IP Library Granted Patent US 9,551,235
Granted Patent B2
US 9,551,235 · App. 13/912,383 · Granted Jan 24, 2017

Axial-flow machine

Inventors: Alexander Anatolievich Khanin (Moscow, RU); Andrei Vladimirovich Pipopulo (Moscow, RU)
Assignee: General Electric Company
F01D25/00F01D5/081F01D5/323F01D11/008
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Patent No.
US 9,551,235
App. No.
13/912,383
Granted
Jan 24, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to an axial flow machine, in particular a gas turbine with axial hot gas flow. Gaps between rotor-side heat shields are blocked by easily mountable sealing strips, which are arranged with their longitudinal edges in opposing grooves in the side walls of the respective gap.

Claims (20)

1. An axial flow machine, comprising:

rotor-side rotor blades wherein each rotor-side rotor blade comprises a root and a base;

stator-side guide vanes,

wherein the rotor blades are secured to a rotor shaft, the roots positively engaging in correspondingly undercut axial channels in a rotor shaft, wherein the bases are formed as heat shields of the rotor shaft and have cavities which communicate with one another and with a source of cooling air, and wherein there is a gap between adjacent bases of adjacent rotor blades in a circumferential direction of the rotor shaft, the gap communicating with the cavities wherein the gap extends between the bases transversely to the circumferential direction on each side of a parting plane which forms a center of the gap, wherein

the gap is sealed on a gas flow side by flat-strip type sealing strips, which are arranged with their longitudinal edges in opposing grooves in side faces of the bases which are facing the parting plane; and

a further sealing strip arranged at at least one end face of the adjacent bases at edges of the side faces of the bases which extend in a radial direction of the rotor shaft,

wherein the further sealing strip is curved about an axis perpendicular to a longitudinal plane of the sealing strip and is arranged in a corresponding curved groove in the side faces of the bases.

2. An axial flow machine according to claim 1 , comprising:

a first sealing strip arranged at the edges of the side faces on the gas flow side extending in the axial direction of the rotor shaft.

3. An axial flow machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the further sealing strip is arranged in the at least one end face of the bases facing the flow direction (H).

4. An axial flow machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the curved grooves are, at their radially inner ends in relation to the rotor axis, open to an adjacent end face of the bases.

5. An axial flow machine according to one of claim 1 ,

wherein a recess is provided in the further sealing strip in the region of the parting plane of the gap for a flat tool which can be inserted into the gap, the sealing strip being displaceable longitudinally in the respective grooves by the tool.

6. An axial flow machine according to claim 5 ,

wherein the further sealing strip is composed of two layers whereby a slot is provided in one of the layers for forming the recess.

7. An axial flow machine according to claim 1 ,

comprising:

a rotary sliding member configured to axially lock the root of a rotor blade to the rotor shaft, and cover open radially inner ends of the curved grooves which receive the further sealing strip.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 17, 2016
From: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
To: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
Reel/Frame 039714/0578 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 31, 2013
From: KHANIN, ALEXANDER ANATOLIEVICH; PIPOPULO, ANDREI VLADIMIROVICH
To: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
Reel/Frame 030913/0461 →
Continuity (1)
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