IP Library Granted Patent US 7,370,477
Granted Patent B2
US 7,370,477 · App. 11/113,101 · Granted May 13, 2008

Device for fastening a fluid duct to a turbojet casing

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Patent No.
US 7,370,477
App. No.
11/113,101
Granted
May 13, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device for fastening a fluid duct such as a fuel duct in an orifice of a turbojet casing, the device comprising a ring screwed into the orifice of the casing and having an annular rim coming to bear against a washer at the end of the duct, and a nut screwed onto the end of the duct so as to clamp the annular rim of the ring against the washer of the duct in order to fasten the duct to the casing.

Claims (24)

1. A device for fastening a fluid duct in an orifice of a turbojet casing, the device comprising a ring screwed into the orifice of the casing and having one end that comes to bear against abutment means fitted to the duct, and a nut screwed onto the end of the duct so as to clamp the ring against the abutment means of the duct in order to fasten the duct, to the casing.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the abutment means of the duct comprise a washer engaged on the end of the duct and coming to bear on a shoulder of said duct.

3. The device according to claim 2 , wherein the washer has a frustoconical central orifice engaged on a corresponding frustoconical surface of the duct.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said ring is screwed into the orifice of the casing from the outside of the casing and has an inner end abutted against the abutment means of the duct.

5. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the nut is configured to be screwed on the end of the duct from outside the casing.

6. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the nut is configured to be screwed onto the end of the duct inside the ring and has an outside diameter smaller than the inside diameter of the ring.

7. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the nut has its inner end coming to bear against an inner annular rim of the ring.

8. The device according to claim 7 , wherein the inner annular rim is formed at the inner end of the ring.

9. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the outer end of the ring has an outwardly-directed annular rim abutted against the casing around the orifice in an installed position.

10. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the threaded portion of the orifice into which the ring is screwed is formed by a bushing engaged in the orifice of the casing and held by axial abutment in said orifice.

11. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the ring has an outside thread with a left-hand pitch and the nut has an inside thread with a right-hand pitch.

12. The device according to claim 2 , wherein said washer is held in a cage forming the inner end of the ring.

13. The device according to claim 1 , further comprising a wire engaged in corresponding end holes of the ring and the nut.

14. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the end of the duct includes an axial orifice configured to pass fluid and that includes a section that is not circular, the section being configured to receive a tool configured to lock the duct relative to the casing while the nut is being tightened.

15. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the nut includes a first internal bore with threading and a second internal bore without threading, and an internal diameter of the second internal bore is greater than an internal diameter of the first internal bore.

16. The device according to claim 15 , wherein the duct extends within both the first internal bore and the second internal bore.

17. The device according to claim 16 , wherein a gap separates the duct from a wall of the second internal bore.

18. A turbojet comprising:

a casing including an orifice;

a fuel-feed duct disposed in the orifice and including an external first thread;

a nut disposed within the orifice around the fuel-feed duct and including an internal second thread mated to the first thread;

a ring disposed within the orifice, abutting a portion of the casing, and further abutting the nut, the ring overlapping the duct in a radial direction and disposed outward of the duct in the radial direction, the ring including an external third thread;

a threaded bushing disposed between the ring and a wall of the casing and including a fourth thread mated to the third thread;

a washer disposed around the duct and sandwiched, in an axial direction, between the duct and the ring.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE COVER SHEET TO REMOVE APPLICATION NOS. 10250419, 10786507, 10786409, 12416418, 12531115, 12996294, 12094637 12416422 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 046479 FRAME 0807. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Aug 24, 2018
From: SNECMA
To: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Reel/Frame 046939/0336 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 23, 2018
From: SNECMA
To: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Reel/Frame 046479/0807 →