Patent 7305830 was granted and assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a gas turbine engine, a fuel inlet tube comprising a body, a channel defined in the body and in fluid communication with a manifold, and a side inlet in fluid communication with the channel, the side inlet being sealingly isolated by at least two annular sealing members concentric with each other and disposed about the tube body at longitudinally spaced part points thereon.