Seal for a joint or juncture – Seal between relatively movable parts – Relatively rotatable radially extending sealing face member
Patent
1979-07-02
1981-01-06
Ward, Jr., Robert S.
Seal for a joint or juncture
Seal between relatively movable parts
Relatively rotatable radially extending sealing face member
277 1, 277228, 277DIG6, 264159, F16J 1532
Patent
active
042432359
ABSTRACT:
A lip seal comprising a uniformly thin wafer of adjacent radical concentric sections of polytetrafluoroethylene and an elastomer, which elastomer is attached to a rigid annular member for mounting the seal. The polytetrafluoroethylene annular lip sealing portion may be either on the inner or outer circumference of the washer-shaped annular seal, and the rigid annular supporting member may be of a plastic or metal which is bonded and/or clamped to the elastomeric annular portion. The polytetrafluoroethylene annular portion of the wafer seal may be slit, grooved and/or formed to improve its flexibility and/or sealing action.
The combination polytetrafluoroethylene and elastomer wafers are formed by first fabricating a polytetrafluoroethylene tube or rod having a wall thickness corresponding at least to the radial thickness of the resulting washer, and then etching at least one of the cylindrical surfaces of this tube or rod to which the elastomer is next bonded in a mold. The resulting tube or rod of concentric bonded cylinders of elastomer and polytetrafluoroethylene is clamped at one end in a machine, such as a lathe, and the wafers or washers are knifed or slit off from the other end. If slits or grooves are to be cut into the polytetrafluoroethylene portion, such can be done in the same machine or lathe by another cutting tool prior to the slicing off of the washers.
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Kirk Hugh Adam
The Mather Company
Ward, Jr. Robert S.
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