Claims
- 1. An appliance for cooling inner and outer walls of a combustion chamber to compensate for local damage to a wall of the combustion chamber, comprising:
- a plurality of separate cooling air ducts disposed between inner and outer walls to guide cooling air longitudinally along the walls;
- wherein connecting openings are arranged between adjacent cooling ducts to permit cooling air to flow between adjacent cooling ducts, and wherein connecting openings communicating from opposite sides of each cooling duct are mutually offset in the longitudinal direction.
- 2. The appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connecting openings have a predetermined longitudinal length, and the connecting openings are longitudinally spaced a distance substantially equal to the longitudinal length of the connecting openings.
- 3. The appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cooling ducts are separated by cooling ribs and the connecting openings are formed in the cooling ribs.
- 4. The appliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connecting openings between adjacent cooling ducts have a predetermined width selected so that a product of an average connecting opening width and a cooling duct length divided by a cross-sectional area of the cooling duct is in a range greater than 2 and less than 8.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/323,688, filed Oct. 17, 1996, pending.
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