V-BLADE AND V-GROOVE JOINT MOLDED COMPOSITE WEAR SLEEVE
An annular molded composite wear sleeve (40) is bonded with epoxy or other bonding agent in an annular V-groove (34) in a groove ring (64). Wear sleeve (40) may include forward and aft sleeve walls (46, 48) extending at forward and aft sleeve obtuse angles (50, 52) away from a sleeve bottom (44) and...
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Zusammenfassung: | An annular molded composite wear sleeve (40) is bonded with epoxy or other bonding agent in an annular V-groove (34) in a groove ring (64). Wear sleeve (40) may include forward and aft sleeve walls (46, 48) extending at forward and aft sleeve obtuse angles (50, 52) away from a sleeve bottom (44) and may include annular forward and aft sleeve fillets (54, 56) between sleeve bottom (44) and forward and aft sleeve walls (46, 48). Aft sleeve wall (48) may include an aft flap (60) compliant with an annular aft taper (62) on groove ring (64). An aircraft gas turbine engine cowl clamping mechanism (22) for clamping a clamshell cowl (20) to a fan casing (26) includes groove ring (64) on a fan casing (26) and molded composite wear sleeve (40) bonded with epoxy or other bonding agent in annular V-groove (34) in groove ring (64). Annular V-blade (30) is on clamshell cowl (20) rotatable to insert annular V-blade (30) in annular V-groove (34). |
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