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US 5,443,362 AGranted
Air turbine
AssigneeThe Hoover Company
InventorsTimothy E. Crites, Douglas C. Barker, Joseph W. Clifford, Darwin S. Crouser
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Abstract
An air turbine is provided having an entrance stator blade arrangement formed in two halfs, each containing a blade array, with the two halfs interleaved, upon turbine assembly, to thereby easily form an entrance stator with a multiplicity of entrance stator blades.
Claims10
An air turbine including:
- a) a turbine housing;
- b) an inlet and an outlet for said housing;
- c) a turbine rotor disposed in said turbine housing between said inlet and said outlet;
- d) a stator also disposed in said turbine housing between said inlet and outlet;
- e) said stator formed of two confronting pieces having oppositely extending stator blades;
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- f) said stator blades being interleaved whereby stator blading may be more easily provided in said turbine housing.
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