Mounting tubes for pressurizing an internal enclosure in a turbomachine
View Patent ↗A turbomachine comprising high- and low-pressure compressor shafts guided in bearings isolated from an internal enclosure by a sealing end plate, and radial pressurization tubes connecting the enclosure to an air passage passing through the intermediate casing, the ends of these tubes being engaged in sealed manner in radial ducts of the intermediate casing and in radial chimneys of the sealing end plate, the chimneys being of a length is sufficient to enable the ends of the tubes to be moved in translation therein between a service position and a mounting position for the tubes.
1. A turbomachine compressor module comprising:
a low-pressure compressor and a high-pressure compressor having shafts that are guided in bearings that are isolated from an internal enclosure containing the compressor shafts by labyrinth seals mounted on a sealing end plate carried by an intermediate casing; and
radial tubes for pressurizing the internal enclosure, connecting said enclosure to a compressed air passage passing through the intermediate casing, the ends of these radial tubes being engaged in sealed manner in radial ducts of the intermediate casing and in radial chimneys of the sealing end plate, means being provided to hold the ends of the radial tubes stationary in the radial ducts of the intermediate casing,
wherein the radial chimneys of the sealing end plate are of radial size or length that is sufficient to enable the radially inner ends of the radial tubes to be moved therein in translation between a service position in which the radially outer ends of the radial tubes are mounted in sealed manner in the radial ducts of the intermediate casing, and a mounting position in which the radially outer ends of the radial tubes are not in the radial ducts of the intermediate casing.
2. The turbomachine compressor module according to claim 1 , wherein the radial chimneys of the sealing end plate include means that limit the movement in translation of the ends of the radial tubes towards the axis of the turbomachine.
3. The turbomachine compressor module according to claim 2 , wherein each radial chimney of the sealing end plate includes at its radially inner end a narrowing that prevents the end of a tube from passing through.
4. The turbomachine compressor module according to claim 3 , wherein the narrowing in each radial chimney of the sealing end plate defines the mounting position of the tube.
5. The turbomachine compressor module according to claim 1 , wherein the ends of the radial tubes carry sealing rings that are movable in sliding within the radial ducts of the intermediate casing and within the radial chimneys of the sealing end plate.
6. The turbomachine compressor module according to claim 5 , wherein the radially outer ends of the chimneys of the sealing end plate include respective chamfers.
7. The turbomachine compressor module according to claim 1 , wherein the radially outer ends of the radial tubes include respective annular collars for bearing against the ends of the radial ducts of the intermediate casing in the service position of the radial tubes and held in this position by means of annular flanges fastened to the intermediate casing around the radial tubes.
8. An end plate for sealing an internal enclosure of the turbomachine compressor module according to claim 1 ,
wherein the end plate includes radial chimneys for mounting tubes for pressurizing the internal enclosure, and
wherein the radially inner ends of the radial chimneys include respective narrowings.
9. A turbomachine, comprising a turbomachine compressor module according to claim 1 .
10. The turbomachine of claim 9 , wherein the turbomachine is an airplane turboprop or turbojet.