Combustion chamber comprising chamber end wall heat shielding deflectors and gas turbine engine equipped therewith
View Patent ↗An annular combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The combustion chamber includes an external wall, an internal wall, a chamber end wall connecting these two walls and provided with openings for the fuel injection systems, and heat shielding deflectors fixed to the chamber end wall. The deflectors include a flat wall portion with an opening centered on said openings for the fuel injection systems, two longitudinal edges, and two transverse edges. Along one of the longitudinal edges, the deflector includes a tongue forming a joint cover, creating a housing along the edge for the edge of the adjacent deflector so as to seal the join between the two adjacent edges of the two deflectors. The tongue is spaced away from the chamber end wall so as to create a space supplied with cooling air via orifices in the chamber end wall.
1. An annular combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine comprising:
an external wall;
an internal wall;
a chamber end wall connecting the external and internal walls, the chamber end wall being provided with openings for fuel injection systems; and
heat shielding deflectors being fixed to the chamber end wall, each of the deflectors comprising a flat wall portion with an opening centered on said openings for the fuel injection systems, first and second longitudinal edges, and first and second transverse edges, the opening is bordered by a flange extending in an upstream direction,
wherein the deflector includes a tongue along the first longitudinal edge from the first transverse edge to the second transverse edge, the tongue extending in a circumferential direction and forming a joint cover so as to create a housing along said first longitudinal edge for a second longitudinal edge of an adjacent deflector so as to seal the joint cover between the two adjacent longitudinal edges of the two deflectors,
wherein the flange includes a shoulder with an upstream face which abuts against a downstream face of the chamber end wall and a free end of the flange extending in the upstream direction which passes through the openings in the chamber end wall such that said tongue is spaced away from the chamber end wall so as to create a space supplied with cooling air via orifices in the chamber end wall.
2. The combustion chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the housing is formed by a discontinuity of the flat wall portion.
3. The combustion chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the transverse edges of the deflectors comprise a curved wall portion, the housing also being created along the longitudinal edges of said curved portion.
4. The combustion chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the deflectors comprise the joint cover along the first longitudinal edge and an edge without a joint cover along the second longitudinal edge, the two edges complementing one another so as to fit onto an edge of another like deflector positioned edge to edge with it.
5. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a proportion of the deflectors comprises the joint cover along both longitudinal edges.
6. A combustion chamber of which a proportion of the deflectors comprises two longitudinal edges that complement the joint covers of the deflectors as claimed in claim 1 .
7. A gas turbine engine comprising a combustion chamber as claimed in claim 1 .
8. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a clip is provided on an upstream face of the chamber end wall, the clip cooperating with the shoulder to form a clamp.