Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a variable geometry system that includes a mounting system to facilitate extending a useful life of a variable geometry system is described. The engine includes a high pressure compressor including a plurality of variable vanes and rotating vanes. The variable geometry system is coupled to an actuator and includes a master lever, an aft mount, and a slot and groove joint. The master lever is coupled to the aft mount with the slot and groove joint, and adjusts a position of the variable vanes without inducing angular displacement on the aft mount.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a variable geometry system that includes a mounting system to facilitate extending a useful life of a variable geometry system is described. The engine includes a high pressure compressor including a plurality of variable vanes and rotating vanes. The variable geometry system is coupled to an actuator and includes a master lever, an aft mount, and a slot and groove joint. The master lever is coupled to the aft mount with the slot and groove joint, and adjusts a position of the variable vanes without inducing angular displacement on the aft mount.

Abstract: An assembly for coupling together in a turbofan engine the guide vane and the inner vane shroud. The assembly includes a bushing positioned within a shroud port for receiving the inner trunnion of the vane. A washer located between the bushing and a trunnion button of the vane provides substantial retaining contact between the bushing and the vane. A shroud retainer affixed to the inner surface of the shroud captures the bushing in the shroud port. The retainer preferably spans a series of shroud sections for as much as about one-half of the entire circumference of the shroud. The combination of the washer and the retainer with significant span reduces movement between the shroud and the vane. Wear on the vane trunnion is therefore reduced and maintenance obligations correspondingly reduced.