IP Library Granted Patent US 8,602,726
Granted Patent B2
US 8,602,726 · App. 12/922,460 · Granted Dec 10, 2013

Sectored distributor for turbomachine

Inventors: Christian Bernard Bariaud (Orsay, FR); Sebastien Digard Brou De Cuissart (Paris, FR); Eric Rene Herzer (Houilles, FR); Bruno Marie Benjamin Jacques Richard (Chanteloup les Vignes, FR)
Assignee: SNECMA
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Patent No.
US 8,602,726
App. No.
12/922,460
Granted
Dec 10, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a sectored distributor ( 112 ) for a turbomachine, including two coaxial platforms mutually connected by radial blades, the inner platform ( 130 ) being connected to an annular partition ( 138 ) for suspending an annular mounting ( 140 ) carrying elements ( 136 ) made of material subject to abrasion, this mounting sliding circumferentially on the partition and comprising a means engaging with means corresponding to the inner periphery of the partition to ensure radial restraint of the mounting on this partition.

Claims (15)

1. A sectored distributor for a turbomachine, formed of segments comprising:

two coaxial annular platforms, respectively inner and outer, connected together by substantially radial blades, the inner platform being integral with a substantially radial annular partition carrying members made of abradable material,

wherein the members made of abradable material are fixed on a sectored annular mounting that comprises an annular groove exiting radially towards the exterior and is engaged and retained in the radial direction the inner periphery of the annular partition, each mounting segment comprising at one of its circumferential ends an opening for engaging and mounting on the annular partition of one or plural distributor segments, the mounting being carried out by displacing in the circumferential direction the mounting segment on the partition, and each mounting segment comprising at the other of its circumferential ends means forming a stop in the circumferential direction and engaging with the annular partition of one of the distributor segments to provide for the restraining in one direction in the circumferential direction of the annular partition in relation to the mounting segment.

2. A sectored distributor according to claim 1 , wherein the mounting is in a form of a rail and is made from sheet metal.

3. A sectored distributor according to claim 2 , wherein the mounting has a U- or C-shaped section of which the opening is oriented radially towards the exterior, the mounting comprising two substantially radial annular wings, respectively upstream and downstream, connected together at their inner peripheries by an inner cylindrical mounting wall of the members made of abradable material.

4. A sectored distributor according to claim 3 , wherein annular deflectors made of sheet metal are fixed, or brazed, on the wings of the mounting.

5. A sectored distributor according to claim 3 , wherein each wing of the mounting is folded at its outer periphery to form a substantially cylindrical outer wall extending axially towards the opposite wing, the outer walls defining between them the annular groove of passage of the annular partition of a distributor segment.

6. A sectored distributor according to claim 5 , wherein each outer wall of the mounting is folded on the side of the annular partition to form an annular edge extending substantially radially towards the interior, the two annular edges being substantially parallel together and to the annular partition.

7. A sectored distributor according to claim 5 , wherein, in mounting position, the inner periphery of the partition is clamped between the outer walls or between the annular edges of the mounting.

8. A sectored distributor according to claim 5 , wherein, in mounting position, the inner periphery of the partition is radially clamped between the outer walls or the annular edges of the mounting and the inner wall of the mounting.

9. A sectored distributor according to claim 5 , wherein the partition comprises at its inner periphery circumferential shoulders forming a stop in the radial direction, the shoulders being housed between the wings of the mounting and engaging with outer walls or annular edges of the mounting to provide the radial restraining of the mounting on the partition.

10. A sectored distributor according to claim 1 , wherein a number of mounting segments is less than a number of distributor segments.

11. A sectored distributor according to claim 1 , wherein each mounting segment extends in the circumferential direction over an angular area corresponding to plural distributor segments.

12. A turbomachine low-pressure turbine, comprising at least one sectored distributor according to claim 1 .

13. A turbomachine, or a turbojet, or a turboprop engine, comprising at least one sectored distributor according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 28, 2010
From: BARIAUD, CHRISTIAN; DIGARD BROU DE CUISSART, SEBASTIEN; HERZER, ERIC; RICHARD, BRUNO
To: SNECMA
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Priority Claims (1)
FR 08 01499 · Mar 19, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20110052380A1 · Mar 3, 2011