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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2015
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Sandra Beverly Kolvick, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Kevin Leon Bruce, Greer, SC (US);
Matthew Ryan Ferslew, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Stuart Craig Hanson, Anderson, SC (US);
Thomas Michael Merlau, Greenville, SC (US);
Joshua Michael Oden, Greenville, SC (US);
Christopher Michael Penny, Greer, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A fixture and method for installing turbine buckets is disclosed. The fixture is adapted for mounting a plurality of turbine buckets with dovetails to a rotor wheel of a turbomachine that is separated from an adjacent rotor wheel by a spacer wheel, the rotor wheel and the spacer wheel each having a plurality of circumferentially aligned dovetail slots, the fixture includes: a turbine bucket holder having a dovetail that is configured to engage with one of the dovetail slots of the spacer wheel. The profile of a bucket holder dovetail slot substantially aligns the dovetail of the turbine bucket with a dovetail slot of the rotor wheel for at least partial transfer of a turbine bucket thereto.