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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2007
Robert James Bracken, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John C. Lavash, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Praveen Kumar Garlapati, Hyderabad, IN;
Robert James Bracken, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John C. Lavash, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Praveen Kumar Garlapati, Hyderabad, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A fully bladed closure design for a turbine wheel with tangential entry. A set of the final three buckets including a bladed closure bucket are disposed about a wheel margin with two buckets adjacent to the bladed closure bucket secured to the wheel margin by the dovetails. The closure bucket is secured to adjacent buckets by a combination of one or more retaining keys and to the margin by one or more retaining pins. The bladed closure bucket and the adjoining faces of the adjacent buckets have flat skirts providing suppport from the retaining keys across the full axial width of the bladed closure bucket and the adjacent buckets.