DefinitionA <VARIABLE PITCH BLADE> is a <FAN BLADE> by which the pitch of the blades is varied under control of a controller according to the speed of subject rotating machinery; the controller is programmed to respond to increased rotating machinery speed by decreasing pitch of the fan blades
Typically the variable pitch rotating machinery has a piston extending axially from a main shaft, about which main shaft a fan blade hub rotates; a pitch shifter is mounted on a cylinder, which itself is mounted on the piston.