System for retaining blades in a rotor
View Patent ↗The rotor disk carries an axial retention plate facing slots having blade roots received therein, the disk and the plate are shaped so as to define outer circumferential interlock and inner circumferential interlock.
1. A rotor comprising a disk provided with slots in its outer periphery, blades attached to said disk, each blade having a blade root engaged and retained in such a slot, and an annular axial retention plate fastened to the upstream side of said disk in register with open ends of said slots, said disk and said plate being shaped to define an outer circumferential interlock extending radially outside said open ends, and an inner circumferential interlock extending radially inside said open ends,
wherein said disk includes, between said slots, teeth of said outer circumferential interlock that project upstream externally relative to said open ends, and wherein grooves are formed in said teeth, which grooves are open in the inside faces of the teeth.
2. A rotor according to claim 1 , wherein said disk includes an annular flange projecting upstream internally relative to said open ends, and crenellated in order to define circumferentially distributed teeth forming part of said inner circumferential interlock.
3. A rotor according to claim 2 , wherein said retention plate includes an upstream flange extending radially outwards, adjacent to said annular flange of said disk and fastened thereto.
4. A rotor according to claim 1 , wherein said retention plate has two series of teeth that are circumferentially distributed, respectively at the outer periphery and at the inner periphery of an annular web placed facing said open ends of said slots, the two series of teeth respectively forming part of said outer circumferential interlock and part of said inner circumferential interlock.
5. A rotor according to claim 4 , wherein said annular web is deformable, and wherein axial clearance is defined on assembly between the co-operating teeth of an above-specified interlock, to enable said web to deform before said co-operating teeth come into contact.
6. A rotor according to claim 5 , wherein said axial clearance is defined between the co-operating teeth of said outer interlock.
7. A rotor according to claim 4 , wherein the co-operating teeth of said outer and inner interlocks are circumferentially offset.
8. A rotor according to claim 1 , wherein an elastically-deformable spacer is inserted between each blade root and the bottom of the corresponding slot.
9. An airplane turbojet fan, comprising a rotor according to claim 1 .
10. An airplane turbojet, including a fan having a rotor according to claim 1 .