Apparatus and method for reducing wear in disk lugs
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorRonald Ralph Cairo
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Abstract
A disk includes a disk lug and a wear element. The disk lug includes an outer surface, an inner surface radially inward of the outer surface, and a plurality of lateral surfaces between the outer surface and the inner surface, wherein the outer surface is wider than the inner surface. The wear element is disposed on at least one of the plurality of lateral surfaces, and the wear element creates a raised surface on at least one of the plurality of lateral surfaces. A method for installing a wear element to a disk lug includes machining a slot into the disk lug and inserting the wear element at least partially into the slot so that the wear element creates a raised surface on the disk lug.
Claims17
A disk, comprising:
- a. a disk lug, wherein the disk lug includes
- i. an outer surface;
- ii. an inner surface radially inward of the outer surface;
- iii. a plurality of lateral surfaces between the outer surface and the inner surface, wherein the outer surface is wider than the inner surface and at least one of the plurality of lateral surfaces defines a slot having at least two sidewalls that define a width of the slot that increases at some point inside the slot;
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- b. at least one wear element disposed on at least one of the plurality of lateral surfaces and at least partially in the slot, wherein the at least one wear element creates a raised surface on at least one of the plurality of lateral surfaces.
A method for installing a wear element to a disk lug, comprising:
- a. machining a slot into the disk lug;
- b. machining at least two sidewalls in the slot, wherein the at least two sidewalls define a width of the slot and the width of the slot increases at some point inside the slot;
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- c. inserting the wear element at least partially into the slot, wherein the wear element creates a raised surface on the disk lug.
A method for installing a wear element to a disk lug, comprising:
- a. applying the wear element to a side of a disk lug so that the wear element creates a raised surface on the disk lug;
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- b. attaching the disk lug to a disk rim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.