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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2010
Kevin Leon Bruce, Greer, SC (US);
Matthew Robert Piersall, Greenville, SC (US);
Kevin Leon Bruce, Greer, SC (US);
Matthew Robert Piersall, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine bucket is provided and includes a shank interconnectable with a rotor and formed to accommodate coolant therein and an airfoil blade coupled to a radially outward portion of the shank and including a body formed to define a substantially radially extending cooling hole therein, which is disposed to be solely receptive of the coolant accommodated within the shank for removing heat from the body, the cooling hole being further defined as having a substantially non-circular cross-sectional shape at a predefined radial position of the body.