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US 2014/0190181 A1Published application
Rotor cover plate
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsMark Borja, Ehren B. Holt
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Abstract
A cover plate for a rotor disk in a gas turbine machine includes a cylindrical body having multiple outward facing snaps and multiple inward facing snaps.
Claims18
A gas turbine machine comprising:
- a compressor section;
- a combustor in fluid communication with the compressor section;
- a turbine section in fluid communication with the combustor section;
- a shaft defining an axis and interconnecting said compressor section and said turbine section;
- a plurality of rotors within said turbine section and said compressor section, wherein each of said rotors is connected to said shaft;
- at least one cover plate connected to each of said plurality of rotors, wherein each of said cover plates includes:
- an outside surface snap contacting a radially inward facing surface relative to said axis of the corresponding rotor;
- an inside surface snap contacting a radially outward facing surface relative to said axis of the corresponding rotor;
- and
- wherein said outside surface snap and said inside surface snap are not radially aligned.
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A cover plate for a rotor disk in a gas turbine machine comprising:
- a cylindrical body defining an axis;
- an opening in said cylindrical body wherein said opening is centered on said axis;
- a plurality of outwardly facing snaps having a contact surface facing radially outward relative to said axis;
- and
- a plurality of inwardly facing snaps having a contact surface facing radially inwards relative to said axis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.