Tip cap for a rotor blade

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

William K Koffel