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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2002
Edward Lee Howard, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Gilbert Farmer, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James Hollice Poynter, Hamilton, OH (US);
Ronald Lee Sheranko, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John Robert Staker, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Thomas Carl Mills, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Gregory Thomas Lucas, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Edward Lee Howard, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Gilbert Farmer, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James Hollice Poynter, Hamilton, OH (US);
Ronald Lee Sheranko, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John Robert Staker, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Thomas Carl Mills, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Gregory Thomas Lucas, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of fabricating a test model of a gas turbine engine combustor dome, and the test model produced thereby. The method entails individually stamping a plurality of dome wall segments and first and second mounting band segments. Each wall segment comprises at least one cup between radially inward and outward edges of the wall segment, and an opening in the cup. At least one wall segment and its two corresponding mounting band segments are placed on a fixture that locates the opening of the wall segment, locates the first and second mounting band segments at the radially-inward and outward edges of the wall segment, and orients the wall segment to establish a dome angle of the fixtured dome assembly. The wall segment and mounting band segments are then joined while the fixtured dome assembly remains on the fixture to form at least a unitary sector of the test model.