Patent ID: 7021896

Claim:
A turbine blade having a hollow aerofoil portion provided with a multiplicity of cooling air passageways through at least its leading edge wall portion, which said passageways connect the interior of said hollow aerofoil portion with the aerofoil portion exterior, and are angularly arranged with respect to each other and said aerofoil such that their axes intersect within the thickness of said wall portion and their respective rim profiles at the aerofoil exterior at least approximate ellipses wherein said intersecting passageways extend from a position near the tip of said aerofoil portion along a major portion of the length of said aerofoil portion; said turbine blade includes further passageways connecting the interior of said hollow aerofoil portion with the exterior of said aerofoil portion, which said further passageways are angularly arranged with respect to said aerofoil portion without intersecting each other, and are positioned in at least said aerofoil leading edge wall portion in the vicinity of its juncture with the root of said turbine blade.