Rotor blade manufacture
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsGemma Alexandra Raven, Christopher Jonathan Taylor, Alexander David May, Andrew Alan Robert Baird
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Abstract
A method is provided of processing one or more blades of a row of blades which forms part of a rotor for a gas turbine engine. The method includes: providing a rotor disc having a slot for mounting one or more blades; applying tape at one or both sides of the slot such that when the blades are loaded in the slot the tape reduces a range of tilt angles which can be adopted by the blades; loading the blades in the slot; and performing a processing operation on the loaded blades.
Claims10
A method of grinding tips of one or more blades of a row of blades which forms part of a rotor for a gas turbine engine, the method including:
- providing a rotor disc having a slot for mounting one or more blades;
- applying tape at one or both sides of the slot such that, when each of the one or more blades is loaded in the slot, the tape reduces a range of tilt angles which can be adopted by the blade;
- loading the one or more blades in the slot;
- performing a grinding operation on a blade tip of each of the loaded one or more blades;
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- removing the tape from the disc after the grinding operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.