Device for controlling variable-pitch vanes in a turbomachine
View Patent ↗A device for controlling variable-pitch vanes in a turbomachine comprises links connecting the radial pivots of the vanes to radial fingers carried by semicircular elements and bridges of a control ring, the links being mounted in ball-and-socket manner on the radial fingers which are fixed to the control ring. This form of mounting enables all the vanes associated with the control ring to be set to the same angular pitch.
1. A device for controlling variable-pitch vanes in a turbomachine, the vanes having radial pivots mounted in bearings in a casing and connected by links to a control ring surrounding the outside of the casing, said ring comprising two substantially semicircular elements rigidly interconnected at their ends by bridges disposed astride longitudinal flanges of the casing, wherein the links are pivotally mounted on the ends of radial fingers carried by the semicircular elements and by the bridges of the control ring, and wherein the fingers carried by the semicircular elements extend radially outwards from said elements, and the fingers carried by the bridges extend radially inwards from said bridges so that the pivot points of the links on said fingers are at the same distance from the pivot axis of the control ring both for the radial fingers carried by the semicircular elements and for the radial fingers carried by the bridges of the control ring.
2. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the links are mounted in ball-and-socket manner on the radial fingers.
3. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the radial fingers are mounted in radial cylindrical housings of the semicircular elements and of the bridges, and they are held therein by angled tabs fixed by screws to said elements and bridges and co-operating with the ends of the fingers on which the links are mounted.
4. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the radial fingers are crimped at their ends remote from the links in cylindrical housings of the semicircular elements and of the bridges of the control ring.
5. A device according to claim 4 , wherein means for retaining the links are mounted on the radial fingers.
6. A device according to claim 5 , wherein the retaining means comprise U-shaped pieces having flanges with orifices for passing the radial fingers and located on either side of respective collars on the radial fingers.