Stator adjusting means for axial flow compressors or the like

Claim 1

IN AN AXIAL FLOW COMPRESSOR OR THE LIKE, A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL CASING, A PLURALITY OF STATORS DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CASING, EACH STATOR BEING PIVOTAL ABOUT AN AXIS RADIAL OF SAID CASING, SAID STATORS BEING ARRANGED IN A STAGE DISPOSED GENERALLY IN A PLANE NORMAL TO THE AXIS OF THE CASING, EACH STATOR HAVING A LEVER SECURED THERETO, DISPOSED EXTERIORLY OF SAID CASING, AND EXTENDING LATERALLY FROM ITS PIVOTAL AXIS, AN ACTUATOR RING MOUNTED ADJACENT SAID STAGE OF STATORS FOR OSCIALLATORY MOVEMENT IN A PLANE GENERALLY NORMAL TO THE AXIS OF THE CASING, SAID ACTUATOR RING HAVING A PLURALITY OF CLEVIS PINS MOUNTED THEREIN AND PIVOTAL ABOUT ANGULARLY SPACED AXES RADIAL OF THE CASING, EACH OF THE CLEVIS PINS HAVING A RADIALLY DISPOSED ELONGATED SLOT THEREIN, THE LEVERS OF THE STATORS BEING RECEIVED IN THE SLOTS OF RESPECTIVE ONES OF THE CLEVIS PINS SUCH THAT COMPOUND RELATIVE MOVEMENT CAN OCCUR THEREBETWEEN IN THE AXIAL SENSE WITH RESPECT TO BOTH THE LEVERS AND THE RESPECTIVE CLEVIS PIN, WHEREBY MOVEMENT OF THE ACTUATOR RING WILL IMPART SIMULTANEOUS PIVOTAL MOVEMENT TO THE STATORS.