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US 5,492,338 AGranted
Hollow elastic seal with releasably retained sealing lip
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorGeorg Grafenstein
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Abstract
In an elastic seal 6 for sealing a part passing through a motor vehicle body opening 3, e.g., a steering gear 2 or a steering column of a motor vehicle, a sealing lip 6 connected to a holding part 8 is designed as a hollow bead 5 whose free end 7 is fixed in a detachable manner to the holding part 8.
Claims4
In combination with a panel (1) having an opening (3) therein and an apparatus (2) adjacent said panel having a portion (16) thereof passing through said opening in said panel,
- a seal comprising:
- an annular elastomeric holding part (8) around said portion of said apparatus passing through said opening in said panel and connected to one of said apparatus and said panel,
- an elastomeric sealing lip (6) integral with said holding part having an annular exposed end (7) opposite said holding part and defining a hollow bead (5) bearing against said other of said apparatus and said panel when said sealing lip is flexed inward, said annular exposed end thereof and said holding part being juxtaposed, and
- connection means on said holding part and on said annular exposed end of said sealing lip operative to releasably retain said sealing lip in juxtaposition to said holding part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.