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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2013
Rolls-royce Plc, London, GB;
Stephen Jonathan Dimelow, Uttoxeter, GB;
ROLLS-ROYCE PLC, London, GB;
Abstract
A rotor assembly includes a rotor disc and a plurality of circumferentially-spaced, radially outwardly extending rotor blades. The rotor disc has a rim and a plurality of circumferentially spaced slots provided in the rim of the rotor disc, each rotor blade having a root, the root of each rotor blade being arranged in a corresponding one of the slots in the rim of the rotor disc, and at least one of the slots having a chocking device accommodated within a space between a radially outer surface of the slot and a radially inner surface of the root of the rotor blade. The chocking device includes at least a first spring and a second spring, the first and second springs each abutting a radially inner surface of the root of the corresponding rotor blade and arranged transversely relative to a longitudinal axis of the slot.