Patent ID: 8414268
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: F01D

Abstract:
1. A rotor for a turbine engine comprising: a pair of spaced rails, said spaced rails extending around a cylindrical surface to define a rotor hub, and said rails defining a space for receiving blades and locks; a plurality of single slots formed in one of said rails, with an opposed surface on an opposed rail not being formed with a slot, and said single slots being utilized to move at least one of said locks and said blades into said space; said single slots are blade slots and said blades having ears extending outwardly in opposed axial directions, with said ears being received radially inwardly of said rails, and with said single slots being utilized to allow one of said ears to be hooked under said opposed rail, with the other of said ears moving through one of said single slots; said rotor has a hot side rail when mounted in the turbine engine, and a cold side rail, and said single slots being formed in said cold side rail; and said hot side rail faces a combustion section when the rotor is mounted in the turbine engine.