Slip joint between a gas turbine engine and a heat exchanger

In an assembly having first and second bodies, the first body including a rectangular-shaped hot gas discharge manifold defining a first flange thereabout having a flat surface, the second body including a rectangular-shaped hot gas inlet manifold defining a second flange thereabout having a flat surface, the first and second bodies affixed one to the other at a point remote of said manifolds and with said flat surfaces in an abutting relation, and said first and second bodies having different thermal expansion rates, a slip joint for connecting the hot gas discharge manifold of the first body to the hot gas inlet manifold of the second body, the slip joint comprising:

• clamp means fixed relative the first body allowing limited translational movement of second body relative the first body while sealingly allowing the hot gas discharge manifold to communicate gases from the first body to the second body through the hot gas inlet manifold under varying temperature conditions;
• the clamp means comprising a plurality of generally rectilinear C-shaped members, each having an open side, opposing base sides, and a closed side opposite the open side, and wherein each C-shaped member may be disposed with the open side thereof in a clamping relationship with the first and second flanges, while said first and second flanges are in an abutting relation;
• said first flange defining a plurality of spaced-apart threaded bores;
• a base side of each C-shaped member defining a plurality of holes each alignable with the spaced-apart threaded bores of the first flange, and each hole of larger diameter than the threaded bore;
• the assembly further comprising bolt means threadably disposable in said bore and extending outwardly therefrom through said aligned holes so that said C-shaped member is retained in a clamping relation with the first and second flanges.