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US 9,067,346 B2Granted
Seal and procedure for its production
AssigneeCarl Freudenberg KG
InventorsJason Kohn, Jens Trabert
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Abstract
A seal comprising a sealing ring (1) and a slide ring (2) wherein the slide ring (2) is provided on the side of the sealing ring (1) that faces the surface to be sealed. The sealing ring (1) and the slide ring (2) are designed in one piece by molding the sealing ring (1) to the slide ring (2) in a mold cavity that forms the slide ring into a cylindrical shape.
Claims2
A procedure for producing a seal comprising:
- in a first step of the procedure, a tubular-shaped section (5) of a polymeric material of a slide ring (2) is placed in an annular tool cavity (6) of a manufacturing tool (7) and held in its position, the tubular-shaped section (5) dividing the annular tool cavity (6) in a radial direction into an annular slide ring cavity (8) and an annular sealing ring cavity (9) that are radially adjacent, and the tubular-shaped section (5) defining a center opening therethrough and comprising an axial width (10) that substantially corresponds to an axial width (11) of the annular tool cavity (6), in that, in a second step of the procedure, elastomeric material is pressed into the annular sealing ring cavity (9) in such a way that the elastomeric material completely fills the annular sealing ring cavity (9) and molds the tubular-shaped section (5) radially into the annular slide ring cavity (8) until the tubular-shaped section (5) comes to rest against an annular wall (12) that delimits the annular slide ring cavity (8), and in that in another step of the procedure the seal is removed from the manufacturing tool (7).
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