From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Claims section of a patent specification for a prime mover, likely a gas turbine engine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 147\2\ scan0196 | |
| Date | 24th July 1936 | |
| 6 461,887 1 or claim 2 wherein the working fluid is delivered to a single turbine which provides the useful power and also drives the compressor. 5. A prime mover according to claim 1 or claim 2 wherein the working fluid is delivered to two or more turbines in succession, one or more of which provides useful work and the other or others drives the compressor. 6. A prime mover according to claim 1 or claim 2 wherein the working fluid is delivered to a turbine having two oppositely-rotating wheels, one delivering useful power and the other driving the compressor. 7. A prime mover of the type described wherein the compressor unit is of symmetrical construction comprising a central double-entry second-stage centrifugal compressor, a double-entry first-stage centrifugal compressor on each side of it and a driving turbine at each end of the assembly. 8. A prime mover according to claim 7 wherein the turbine discs are cooled by water-jackets disposed closely adjacent to their side faces. 9. A prime-mover of the type described comprising a compressor as set forth in my patent specification No. 14285 of 1935, a turbine or turbines driving said compressor and a useful power turbine mechanically independent of the compressor. 10. The improved gas turbine substantially as hereinbefore described. Dated this 24th day of July, 1936. BOULT, WADE & TENNANT, Chartered Patent Agents, 111 & 112, Hatton Garden, London, E.C.1. Leamington Spa: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by the Courier Press.—1937. | ||