Profiled gasket for sealing tunnel segment joints
AssigneeVredestein N.V.
InventorEduard H. L. de Munck
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Abstract
Profiled gasket for sealing tunnel segment joints, which is placed in a receiving groove in this segment and which is made of a body of rubber or an elastically deformable synthetic material, said body having at the one side two outer legs, within which there at least two inner legs, a slot being provided between each two legs, at least the upper part of the slot formed by each outer leg and its neighboring inner leg lying within the outer plane of the other side of the body.
Claims4
A profiled gasket for sealing tunnel segments of tunnels built up of segments, each segment being provided with such a profiled gasket running therearound, arranged and provided in a receiving groove provided in this segment and which is made of a body of rubber or an elastically deformable synthetic material, characterized in that this body has at the one side of two of its opposite sides two outer legs, within which there are at least two inner legs, a slot being provided between each two legs, at least the upper part of the slot formed by each outer leg with the neighbouring inner leg lying within the outer plane of the other side of the body, each of the outer legs also provided with one or more holes or recesses.
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