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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2011
Applicant:
Jeffrey John Butkiewicz, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Inventor:
Jeffrey John Butkiewicz, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 11/00 (2006.01); F01D 5/08 (2006.01); F01D 5/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 5/08 (2013.01); F01D 5/081 (2013.01); F01D 5/22 (2013.01); F01D 11/008 (2013.01); F05D 2240/81 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49336 (2015.01);
Abstract
A turbine rotor disk includes a row of buckets secured about a radially outer periphery of the rotor disk, each bucket having an airfoil, a platform, a shank and a mounting portion, the mounting portion received in a radial slot formed in the rotor disk such that adjacent buckets in adjacent radial slots are separated by a rotor disk post located between adjacent mounting portions and a shank cavity between adjacent shanks, radially outward of the rotor disk post and radially inward of adjacent platforms. The shank cavity is substantially filled with at least one discrete thermal plug.