Device for making a sealed connection between channels
AssigneeHutchinson
InventorRene Crapart
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Abstract
A device for making a sealed connection between channels which are made respectively in two components which bear on each other via at least one spacer. This device is in the form of a tubular insert 8 comprising a rigid tubular armature 9 having a length slightly less than the thickness of the spacer in the region of the channels; and at least one tube 10, made of rubber or elastic synthetic material, lining at least the ends of the armature 9 and having at both its ends a rim 11, 12 covering the corresponding end of the armature, this rim being able to be compressed, upon fitting the insert, in a sealed manner between each end of the tubular armature 9 and the corresponding component.
Claims10
A device for making a sealed connection between channels which are made respectively in two components which bear on each other via at least one spacer, passing through this spacer being at least one bore having a diameter greater than that of the channels and adapted to bring a channel in one of the components into communication with a channel in the other component, each component having a sealing surface surrounding the channels, the device comprising at least one tubular insert disposed in each spacer bore, wherein the tubular insert comprises a rigid tubular armature having a length slightly less than the thickness of the spacer, and wherein the tubular insert comprises at least one elastomeric tube, lining at least the ends of the said armature and having at both its ends a rim covering the corresponding end of this armature, this rim thus being able to be axially compressed, in a sealed manner between each corresponding component to form a circumferentially sealed interface between the ends of the insert and the sealing surfaces of the components.
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