Sealing arrangement for loading door
AssigneeReiff GmbH
InventorHans Votteler
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Abstract
A sealing arrangement for a loading door has three flexible sealing elements extending along two lateral edges and one upper edge of a door opening and movable between an inoperative position in which the flexible sealing elements are located in the plane of the door opening, and an operative position in which they are withdrawn from this plane and extend into the interior of a container or the like so as to abut against the inner walls of the latter. The proximal end portions of the sealing elements overlap one another.
Claims6
A sealing arrangement for a loading door which has a body with an opening provided with one upper and two lateral edges and arranged to be associated with a container which has one upper and two lateral walls, the arrangement comprising sealing means having three flexible sealing elements, said sealing elements including two lateral flexible elements each extending along one of the lateral edges of the opening of the door body and an upper sealing element extending along the upper edge of the same;
- and means for moving said sealing elements between an inoperative position in which said sealing elements extend in a plane of the opening of the door body and an operative position in which said sealing elements are withdrawn from the plane of the opening of the door body and extend into the interior of the container so as to abut against the walls of the latter, said upper sealing element and each of said lateral sealing elements having two end portions arranged so that one end portion of said upper sealing element and one end portion of each of said lateral sealing elements overlap one another in said operative position.
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