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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert J. Kildea, North Palm Beach, FL (US);
Herbert R. Voigt, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Assignee:
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16J 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16J 1/516 ;
Abstract
A seal for the aft end of a turbine blade and disk assembly of a gas turbine engine to prevent leakage of the cooling air whose main body and cross section are U-shaped that freely fits into a groove formed in the disk lug adjacent the rim of the disk on the aft side thereof. When rotating the center of the base of the U bears against the buttress of the platform of the blade and centrifugal force forces the sides of the U to deform to bear against the walls of the groove.