Patent · US Expired

Self-actuating rotor seal

US4464096A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 1, 1979
Grant dateAug 7, 1984
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Expiry dateNov 1, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF01D5/3038
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A rim seal for blocking the leakage of working medium gases between an array of rotor blades and a rotor disk is disclosed. Various construction details which provide positive contact between the seal and the disk are developed. The rim seal of the present invention is of the ladder-type having application to a disk adapted by a circumferential groove to receive the rotor blades.

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