Method of manufacturing a turbomachine component that includes cooling air discharge orifices
View Patent ↗A method of producing cooling fluid discharge orifices in the wall of a part manufactured by the technique of lost wax casting in which a pattern of the part is produced in a wax mold, the orifices each having a first portion emerging at the external surface of the wall is disclosed. The method includes making cavities in the wax pattern that correspond to the first portions of said orifices of the part. Thus, it is possible to produce cooling air discharge orifices without sharp edges.
1. A method of producing cooling fluid discharge orifices in a wall of a part manufactured by lost wax casting in which a pattern of the part is produced in a wax mold, the orifices each having a first portion emerging at an external surface of the wall, wherein the part is a turbomachine component, which method comprising:
making cavities in the wax pattern that correspond to the first portions of said orifices on the external surface of the wall of the part;
casting the part by lost wax casting thereby forming the first portions of the orifices on the external wall of the part such that the first portions of the orifices are not in communication with an internal surface of the wall; and
machining, in the part as cast, a second orifice portion that brings a bottom of the first orifice portion into communication with the internal surface of the wall.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein protuberances with a shape complementary to that of said first portions are made in the wax mold in such a way that the pattern includes said cavities and the part as cast includes said first portions of the orifices.
3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the cavities corresponding to said first portions of the orifices are of flared shape.
4. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the protuberances are radiused.
5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein joining regions, at least partly, provided in the cavities corresponding to said first portions of the orifices, are radiused.
6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the joining region between side walls of the cavities corresponding to said first portions of the orifices and an external surface of the pattern is radiused.
7. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a radius or radii of curvature of radiused surfaces is or are at least 0.1 mm, the radius of curvature along the profile of the radius surfaces being progressive.
8. The method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the radius or radii of curvature of the radiused surfaces is or are 0.2 mm.
9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second orifice portion is of tubular shape.
10. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the machining is carried out by a laser beam or EDM.
11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the bottom of the first orifice portion is substantially trapezoidal when viewed from above.