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Title:
LOW STRESS CIRCUMFERENTIAL DOVETAIL ATTACHING DEVICE FOR ROTOR BLADE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2010270754
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a retaining system for a circumferential entry type rotor dovetail, inserted into a dovetail slot in a rotor.

A plurality of rotor blade dovetails 118 are circumferentially slidable into and along the dovetail slot 110, with each rotor blade dovetail having a neck 120 and a pair of oppositely oriented lobes 122. A plurality of rail segments 126 are circumferentially slid into channels in the dovetail slot between the dovetail lobes and the respective disk hoops 106, 108. The rail segments define a first pressure face 138 that engages with an outward pressure face of the dovetail lobes, and a second pressure face 140 that engages with an inward pressure face of the respective disk hoop component.


Inventors:
WILSON IAN DAVID
BLACK KENNETH DAMON
CARTER BRADLEY SCOTT
Application Number:
JP2010114854A
Publication Date:
December 02, 2010
Filing Date:
May 19, 2010
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
GEN ELECTRIC
International Classes:
F01D5/30; F01D5/02
Foreign References:
DE932042C1955-08-22
US0003004A1843-03-17
DE932042C1955-08-22
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Arakawa Satoshi
Hirokazu Ogura
Toshihisa Kurokawa