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Device for fixing turbine blades and for eliminating rotor balance errors in axially flow-through compressors or turbines of gas turbine drives

US5584659A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 29, 1995
Grant dateDec 17, 1996
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Expiry dateAug 29, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF04D29/662
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In the device, the turbine blades are anchored with blade feet, which are profiled like teeth, to correspondingly shaped axial grooves of a wheel disk. An axial gap is left between each blade foot end and the base of an axial groove, in which gap a securing element is disposed. The securing element can be bent on both ends, which protrude out from the gap, directed opposite each other against faces of the wheel disk and a blade foot, and is clamped in a wedged manner in the relevant axial gap between the groove base and the blade foot. The securing element bridges over a recess, which is formed in the blade foot to receive a balancing mass.

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