Patent ID: 7094026

Claim:
A turbine comprising: a turbine nozzle segment having at least one stator vane and including an inner platform rail; a turbine nozzle inner support ring in part in axial registration with said rail on one side thereof; an inner retainer segment secured to said inner support ring and in part in axially spaced registration relative to said rail on an axial side of said rail opposite from said support ring; and a seal assembly extending between said inner retainer segment and said rail, said seal assembly including a plurality of seal fingers secured to said inner retainer segment and in engagement with said rail, said seal assembly including first and second sets of circumferentially adjacent seal fingers overlying one another, said first set of seal fingers having at least one gap between circumferentially adjacent fingers thereof and said second set of seal fingers having at least one gap between circumferentially adjacent fingers thereof, said first and second sets of seal fingers being staggered in a circumferential direction relative to one another with a finger of said first set of fingers overlying the one gap between the circumferentially adjacent fingers of said second set thereof.