摘要:
A machine tool for heating and cutting a workpiece, the machine tool having a rotatable manifold attached to its saddle. The rotatable manifold receives service fluids from suitable sources of supply and delivers them to heating torches which are placed adjacent responsive cutting tools.
摘要:
In a variable pitch fan gas turbine engine the pitch varying mechanism is, for example, a gear mechanism and a clutch is provided for locking the mechanism when an engine has to be shut down so that the variable pitch blades are driven by rotation of the fan rotor into the feathered position to prevent windmilling of the fan.
摘要:
This invention concerns a coupling device particularly suitable for securing together two portions of a gas turbine engine main shaft. The coupling comprises a splined joint which is secured against both axial and rotational movement by means of two opposed tapered collets.
摘要:
Casting apparatus for the production of directionally solidified castings comprises first, second and third chambers and valves between the first and second and second and third chambers. The first chamber holds a charge melting and pouring arrangement. The second comprises a casting chamber and the third is a withdrawal chamber so that the casting may be withdrawn in a controlled fashion from the second chamber to produce the required directional solidification.
摘要:
An aerofoil member for static operation in a gas turbine engine is provided with a shroud and root, one of which has a concave supporting surface formed thereon and the other a convex supporting surface thereon. Both of the surfaces are on that end of the member which faces downstream in operation. Such an aerofoil member is relieved of major bending and tensile loads thereby enabling it to be constructed from ceramic materials.
摘要:
The blades of a variable pitch fan of a gas turbine engine are rotated about their longitudinal axes as well as about the axis of the engine by a gear system which comprises a stationary actuator which initiates the pitch varying movement by producing a rotary output corresponding to the degree of pitch change required, an epicyclic differential gear driven by this output and the engine main shaft, and arranged to produce an output corresponding to the sum of the rotary output and the shaft rotational speed, and a pitch changing gear adapted to be driven by the output of the differential gear and to produce relative rotation of two annulus gears connected to rotate the fan blades about their own axes.
摘要:
A gas turbine blade has a hollow interior space which is divided to form flow passages for cooling medium. The flow passages are bounded by the sides of a sheet-like insert the two blade walls, and fins between the insert and the blade walls; they commence at one end of the blade and extend in a spiral-like path around the opposite sides of the insert.
摘要:
A compressor for gas turbine engines, the compressor having an annular array of blades surrounded by a circumferentially continuous shroud ring having recesses pivotally engaged by extensions of the blades so that the radially outer ends of the blades are supported in normal operation, e.g. against vibration, but if the blades bend under an impact load, e.g. a bird strike, the outer ends can accommodate the bending by their freedom to pivot in the recesses or even by withdrawing therefrom.
摘要:
A nozzle guide vane assembly for a gas turbine engine includes one or more vanes, each provided with a radially inner and a radially outer shroud member. The assembly is adapted to be supported between radially inner and radially outer support members. One or more of the shroud members are provided with a chordally extending straight sealing edge adapted to sealingly contact one of the radially inner and outer support members.
摘要:
A combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine which has staged combustion in two toroidal vortices of opposite hand arranged one upstream of the other. A burner delivers air/fuel mixture in a radial direction to support the vortices and the burner has a convergent outlet for the air/fuel mixture.