Patent ID: 7856826

Claim:
A method of assembling a combustor for use in a turbine engine, said method comprising: providing a dome assembly ring including a plurality of assembly ring openings; positioning a plurality of elongated rings on the dome assembly ring; providing a cowl assembly including an inner cowl portion and a separate outer cowl portion that are each fabricated from sheet material, wherein at least one of the inner cowl portion and the outer cowl portion includes a plurality of circumferentially and uniformly spaced cowl lips, wherein each inner cowl lip extends away from an inner surface of the inner cowl portion towards a center of the inner cowl portion to define an inner cowl terminus configured to engage a swirler and wherein each outer cowl lip extends away from the outer cowl towards a center of the outer cowl portion to define an outer cowl terminus configured to engage a swirler; and coupling the inner and outer cowl portions to the dome assembly ring such that each of the plurality of elongated rings is coupled to the dome assembly ring.