Patent ID: 9616543
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: B23Q,B24B,F01D,F05D,Y02P

Claim:
1. A method for shortening at least one rotor blade of a turbomachine by removal of material at a tip of the blade, the method comprising: providing a belt grinding apparatus including a tip grinding belt, and the apparatus and the belt thereof being configured for grinding the blade tips for shortening the rotor blade; providing the rotor blades installed in a casing of the turbomachine during the shortening; removing part of the casing to at least partially expose the rotor blades to be machined and to expose a parting joint of the casing; attaching the belt grinding apparatus to the casing at the parting joint, in the region of the rotor blades to be machined; orienting the belt grinding apparatus relative to the rotor blades to be shortened in a manner selected to enable the removal by the belt of the material at the blade tips; rotating the at least one rotor blade past the belt; and shortening the rotor blades by operating the belt grinding apparatus and the belt for grinding the blade tips while the rotor on which the at least one blade is supported is continuously rotating.