Manufacture of rings comprising separable segments
AssigneeFilton Limited
InventorGordon Richard Walker
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Abstract
A ring comprising separable segments especially for seating against a rotary seal and a method of manufacturing such a ring which comprises forming and assembling the segments into the ring, clamping the ring segments together, e.g. by bolts, forming at least one tapered passageway in the ring across each joint between mating segments and inserting a tapered pin into the tapered passageway to hold the segments against relative sliding movement before a finishing operation is performed on an end face or the bore of the ring so that such end face or bore can act as an effective rotary seal.
Claims8
A method of manufacturing a ring comprising separable segments, with the improvement that said segments are formed and assembled to constitute the ring and are held together against relative displacement by tapered pins located in correspondingly tapered passageways formed across the joints between mating segments and a finishing operation is performed on at least one face of the ring common to all the segments while the segments are thus held and located by said pins.
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