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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 1978
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jacques E Albaric, Monroeville, PA (US);
Little P Curtis, Monroeville, PA (US);
George F Dailey, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
310 54 ; 310 61 ; 277-3 ; 277 59 ;
Abstract
A discharge chamber seal arrangement for a water cooled turbine generator rotor. The discharge chamber seal arrangement comprises a gland seal operable during high speed operation of the rotor and a contact seal operable during low rotor speed and at standstill. Helical grooves located on the inside diameter of the gland seal develops an axial pressure gradient in the fluid annulus surrounding the shaft to reduce the leakage flow at speed through the gland seal. The helical grooves apply a pumping action which opposes the leakage flow.