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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1994
Robert E Seeley, Broadalbin, NY (US);
Raymond J Jones, Duanesburg, NY (US);
Carl L De Cesare, Schenectady, NY (US);
James H Vogan, Schenectady, NY (US);
Joseph H Stocks, III, Scotia, NY (US);
Carlos E Silva, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
In a steam turbine rotor wheel and bucket dovetail joint construction wherein the wheel dovetail includes three radially aligned hooks each interconnected by a neck having an upper and lower fillet, an improvement includes redesigned fillet radii which, in a first embodiment, include the upper fillet having a radius greater than the lower fillet radius. In certain embodiments, the upper fillet may have a radius twice that of the lower fillet. In other embodiments, the radii in both the upper and lower fillets have been enlarged.