Patent ID: 9328926
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: F23R

Claim Text:
1. A combustion chamber head for a gas turbine: wherein the gas turbine includes an axis; a substantially annular outer combustion chamber wall; at least one substantially annular inner combustion chamber wall: and a plurality of burners distributed around a circumference of the gas turbine; the combustion chamber head comprising a plurality of head segments arranged around the circumference in equal number to a number of the burners and extending in a radial direction between the inner combustion chamber wall and the outer combustion chamber wall and also extending in a circumferential direction between two adjacent ones of the burners; each head segment having a radially outer edge, a radially inner edge and opposite first and second outer side edges each extending between the radially inner edge and the radially outer edge, with the first outer side edge positioned adjacent a first one of the two adjacent ones of the burners and the second outer side edges positioned adjacent a second one of the two adjacent ones of the burners; the first outer side edge including a first portion extending between the inner combustion chamber wall and the first one of the two adjacent ones of the burners, a second portion notched toward a center of the head segment to fit around a portion of an outer periphery of the first one of the two adjacent ones of the burners and a third portion extending between the first one of the two adjacent ones of the burners and the outer combustion chamber wall; the second outer side edge including a fourth portion extending between the inner combustion chamber wall and the second one of the two adjacent ones of the burners, a fifth portion notched toward a center of the head segment to fit around a portion of an outer periphery of the second one of the two adjacent ones of the burners and a sixth the outer combustion chamber wall.