Turbocompressor

Claim 1

A TURBOCOMPRESSOR CONSISTING OF A CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR HAVING INNER AND OUTER RUNNERS, BEING OF THE DOUBLE ENTRY TWO SECTION TYPE, UPPER AND LOWER SECTIONS BEING CONNECTED AND DRIVEN THROUGH A FINAL SET OF TURBINE BLADES OR VANES DISTRIBUTED CONCENTRICALLY AROUND THE PERIPHERY BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER SECTIONS OF THE CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR AND ATTACHED TO THE INNER RUNNERS THEREOF, SAID RUNNERS BEING CONCENTRIC DISCS EXTENDING RADIALLY OUTBOARD FROM THE COMPRESSOR INLET AND SLOPING OUTBOARD TOWARD EACH OTHER AND TOWARD THE CENTRAL RADIAL PLANE, THERE BE ING TWO INNER RUNNERS AND TWO OUTER RUNNERS PROVIDED TO CONTAIN THE VANES IN BOTH THE UPPER AND LOWER SECTIONS OF THE COMPRESSOR, SAID VANES BETWEEN RUNNERS HAVING A CURVATURE FOR TURNING THE FLOW AND DISCHARGING IT OUTBOARDLY INTO THE UPPER AND LOWER SECTIONS OF A COUNTERROTATING BLADE RING ASSEMBLY, SAID AISSEMBLY COMPRISING A CENTRAL TURBINE SECTION CONTAINING TURBINE BLADES, EACH BLADE SET VERTICALLY BETWEEN TWO VERTICALLY SPACED INTERIOR HORIZONTAL MOUNTING RINGS, AND JOINED AT EACH END THROUGH SAID MOUNNTING RINGS TO TWO DIFFUSER BLADES, UPPER AND LOWER, MOUNTED VERTICALLY BETWEEN TWO VERTICALLY SPACED EXTERIOR HORIZONTAL MOUNTING RINGS AND SAID INTERIOR RINGS, SUCH THAT EACH INTEGRAL BLADE, CONSISTING OF A CENTRAL TURBINE SECTION AND ITS ASSOCIATED DIFFUSER PROFILES, HAS ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS APPROXIMATELY VERTICAL AND APPROXIMATELY PARALLEL TO THE COMPRESSOR CENTER LINE ABOUT WHICH IT ROTATES, THE INTEGRAL BLADES BEING DISTRIBUTED UNIFORMALY AROUND THE MOUNTING RINGS, SAID INTERIOR MOUNTING RINGS BEING PARALLEL, SELF EQULIBRATING AND CONTAINING LABYRINTHS FOR SEPARATING THE OUTFLOW DIFFUSER SECTIONS, TOP AND BOTTOM, FROM THE CENTRAL INFLOW TURBINE SECTION, THE LABBYRINTH VALVES ACTING TO DISTRIBUTE LEAKAGE FLOW TO THE BLADE RING BEARINGS, THE BLADE RING ASSEMBLY BEING FREE TO ROTATE BETWEEN BEARINGS IN THE EXTERIOR MOUNTING RINGS UNDER THE IMPULSE AND REACTION TRANSMITTED TO ITS CENTRAL TURBINE BLADES BY THE INFLOWING STREAM, SAID STREAM BEING DIRECTED RADIALLY INBOARD THROUGH THE INTERIOR BLADING OF THE BLADE RING ASSEMBLY ONTO THE COUNTER-ROTATING TURBINE MEANS OF THE CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR WHOSE INNER RUNNERS TOGETHER WITH A CENTER BODY FLOW DIVIDER FORM AN EXHAUST CHAMBER FOR TRANSFORMING THE RADIAL INFLOW INTO AN AXIAL, OPPOSITELY DIRECTED STREAMS, BEING EMITTED, TOP AND BOTTOM, FROM THE INNER RUNNERS, SAID RUNNERS BEING CONNECTED TO WALL MEANS, THROUGH LABYRINTH VALVES, FOR CONTAINING AND UTILIZING SAID STREAMS.