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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
May. 04, 2018
Applicant:
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Inventors:
Anthony G. Ruglio, Rocky Hill, CT (US);
George H. Reynolds, Sanford, ME (US);
Gerard V. Cadieux, Manchester, CT (US);
George Kenneth Spencer, Guntersville, AL (US);
Assignee:
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 3/02 (2006.01); B08B 3/08 (2006.01); B08B 7/00 (2006.01); F04D 29/70 (2006.01); F04D 29/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F04D 29/703 (2013.01); B08B 3/022 (2013.01); B08B 3/024 (2013.01); B08B 3/08 (2013.01); B08B 7/0092 (2013.01); F04D 29/023 (2013.01); B08B 2203/0223 (2013.01); B08B 2220/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for stripping a coating off of a blade includes discharging liquid nitrogen through a nozzle onto the blade at a coating to cause lifting of the coating from a substrate of the blade and traversing the nozzle along the blade to cause peeling of the coating off of the substrate of the blade as the nozzle traverses the blade.