Patent ID: 6908278

Claim:
An axial compressor for a turbomachine, the compressor being fitted with a device for centripetally bleeding turbine-cooling air from a stream of air flowing through said compressor, said compressor comprising two rings of moving blades extending radially outward from peripheries of two consecutive disks joined together by an outer shroud having holes, and further comprising a fixed ring of stator vanes placed in the stream between said moving rings of blades, said holes serving as air inlets to said bleed device and opening out into an annular groove provided beneath an interstice separating inner platforms of the stator vanes from a rim of the upstream disk, said groove communicating with said stream via said interstice, wherein the groove is fitted with fixed air guide means imparting centripetal swirling motion on the air flowing in said groove, the motion rotating in the same direction as the compressor so as to reduce a velocity of the air entering into the holes relative to said rotating holes.