Title: Gas turbine construction

Abstract: A gas turbine consisting of alternate stators and rotors so fabricated that all stator vanes, all rotor blades and all blade tip seals may be removed through the engine case without requiring disassembly or translation of major portions of the gas turbine engine.

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Inventors: Asplund, Herbert Frederick (South Windsor, CT, US)

Application Number: 601564
Filing Date: 1975-08-01
Publication_date: 1977-03-15
Assignee: United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, CT)
Primary Class(es): 60/796 415/189
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US Patent Ref:

2488867	Nov, 1949	Judson	415/136.
2843357	Jul, 1958	Spindler	415/189.
2851246	Sep, 1958	Nichols	415/170.
2916874	Dec, 1959	Worobel	60/39.
2998959	Sep, 1961	Haworth	416/221.
3423071	Jan, 1969	Noren	415/189.
3455537	Jul, 1969	Kozlin	416/96.
3752598	Aug, 1973	Bowers	415/173.
3842595	Oct, 1974	Smith	415/189.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Croyle, Carlton R.
Assistant Examiner: Casaregola, L. J.
Attorney: Hauschild; Vernon F.