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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2003
Joseph D. Coughlan, Iii, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
Monica Pacheco-tougas, Manchester, CT (US);
James B. Hoke, Tolland, CT (US);
Alan J. Goetschius, Marlborough, CT (US);
Joseph D. Coughlan, III, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
Monica Pacheco-Tougas, Manchester, CT (US);
James B. Hoke, Tolland, CT (US);
Alan J. Goetschius, Marlborough, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine combustor has forward bulkhead extending between inboard and outboard walls and cooperating therewith to define a combustor interior volume or combustion chamber. At least one of the walls has an exterior shell and an interior shell including a number of panels. Each panel has interior and exterior surfaces and a perimeter having leading and trailing edges and first and second lateral edges. A number of cooling passageways have inlets on the panel exterior surface and outlets on the panel interior surface. A rail protrudes from the exterior surface and is recessed from the leading edge along a majority of the leading edge.