Cooling air tube vibration damper
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsFrederick Martin Miller, Roger Clayton Walker, Christopher Charles Glynn, Martin C. Hemsworth
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Abstract
In a compressor rotor assembly including a plurality of rotor disks affixed to a rotor body, and wherein at least one radially directed cooling tube is supported from a radially outer end within a rotor shaft, with an opposite, radially inner free end extending toward a longitudinal axis of the rotor, an improvement comprising a ring member loosely secured to the tube at the free end.
Claims11
In a compressor rotor assembly including a plurality of rotor disks affixed to a rotor body, and wherein at least one radially directed cooling tube is supported from one end within a rotor shaft, with an opposite free end extending toward a longitudinal axis of the rotor, the improvement comprising a ring member loosely secured to said tube at said free end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.