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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2005
Christopher Walter Sullivan, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Robert James Bracken, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Rensselaer, NY (US);
Stephen Roger Swan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
David Orus Fitts, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Ronald Wayne Korzun, Clifton Park, NY (US);
John Thomas Murphy, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Christopher Walter Sullivan, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Robert James Bracken, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Rensselaer, NY (US);
Stephen Roger Swan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
David Orus Fitts, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Ronald Wayne Korzun, Clifton Park, NY (US);
John Thomas Murphy, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The steampath for a steam turbine includes stacked stator rings each mounting inwardly directed nozzles and stacked rotor wheels each mounting outwardly directed buckets mounting blades. By alternately stacking the stator rings and rotor wheels, the nozzles and buckets of the various stages are interdigitated to form a steampath. Each bucket includes a blade and a root received in a generally complementary shaped groove on a wheel.