Invention Application
- Patent Title: TIP SHROUDED TURBINE ROTOR BLADES
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Application No.: US14979788Application Date: 2015-12-28
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Publication No.: US20170183971A1Publication Date: 2017-06-29
- Inventor: Michael McDufford , Jeffrey Clarence Jones
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Main IPC: F01D5/22
- IPC: F01D5/22 ; F01D11/00

Abstract:
A rotor blade for a gas turbine that includes an airfoil and a tip shroud. The tip shroud may have a seal rail that projects radially from an outboard surface and extends circumferentially. The tip shroud may further include: a rotationally leading circumferential face; a rotationally trailing circumferential face; and an outboard face of the seal rail. The tip shroud may be circumferentially divided into three parallel reference zones: a rotationally leading edge zone, a rotationally trailing edge zone and, formed between and separating those, a middle zone. The seal rail may include a hollow cavity wholly contained within at least one of the rotationally leading edge zone and the rotationally trailing edge zone. The cavity may include a mouth formed through at least one of the rotationally leading circumferential face, the rotationally trailing circumferential face, and the outboard face of the seal rail.
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