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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1982
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1979
George W Beal, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
James R Grant, Jr, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Kurt J Hanloser, Lake Park, FL (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
An afterburner on a turbofan engine includes a flameholder means having an annular flameholder gutter positioned downstream of a first exhaust means of a core engine while said flameholder means also includes a plurality of radial gutter sections extending radially outward towards an outer wall of said afterburner and downstream of a second annular exhaust means of a bypass duct around said core engine; a plurality of said radial gutter sections having a manifold extending along the forward portion thereof, each manifold having an inlet at its inward end located downstream of said first exhaust means with said manifold directing a hot exhaust flow from said inlet to openings on each side of its associated radial gutter section in a portion downstream of said second annular exhaust means.