Abstract: A turbine nozzle has a row of vanes each rotatable about an axis extending spanwise of the vane. Each vane is rotated by a shaft which extends through one shroud of the stator vane stage. The free end of each vane is sealed by a flexible seal ring structure made up of overlapping flexible leaves. These leaves are fixed to the nozzle inner shroud at the downstream side of the vanes and motive fluid under pressure is admitted upstream of the vanes to the space between the leaves and the shroud so that the pressure difference across the leaves biases them into engagement with the ends of the vanes. The purpose is to seal against leakage past the vane ends without causing undue frictional resistance to varying the vane setting angle.

Abstract: The rotor of a turbine meter is supported in the bore of its housing between a pair of spiders. One vane of each spider has structure with which it engages grooves in the bore wall to lock the spider in place within the bore.

Abstract: A stator for turbomachines and especially multistage axial compressors is ovided with stationary vanes having peripheral heels secured to a casing. The casing is constituted by a series of coaxial cylindrical annular sections between which are formed annular spaces for inserting and guiding the heels. The sections are rigidly fixed to ring-shaped peripheral webs or flanges which are secured to each other by means of radial longitudinal ribs.

Abstract: My invention relates to centrifugal compressors, more particularly to compressors of a known type, in which air enters the compressor rotor parallel to its axis of rotation, engages an inducer portion of the compressor rotor blades which is generally helical, in which the air is accelerated tangentially, and then proceeds through an impeller portion of the rotor formed with substantially radial vanes in which the air is further accelerated tangentially, leaving the rotor periphery with a high tangential velocity. In such a compressor, the air discharged from the rotor is received in a diffuser in which the velocity head of the air is largely converted to static head by a so-called diffusion process of reducing the air velocity. The air is then directed to the outlet or outlets of the compressor. It is to be understood, however, that this invention is concerned not with the rotor but rather with the vaned portion of the diffuser.

Abstract: A toroidal shaped collector with a radial inlet and a single discharge outlet includes a pair of substantially parallel spaced baffle plates extending from the inlet partway into the collector chamber, disposed in the plane of the collector and serves to receive and discharge the airflow from a gas generator such as a gas turbine engine particularly adapted for nonaircraft applications.

Abstract: An axial-flow fan characterized in that supporter blades provided at the upper stream of actuator blades are inclined at the upper stream side of air current from the center toward the tip and, at the same time inclined at a certain angle in the peripheral direction to a plane including the shaft axis.

Abstract: A conveying device for water or aqueous liquids and in particular for the conveyance of waste water is provided which includes a rotatable conveying wheel having a plurality of cells defined by inner and outer concentric rings and a plurality of radially oriented separation walls. A single disc is secured to one side of the inner and outer concentric rings so that the cells are open at one side. A stationary wall member is provided, at least in the region of upward conveyance of the liquid, and a receiving vessel is positioned in the discharge region of the conveying wheel.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a mounting for the sealing housing in a main coolant pump having a vertical pump shaft, an impeller at the lower end of the pump housing, and the pump housing being closed at the upper end thereof by a pump cover in the region of which the sealing housing is located,The improvement comprising that said sealing housing is positioned upwardly from said pump cover,An outer pipe means connecting said pump housing and said sealing housing and passing without touching through an aperture in said pump cover,Said outer pipe means having a portion of swan-neck configuration, in cross-section, in an extension of said pipe means into a region of a housing flange,And said swan-neck portion terminating in a flange between said pump housing and said pump cover.

Abstract: A device for varying the operating characteristics of a turbocharger. A control ring is adjustably mounted within the turbine exhaust passage, adjacent and partially surrounding the exducer portion of the turbine impeller. Axial movement of the ring relative to the impeller changes the proportion of gas which passes completely through the exducer portion. Exducer flow is thus variably bled, the bled portion of the gases passing over the outer surface of the ring.

Abstract: Apparatus for cooling the nozzle guide vanes in the turbine section of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. A plurality of guide vanes is cantilevered from the turbine case and extends radially inward across the path of working medium gases flowing through the turbine. A ring which is deformable in response to pressure forces is disposed between the vanes and the turbine case forming an annular chamber from which air is metered to the vanes during operation of the engine for cooling. In one embodiment platform cavities and airfoil cavities are alternately disposed between the vanes and the ring to isolate airfoil cooling air from platform cooling air.

Abstract: A stator vane assembly is provided, particularly for the first row of stationary vanes of a gas turbine, utilizing ceramic vanes. Each individual vane assembly consists of an airfoil vane with a separate end cap at each end for supporting the vane in position. In accordance with the invention, the engaging surfaces of the vane and of each adjacent end cap are curved surfaces of compound curvature forming engaging pivot and seat surfaces, the major and minor radii of the pivot surface being less than the corresponding major and minor radii of the seat surface, and the curvature of the pivot surface being such that thermal ratcheting of the vane with respect to the end caps is prevented.

