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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1992
Mark F Zelesky, Coventry, CT (US);
Samuel R Miller, Jr, Port St. Lucie, FL (US);
William L Plank, Tequesta, FL (US);
Thomas A Auxier, Lake Park, FL (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
An air cooled gas engine turbine blade that includes a plurality of longitudinally spaced cavities adjacent the leading edge of the blade is designed to include angularly disposed impingement passages flowing cooling air into each of the cavities in a direction extending from the root to the tip of the blade and including an annular projection upstream of the impingement passage but adjacent thereto for directing air into the respective cavities with total instead of static pressure. The impingement holes are oriented to align with the film cool holes in the blade surface at the leading edge. Ribs formed between cavities are also oriented to be parallel to the impingement holes.