Patent ID: 7377117

Claim:
In a transition piece of a type used to connect a combustor of a gas turbine to a stage of the gas turbine, the transition piece having a generally tubular body, an inlet to receive hot gases from the combustor, and an outlet to discharge the gases, the transition piece having a frame, which surrounds the outlet, the transition piece having a mounting connector, which extends from the frame, away from the outlet, wherein the frame has a longer, arcuate portion, a shorter, arcuate portion, two lateral, radial portions, which are shorter than the shorter, arcuate portion, and four rounded, corner portions joining the arcuate and radial portions, an improvement wherein the mounting connector is mounted to a pedestal, which projects from the longer, arcuate portion of the frame, which extends completely along the larger, arcuate portion, completely along each of the rounded, corner portions adjoined to the longer, arcuate portion, and substantially less than halfway along each of the lateral, radial portions where adjoined to one of the rounded, corner portions adjoined to the longer, arcuate portion, but which does not extend further along either of the lateral, radial portions and which does not extend along any part of the shorter, arcuate portion.