Shaftless turbine

Details Shaftless turbine Shaftless turbine

1980-09-22

1986-05-06

Garrett, Robert E.

Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps

Smooth runner surface for working fluid frictional contact

415202, F01D 136

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045868719

ABSTRACT:
A turbine has a disc pack rotor with a central aperture-free or solid disc that divides the pack into two equal portions. The annular discs of each portion have aligned, central and unobstructed exhaust openings and the outer end disc of each portion is a support member having a webbed hub that is attached to a respective drive shaft journalled in the turbine casing. A stationary circular nozzle assembly closely surrounds the outer circumference of the disc pack to form one or more convergent-divergent nozzles that guide motivating fluid from an outer casing plenum into spaces between neighboring discs. The discs are separated from one another and interconnected by fences that guide the motivating fluid to the exhaust openings in each pack portion. Thus, fluid enters the pack circumference and is split into two parts by the center disc to exhaust in relatively opposite directions. The shaft for each pack portion preferably terminates at the outer support disc to form a two-direction "shaftless" rotor.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1139562 (1915-05-01), Nash
patent: 4232992 (1980-11-01), Possell
patent: 4280791 (1981-07-01), Gawne

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