Fully bladed closure for tangential entry round skirt dovetails

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7921556
APP PUB NO 20090047128A1
SERIAL NO

11839888

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A fully bladed closure design for a turbine wheel with tangential entry. A set of the final three buckets including a bladed closure bucket are disposed about a wheel margin with two buckets adjacent to the bladed closure bucket secured to the wheel margin by the dovetails. The closure bucket is secured to adjacent buckets by a combination of one or more retaining keys and to the margin by one or more retaining pins. The bladed closure bucket and the adjoining faces of the adjacent buckets have flat skirts providing suppport from the retaining keys across the full axial width of the bladed closure bucket and the adjacent buckets.

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GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY1 RIVER ROAD SCHENECTADY NY 12345

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bracken, Robert James Niskayuna, US 20 114
Garlapati, Praveen Kumar Hyderabad, IN 7 13
Lavash, John C Niskayuna, US 1 8

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