Aircraft brake heat shield having easily removed heat shield sections

An aircraft wheel and heat shield assembly, comprising:

• a wheel having a hub and a tube well concentric with said hub, and a web interconnecting said hub and said tube well;
• a plurality of removable torque bars fixed to said wheel generally parallel to the axis of rotation of said wheel and spaced from said tube well;
• a heat shield attached to said wheel concentric with said tube well and having a plurality of heat shield sections disposed between adjacent torque bars and spaced from said tube well, said heat shield sections being removable without removing any torque bars, and a plurality of elongate heat shield carriers fixed to said wheel generally parallel to the axis of rotation of said wheel intermediate said torque bars and said tube well, said heat shield carriers being spaced from said torque bars and said tube well, said heat shield carriers superposing said torque bars and engaging said plurality of heat shield sections, said heat shield and said tube well defining an annular space therebetween.

A heat shield for attachment to an aircraft wheel having a hub and a tube well concentric with the hub, a web interconnecting the hub and the tube well, and a plurality of torque bars fixed to the wheel generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the wheel and spaced from the tube well, comprising:

• a plurality of heat shield sections to be disposed between adjacent torque bars and spaced from the tube well;
• and,
• a plurality of elongate heat shield carriers to be fixed to the wheel generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the wheel and spaced from the tube well with said heat shield carriers superposing the torque bars and engaging said plurality of heat shield sections, said plurality of heat shield sections and said plurality of elongate heat shield carriers thereby defining a generally cylindrical wall concentric with said tube well and defining an annular space therebetween.