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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2001
John Herman Mueller, Hamilton, OH (US);
Mark Leonard Vossman, Mason, OH (US);
William Ralph Maskiell, Batavia, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A heat shield and support strut for a turbine engine afterburner. The heat shield can be replaced without moving or disconnecting the fuel tube. The heat shield includes a housing that may be telescoped over the fuel injection tube and is attachable to the strut without moving the housing transverse to a longitudinal axis of the fuel injection tube. The support strut includes a body having an outer end for attachment to an outer wall of the afterburner section, an inner end, and a passage extending through the body from its outer end to its inner end for receiving the fuel injection tube. The inner end has a cavity for receiving the head of the heat shield. The cavity is shaped for a close fit on the head in the cavity. The body has a flat mounting surface in the cavity for engagement by the flat mounting surface of the head.