Reducing inter-seal gap in gas turbine
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorVictor John Morgan
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Abstract
A device for reducing inter-seal gap in gas turbines. Embodiments of a gas turbine with a first arcuate component adjacent to a second arcuate component; a first slot and a connected second slot on an end of the first arcuate component; a first seal disposed into the first slot and a first adjacent slot on the second arcuate component; a second seal disposed into the second slot and a second adjacent slot on the second arcuate component, leaving a gap between the first seal and the second seal; and a connector coupled to the first seal and the second seal and substantially covering the gap between the first seal and the second seal.
Claims20
A gas turbine, comprising:
- a first arcuate component adjacent to a second arcuate component;
- a first slot and a connected second slot on an end of the first arcuate component;
- a first seal disposed into the first slot and a first adjacent slot on the second arcuate component;
- a second seal disposed into the second slot and a second adjacent slot on the second arcuate component, leaving a gap between the first seal and the second seal;
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- a connector coupled to the first seal and the second seal and substantially covering the gap between the first seal and the second seal.
A gas turbine, comprising:
- a turbine including at least one annular arrangement of arcuate components;
- a first arcuate component adjacent to a second arcuate component, wherein the first arcuate component and second arcuate component are one of an outer shroud, an inner shroud, a nozzle block or a diaphragm;
- a first slot and a connected second slot on an end of the first arcuate component;
- a first seal disposed into the first slot and a first adjacent slot on the second arcuate component;
- a second seal disposed into the second slot and a second adjacent slot on the second arcuate component, leaving a gap between the first seal and the second seal;
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- a connector coupled to the first seal and the second seal and substantially covering the gap between the first seal and the second seal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.