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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2004
Erhard Kreis, Otelfingen, CH;
Markus Oehl, Waldshut-Tiengen, DE;
Ulrich Rathmann, Baden, CH;
Alstom Technology Ltd., Baden, CH;
Abstract
A seal arrangement for reducing the seal gaps within a rotary flow machine, preferably an axial turbomachine, has rotor blades and guide vanes, which are respectively arranged in at least one rotor blade row and guide vane row and have respective blade/vane roots () which protrude into fastening contours within the rotor blade and guide vane rows. A sealing element () of plastically deformable material is provided between at least two adjacent blade/vane roots () along a rotor blade row or guide vane row or between a blade/vane root () of a rotor blade or guide vane and a rotary flow machine component directly adjoining the blade/vane root.