Engine transportation apparatus
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsCarl Lawrence MacMahon, James Eugene Dingle
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Abstract
An apparatus and method of transporting a turbine engine with a transportation fixture including a turbine engine jig having mounts for securing the turbine engine, a rotor with a drive shaft rotationally supported by a bearing, the method includes supplying a lubricant to the bearing and rotating the drive shaft while the turbine engine is in transport.
Claims14
A method of transporting a turbine engine having a rotor with a drive shaft rotationally supported by a bearing, the method comprising supplying a lubricant to the bearing and rotating the drive shaft at a predetermined speed while the turbine engine is in transport.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.