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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2010
Seth Alexander Mcdonald, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William James Strock, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Courtney James Tudor, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William Howard Hasting, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Frank Worthoff, West Chester, OH (US);
Seth Alexander McDonald, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William James Strock, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Courtney James Tudor, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William Howard Hasting, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Frank Worthoff, West Chester, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A vane includes a composite airfoil having chordwise spaced apart forward and aft dovetail feet at or near leading and trailing edges of the airfoil. Each foot includes a shank connecting a dovetail root to an airfoil base and each root is slidably received in a dovetail slot in an inner vane mount. The dovetail slot has a triangular slot cross section and a flat slot bottom and flat slot pressure and suction side crush faces corresponding to pressure and suction sides of the airfoil. The dovetail root having a triangular root cross section and a flat root bottom and flat dovetail root pressure and suction side crush faces. A biasing means urges the root bottom of the dovetail roots away from the slot bottom and presses and preloads the dovetail root pressure and suction side crush faces against the slot pressure and suction side slot crush faces.