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US 2022/0023981 A1Published application
System for fastening a seal to a rotor blade of a rotary feeder
AssigneeSchenck Process Europe GmbH
InventorMichal CHLEBOVEC
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Abstract
A fastening system having a supporting strip, to which is fastened, outside the housing of the rotary feeder, a seal designed to seal the blade of the rotor in relation to the housing. The mounted unit of supporting strip and seal is inserted into a groove devised in the blade. This installation unit is then secured to the blade by means of securing screws. The seal can be made from a hard seal, especially steel, or a soft seal, especially rubberized textile, attached on the outside by a locating strip.
Claims11
A system to fasten a seal to a rotor blade of a rotary feeder of loose material, the system comprising:
- a sealing edge formed on the seal secured to the rotor blade, the sealing edge arranged above a top edge of the rotor blade;
- a groove formed below a top edge and formed in a wall of the rotor blade that is substantially parallel with an axis of a rotor;
- an installation unit formed of a supporting strip and a seal and attached by a locating strip by fastening screws;
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- the supporting strip removingly secured in the groove, the supporting strip having a first contact surface having a shape that substantially matches with a shape of the groove and a having a second contact surface directly in contact with a contact surface of the seal,
- wherein the seal and the supporting strip form a rigid unit with the rotor blade fixed with at least one securing screw, and
- wherein on each side of the groove, there is formed at least one anchor hole in the rotor blade, which is adapted to the at least one securing screw.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.