US 6,886,721 B2 · Sealing probe

Abstract

A sealing probe for injecting a sealant into a sealant-receiving region between a pair of members. The probe includes a hollow, sealant-releasing section, for insertion into the hole in the upper member into at least a portion of the sealant-receiving region. The sealant-releasing section has a plurality of apertures disposed about an outer wall of such section. The aperture passes through the outer wall from a hollow region within such section to the sealant-receiving region. The sealant-receiving section also includes an entrance adjacent a top portion of the sealant section for receiving a sealant and passing such sealant to the hollow region and then from the hollow region, through the apertures, to the region external the sealant-receiving region. The probe includes a first seal disposed about an upper portion of the outer wall. The first seal extends beyond the outer surface of the sealant-releasing section to prevent sealant from passing beyond such first seal to portions of the hole above such first seal. The probe includes a second seal disposed adjacent to a lower portion of the outer wall to prevent sealant from passing into the aperture in the lower member.

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Dependent claims

A sealing probe, comprising:

(A) a hollow, sealant-releasing section, such section having:
(i) a plurality of apertures disposed about an outer wall of such section, such apertures passing through the outer wall from a hollow, interior region within such section to a region external to the sealant-releasing section;
and
(ii) an entrance adjacent a top portion of the sealant section for receiving a sealant and passing such sealant to the hollow, interior region and then from the hollow, interior region, through the apertures, to the region external the sealant-releasing section;
(B) a first seal disposed about an upper portion of the outer wall, such first seal extending beyond the outer surface of the sealant-releasing section;
(C) a second seal disposed adjacent to a lower portion of the outer wall;
and
(D) wherein the plurality of apertures are disposed between the first seal and the second seal.

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A sealing probe for injecting a sealant into a sealant-receiving region between a pair of members, each one of the members having an aperture in a surface thereon, an upper one of such members having a hole therethrough, such hole terminating at the aperture therein, such aperture in the upper one of the members being in a lower surface of such upper one of the member, a lower one of the pair of members having the aperture therein in a upper surface thereof, such sealant-receiving region being between portions of the upper and lowers members adjacent to the apertures in the pair of members, such probe comprising:

(A) a hollow, sealant-releasing section, for insertion into the hole in the upper member into at least a portion of the sealant-receiving region, such sealant-releasing section having:
(i) a plurality of apertures disposed about an outer wall of such section, such apertures passing through the outer wall from a hollow region within such section to the sealant-receiving region;
and
(ii) an entrance adjacent a top portion of the sealant section for receiving a sealant and passing such sealant to the hollow region and then from the hollow region, through the apertures, to the region external the sealant-receiving region;
(B) a first seal disposed about an upper portion of the outer wall, such first seal extending beyond the outer surface of the sealant-releasing section to prevent sealant from passing beyond such first seal to portions of the hole above such first seal;
and
(C) a second seal disposed adjacent to a lower portion of the outer wall to prevent sealant from passing into the aperture in the lower member.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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