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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2013
Rolls-royce Corporation, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Richard C. Uskert, Timonium, MD (US);
Joseph P. Lamusga, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Aaron D. Sippel, Zionsville, IN (US);
Rolls-Royce Corporation, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for controlling turbine blade tip clearance is disclosed herein. A blade track assembly can include a blade track carrier having a plurality of slots and rails defined by paths that vary in radial position as a function of circumferential location. An expansion ring can be operably coupled with the slots of the blade track carrier. A plurality of blade track segments can be operably coupled with the expansion ring and engageable with the rails of the blade track carrier such that expansion and contraction of the expansion ring causes radially outward movement and radially inward movement, respectively, of the blade track segments.