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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:
Aug. 30, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Albert J Partington, Winter Springs, FL (US);
Anthony Hodgson, Charlotte, NC (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4161 / ; 4162 / ; 416221 ; 416500 ;
Abstract
A steam turbine of the type employing axial entry blades is provided with a plurality of generally tangentially oriented slots in the rotor steeples. Resilient, deformable pins are driven into the slots under the blade platforms so as to urge the blade roots radially outward.