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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2006
Honza Stastny, Georgetown, CA;
Jeffrey Richard Verhiel, Toronto, CA;
Honza Stastny, Georgetown, CA;
Jeffrey Richard Verhiel, Toronto, CA;
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Abstract
A combustor for a gas turbine engine having an inner combustor wall and an outer combustor wall with a number of heat shields mounted internally thereto with fasteners. Each combustor wall has an end wall defining a combustor dome with a number of: fuel nozzle openings; impingement air openings; and heat shield fastener openings. Each of the end walls has an overlapping portion with mutually engaging sealing surfaces with the openings within the overlapping portions being aligned in overlapping pairs, where an exterior overlapping portion has at least one of the aligned openings of one overlapping pair being of larger dimension than the aligned opening in an interior overlapping portion.