Patent ID: 8104287

Claim:
A gas turbine combustion chamber, comprising: a support structure; a heat shield secured to the support structure where the heat shield comprises a plurality of heat shield elements having: a cold side that faces a support structure, a hot side opposite the cold side that faces away from the support structure, and a plurality of peripheral sides where each peripheral side spans between adjacent edges of the cold side and hot sides, where at least one of the peripheral sides has an engaging groove, that is bounded in a direction of the cold side by a cold-side material bar, in a direction of the hot side by a hot-side material bar and in a direction of an interior of the heat shield element by a groove base, wherein a material recess is present in a section of the cold-side material bar or the groove base, located in an area of the engaging groove provided to engage with a retaining section of a retaining element; a plurality of retaining elements having: a fixing section that fixes the retaining element on the support structure, a retaining section arranged opposite the fixing section configured to engage the engaging groove in the peripheral side of the heat shield element, and a projection attached to the fixing section and configured such that the projection projects in a direction of the heat shield element when the heat shield element is retained, wherein the heat shield elements are retained to the support structure by the retaining elements to provide thermal protection of the combustion chamber, leaving gaps in between, and the projections of the retaining elements engage with the material recesses of the heat shield elements.