Abstract: A diffuser for a centrifugal compressor has an annular array of vanes which are movable to vary the configuration of the diffusing passages between the vanes. Each vane includes a first leaf pivoted adjacent the leading edge of the vane and a second leaf pivoted on the first leaf. These leaves have slots extending chordwise of the vanes which are engaged by pins extending from an actuating ring rotatable about the axis of the diffuser. The slots in the two leaves are at an angle to each other so that when the ring is rotated and the pins move chordwise of the vanes in the leaves, the angle of the first leaf to the radial direction is changed and also the second leaf is moved relative to the first leaf to vary the width of the passage in addition to such variation as results from the change in the angle of the first leaf.

Abstract: In adjusting turbine vanes to control the nozzle area, the unison ring actuates a lever that has one end fixed to the vane casing ring and the vane actuating arm is connected to the lever at a point between the ends to reduce actuating forces required by the unison ring and to permit close tolerance control on the vane angle position.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower is disclosed wherein the impeller blades are made of a pliable, flexible, uniformly apertured sheeting made, for example, of plastic, affixed by a flexible support system, to a central rotatable shaft, so that as the rotatable shaft is driven, the apertured plastic sheet is moved centrifugally outwardly with the solid portions thereof assuming the shape of impeller blades. The impeller blades and support system therefor are made completely of thin, flexible, pliable, material, such as plastic, and the blades may assume forward curved, radial, or backward inclined configurations, during blower operation. The impeller blades cause air movement and, in turn, cause a scroll-shaped housing surrounding the impeller blades, also preferably made of plastic sheeting, to immediately inflate, directing the air to the desired location via ducts and the like, for heating, or cooling, or air conditioning or other purposes.

Abstract: This invention shows a shroud construction located around the tips of the blades on a rotating body in an engine to provide a minimum clearance between the blade tips and the shroud during all conditions of operation-acceleration, steady state and deceleration. This shroud construction provides an arrangement where the internal diameter of the vanes support the shroud member for the tips of the blades. The vane is supported as internal diameter to an internal support while the outer diameter of the vane is permitted radial growth with respect to the turbine casing. While the blade tip shroud can be made integral with the outer shroud of the vanes, it may be connected by means which will permit a small axial misalignment. Means are provided for cooling the shrouds around the tips of the blades.

Abstract: A vane assembly is shown for a relatively short annular transition zone directing the discharge of the working fluid from the compressor turbine to a single stage power turbine in a gas turbine engine. The annular transition zone comprises a plurality of individual arcuate segments having a pair of stationary vanes integrally molded to inner and outer shroud members. A variable vane is disposed immediately downstream of each stationary vane for guiding the working fluid into the power turbine at an optimum angle. The variable vanes are manually adjustable from outside the turbine casing through a linkage and support mechanism that maintains a constant clearance between the variable vane and the shroud members and also accommodates variations in dimensional relationships due to temperature variations. Also, provision is made for centering the axis of the variable vanes to a precise position with respect to the stationary vane to accommodate the buildup of assembly tolerances.

Abstract: A peripheral blower of the kind having a toroidal chamber which is divided along a plane at right angles to its axis into a chamber part bounded by a stator housing having adjacent inlet and outlet ports with a stripper between them, and a chamber part bounded by a rotor housing containing a series of impeller blades, characterized in that the stripper block has a central cross-section corresponding to the cross-section of the hemi-toroidal stator in which it is fixed, and also two shaped vanes projecting one from each end of the block and extending in opposite directions around the toroidal chamber so that they at least partially cover the inlet and outlet ports, the thickness of each vane gradually diminishing from its root connection with the block to its free tip end.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine of a ducted-fan bypass type includes a fan with a plurality of circumferentially spaced airfoils thereon each including first and second portions thereof defining a forward thrust airfoil having a chord to blade spacing ratio greater than one. Each of the first and second portions are rotatably supported on the fan hub and are movable from a forward thrust position when the trailing edge of the first portion is juxtaposed against the leading edge of the second portion to a reverse thrust position wherein the first and second portions are corotated so as to locate the leading edge of the first portion in juxtaposed relationship to the trailing edge of a second portion to define a reverse thrust airfoil for producing a reverse flow of air through the fan duct passage with a resultant reverse thrust action on the gas turbine engine.

Abstract: A turbine wheel on a horizontal shaft is coaxially mounted within a primary nozzle, for support in a river current below a platform carrying electrical power generation equipment. The turbine shaft and primary nozzle are submerged and oriented to enable flow of a portion of river current through the nozzle and past the turbine wheel.The external surface of the nozzle is shaped and has structure to accelerate and/or direct the flow of the adjacent surrounding maintstream river current in a manner to generate a sheath which aids the efflux of that portion of the river current which has passed through the turbine. Part of the said structure is a secondary nozzle surrounding the primary nozzle; the secondary nozzle is arranged to accentuate the control of the surrounding mainstream river current. Bearing means, support means, power take-off means, speed control means and blade shapes are disclosed.

Abstract: A stator structure for a gas turbine engine comprises abutting segments sealed together at their abutting edges. Each segment comprises a plate spaced from a peripheral surface to form a groove in the edge, and the grooves in abutting edges correspond to form a channel in which a sealing member is positioned.