Device for fixing a burner ring in an afterburner combustion chamber of a turbojet engine

1. A device for fixing a burner ring onto flameholder arms in a turbojet engine afterburner combustion chamber, the burner ring being formed of ring sectors placed more or less end to end, wherein facing ends of consecutive ring sectors are housed and guided between two circumferentially-directed roughly parallel plates of the flameholder arms and are immobilized between said plates by locking pieces engaged between said plates and between the facing ends of the ring sectors, said locking pieces being held between said plates by an immobilizing device engaged in aligned orifices in said plates and in said locking pieces.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each locking piece is made in one piece and of rounded overall shape.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1 or 2 , wherein each locking piece comprises two opposed faces, a radially inner face and a radially outer face respectively, which are engaged between flanges of the ring sectors and which are of a shape and curvature that correspond to those of the flanges of the ring sectors.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each locking piece comprises a through passage directed radially respectively with respect to the axis of the afterburner combustion chamber and housing a cylindrical rod having ends engaged in said orifices in the plates of the flameholder arm.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the ends of the rod lie flush with the surfaces of said plates which are situated on the opposite side to the locking piece.

6. The device as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising a mechanism configured to prevent translational movement of the rod in the through passage of the locking piece, said mechanism comprising a shoulder formed on the cylindrical surface of the rod and resting against the shoulder on the internal surface of the passage in the locking piece.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the shoulders of the rod and of the passage in the locking piece are off-centered or dissymmetric with respect to the axis of the rod and of the passage and form means for immobilizing the rod in terms of rotation in the passage.

8. The device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the rod comprises a housing to accommodate a pin, a first end of which is immobilized in terms of rotation and in terms of translation in said housing and the second end of which extends into said orifice in one of the plates of the flameholder arm and is held by a holding device provided on this plate.

9. The device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said holding device provided on the plate comprises a groove into which the second end of the pin is knocked over by plastic deformation.

10. The device as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the groove accommodating the knocked-over end of the pin is formed in the radially outer plate of the flameholder arm.

11. The device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the housing for the pin in the rod is L-shaped and has a radial passage accommodating the first end of the pin and a longitudinal slot connecting the radial passage to one end of the rod.

12. The device as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the longitudinal slot opens onto the end of the rod which is engaged in the orifice in the radially outer plate of the flameholder arm.

13. The device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein on assembly, the locking piece is engaged between the plates of the flameholder arm and between the ends of the ring sectors, the pin is placed in the housing of the rod, the rod bearing the pin is engaged in the through-passage in the locking piece and in the orifices in the plates, from inside the flameholder arm and radially from the inside outwards, after which the outer end of the pin is knocked over onto the radially outer plate of the flameholder arm.

14. The device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the rod is mounted with clearance in the through-passage in the locking piece and in the orifices in said plates.