Patent ID: 8046886
Filing Date: 2011-11-01
Classification: F01D,F05D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A fixture adapted for mounting a plurality of turbine buckets with dovetails to an axial entry rotor wheel of a turbomachine, the fixture comprising: a transfer ring mounted circumferentially around a packing diameter forward of an axial entry rotor wheel being loaded with buckets, the transfer ring being butted to a front of the rotor wheel and including a circumferential slot; a plurality of turbine bucket-holders, each turbine bucket-holder including a dovetail slot for receiving a turbine bucket with a complimentary dovetail and further including a root adapted to slide within the circumferential slot of the transfer ring; and means for positioning the plurality of turbine buckets holders circumferentially around the transfer ring wherein each of the plurality of bucket-holders may be oriented in alignment with one of a plurality of dovetailed slots of the axial entry rotor wheel.