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US 4,284,282 AGranted
Sealing gasket
AssigneeGoetze AG
InventorKlaus Lonne
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Abstract
A sealing gasket has at least one framed throughgoing opening; the frame is formed of at least two superposed bent sheet metal border flanges which have a U-shaped cross section and which have legs of unlike lengths. The border flanges fully overlap the soft material of the gasket without forming an appreciable hollow space underneath the legs.
Claims4
In a sealing gasket having a soft-material plate provided with a throughgoing opening;
- a sheet metal frame surrounding the opening and formed of an inner and at least one outer superposed sheet metal border flange having a U-shaped cross section;
- each border flange having legs arranged at opposite faces of the plate along edge zones of said opening;
- the improvement wherein the legs of the outer border flange are longer than the legs of the inner border flange and further wherein the edge zone of the soft-material plate within the outline of said frame is fully filled with the soft material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.