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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1994
Philip F Stec, Medford, MA (US);
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
An improved, highly stable blade-to-blade vibration damper configuration which provides substantially continuous blade vibration damping and sealing of an interplatform gap due to positional stability thereof. Disposed in a subplatform cavity, the damper is comprised of a generally triangular shaped body having a vertex thereof aligned with the interplatform gap. A primary damper load face abuts a first inclined platform load face and a secondary damper load face abuts a second inclined platform load face. Maintenance of sliding planar contact between primary and first load faces and sliding linear contact between secondary and second load faces is afforded by orienting inclined platform faces to have an included angle greater than that of the damper vertex and offsetting a damper center of gravity toward the primary load face. The damper may include one or more legs to orient the damper in the cavity and one or more extending tabs to discourage hot gas flow thereby. In a preferred embodiment, the damper is utilized as an as-cast member, without the need for additional processing or machining, and the vertex included angle is greater than about 90 degrees.