Brush seal system with elliptical clearance
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsXiaoqing Zheng, Mehmet Demiroglu, Michael Dennis Mack, Guoqiang Lu
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Abstract
The present application provides for a brush seal system for use about a rotor of a rotary machine. The brush seal system may include a number of brush seal segments, with each of the brush seal segments having a number of bristles, and one or more of the brush seal segments including an elliptical profile so as to vary a clearance between the brush seal segments and the rotor.
Claims19
A brush seal system for use about a rotor of a rotary machine, comprising:
- a plurality of brush seal segments;
- each of the brush seal segments comprising a plurality of bristles;
- and
- one or more of the plurality of brush seal segments comprising an elliptical profile so as to vary a clearance between the plurality of brush seal segments and the rotor.
A brush seal system for use about a rotor of a rotary machine, comprising:
- a plurality of brush seal segments;
- each of the brush seal segments comprising a plurality of bristles;
- and
- one or more of the plurality of brush seal segments comprising a variable length elliptical orientation so as to vary a clearance between the plurality of brush seal segments and the rotor.
A brush seal system for use with a rotor of a rotary machine, comprising:
- a plurality of brush seal segments;
- each of the brush seal segments comprising a plurality of bristles;
- and
- one or more of the plurality of brush seal segments comprising a contoured elliptical orientation so as to vary a clearance between the plurality of brush seal segments and the rotor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.