Snubber thrust mount
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJohn Alan Manteiga, Christopher James Wilusz, Cornelius Harm Dykhuizen
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Abstract
A thrust mount includes a platform mountable to an aircraft pylon, and includes end clevises and a center clevis therebetween. An equalizer lever includes opposite ends, and a center therebetween pivotally joined to the center clevis. Thrust links are pivotally joined to the lever ends. And, a pair of elastomeric snubbers are disposed adjacent respective ends of the lever inside the end clevises in frictional abutment therebetween.
Claims20
A thrust mount for supporting a gas turbine engine to a pylon of an aircraft, comprising:
- a platform fixedly mountable to said pylon, and including first and second laterally spaced apart end clevises, and a center clevis therebetween;
- an equalizer lever including first and second opposite ends, and a center therebetween pivotally joined to said center clevis;
- first and second thrust links pivotally joined at outer ends to respective ones of said lever ends, and having inner ends for being pivotally mounted to said engine;
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- a pair of elastomeric snubbers disposed adjacent respective ends of said lever inside said end clevises in frictional abutment therebetween.
A thrust mount for supporting a gas turbine engine to a pylon of an aircraft, comprising:
- a platform fixedly mountable to said pylon, and including first and second laterally spaced apart end clevises, and a center clevis therebetween;
- an equalizer lever including first and second opposite ends, and a center therebetween pivotally joined to said center clevis;
- first and second thrust links pivotally joined at outer ends to respective ones of said lever ends, and having inner ends for being pivotally mounted to said engine;
- a pair of elastomeric snubbers disposed adjacent respective ends of said lever inside said end clevises in frictional abutment therebetween;
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- each of said snubbers surrounds said lever on opposite sides thereof to frictionally abut opposite faces of said end clevises.
A whiffle tree lever for equalizing thrust loads in a thrust mount supporting a gas turbine engine to an aircraft pylon comprising:
- first and second opposite ends for being pivotally joined to respective thrust links attached to said engine;
- a center disposed between said lever ends for being pivotally joined to a platform mounted from said pylon;
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- a pair of elastomeric snubbers disposed adjacent respective ones of said lever ends for frictionally engaging respective end clevises of said platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.