Patent ID: 7441331

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a turbine engine component having one or more internal feed passageways, one or more external walls, and one or more outlet passageways through the one or more external walls, the method comprising: cutting one or more cuts in a workpiece to create a plurality of separate subpieces each having one or more cut surfaces; providing a plurality of apertures in the one or more cut surfaces; after said providing, reassembling a combination of said subpieces or of like subpieces; integrating the combination; and machining at least portions of the internal feed passageways so that at least some of said outlet passageways are formed by combinations of said apertures from separate ones of said subpieces, wherein said machining said at least one internal feed passageway is generally transverse to said plurality of apertures in each of said pairs so as to ultimately intersect therewith.