Joint sealing for engine housings
AssigneeCaterpillar Tractor Co.
InventorsAlexander Goloff, Tsu Pin Shyu
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Abstract
An improved mechanism such as an engine, pump, compressor, or the like, including two abutting housing members sealingly engaging each other and defining a chamber receiving a piston. The members are clamped together and at least one of the members is relieved over a portion of its area of abutment with the other, the relieved portion being remote from the chamber. Upon clamping, excellent contact stress at the boundary of the chamber is established to preclude gas leakage in spite of yielding or fretting of the parts during operation.
Claims7
In an engine including two, abutting housing members sealingly engaging each other and defining a chamber receiving a piston, and means clamping said members together, the improvement wherein at least one of said members is relieved over a portion of its area of abutment with the other member, said relieved portion being remote from said chamber and wherein said clamping means includes means applying a clamping force to said members at a location aligned with said relieved portion and remote from the point of engagement of said members and in sufficient amounts to elastically deform said members to generate high contact stresses at their point of engagement immediately adjacent said chamber to effect a gas-tight seal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.