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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2002
Jan Christopher Schilling, Middletown, OH (US);
Thomas George Wakeman, Reading, OH (US);
Steward Joseph Cline, Guilford, IN (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method enables a variable vane assembly for a gas turbine engine to be coupled to an engine casing. The variable vane assembly includes a bushing assembly and at least one variable vane that includes a platform and a vane stem. The method comprises coupling a first bushing to the engine casing in a press fit, coupling a second bushing to the variable vane, and coupling the variable vane to the engine casing such that at least a portion of the first bushing is between the engine casing and the second bushing, and such that at least a portion of the second bushing is between the first bushing and the vane stem.