Patents Assigned to Seals-It
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Publication number: 20240141995Abstract: Seal assemblies, gaskets, bearing assemblies, and their components can be used as pre-packaged seal systems and pre-packaged seal and bearing systems. The seal assemblies can be orientated in different configurations for different applications. Gaskets to restrict flow and gaskets with memory lips to operate as sealing lips can be included to increase the number of sealing points. In a pre-packaged configuration, the cylinder can be a straight cylinder, a stepped cylinder, or a split cylinder. Bearing assemblies can be pre-packaged with the sealing assemblies and service grease may optionally be used to provide lubrication and limit fluid incursion into the spring cavities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Bal Seal Engineering, LLCInventors: Miquel Balta, Marc Soriano, Serdar Eren
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Publication number: 20240141996Abstract: Seal assemblies, gaskets, bearing assemblies, and their components can be used as pre-packaged seal systems and pre-packaged seal and bearing systems. The seal assemblies can be orientated in different configurations for different applications. Gaskets or washers to restrict flow and gaskets or washers with memory lips to operate as sealing lips can be included to increase the number of sealing points. In a pre-packaged configuration, the cylinder can be a straight cylinder, a stepped cylinder, or a split cylinder. Bearing assemblies can be pre-packaged with the sealing assemblies and service grease may optionally be used to provide lubrication and limit fluid incursion into the spring cavities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Bal Seal Engineering, LLCInventor: Miquel Balta
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Patent number: 11940049Abstract: Seal assemblies, gaskets, bearing assemblies, and their components can be used as pre-packaged seal systems and pre-packaged seal and bearing systems. The seal assemblies can be orientated in different configurations for different applications. Gaskets to restrict flow and gaskets with memory lips to operate as sealing lips can be included to increase the number of sealing points. In a pre-packaged configuration, the cylinder can be a straight cylinder, a stepped cylinder, or a split cylinder. Bearing assemblies can be pre-packaged with the sealing assemblies and service grease may optionally be used to provide lubrication and limit fluid incursion into the spring cavities.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Bal Seal Engineering, LLCInventors: Miquel Balta, Marc Soriano, Serdar Eren
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Patent number: 11913457Abstract: A magnetic pump comprising: a pump body supporting an output shaft on a wet side of the pump and having an inlet and at least one outlet for pumped fluid; an input drive element on a dry side of the pump, at least one magnet for coupling the input and output shafts such that motion of the input shaft causes motion of the output shaft, a pressure containing structure mounted on the pump body for separating the dry and the wet sides, wherein the pump includes: one or more pathways through which pumped fluid can pass so as to lubricate one or more moving parts within the pressure containing structure, and a monitoring port/channel through which one or more properties of pumped fluid passing through the one or more pathways can be sensed.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HMD Seal/Less Pumps LimitedInventor: David Clark
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Patent number: 11908273Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a playing card system configured to authenticate a playing card for playing a card game. The playing card system comprising a playing card, a playing card authentication device, and a playing card authentication server. The playing card comprises an electronic memory storing authentication data, and a counter.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Seal Network B.V.Inventors: Joris Bastiaan Verschoor, Bart Boris Verschoor
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Patent number: 11874082Abstract: A containment facility for a revolver has first and second opposed cups which embrace and seal against the opposed side faces of a revolver frame. The revolver cylinder resides within an aperture defined by the frame, and the cups enclose the exposed portions of the cylinder. The first cup defines a first internal space and has a first rim configured to conform with the first side face contour of the revolver frame, and encompasses the cylinder aperture with a first portion of the cylinder received in the first internal space. A second cup defines a second internal space and has a second rim similarly configured to conform with the second side face contour of the revolver frame, and encompasses the cylinder aperture with a second portion of the cylinder received in the second internal space. The containment facility includes flexible gaskets between the cup rims and the frame side faces.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: REVOLVER SEAL LLCInventor: Bryce Bigelow
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Patent number: 11858163Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a shrink label for covering a receptacle having a protrusion, from a strip of flexible tubular material, wherein the shrink label has a given length measured from a first end to a second end, being measured in the longitudinal direction of the strip, the method having at least the step of: puncturing the strip to form a puncture being spaced apart from the first end and from the second end, wherein the puncture suits the shape of the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.Inventor: Joop Michael Petrus Peeters
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Publication number: 20230412053Abstract: There is provided a composite oil seal having an electric corrosion prevention function. The composite oil seal includes: a seal main body configured to seal an interior of a motor housing in a state of being mounted to a shaft in the motor housing; and a ground path mounted to the seal main body. The ground path is configured to electrically connect the shaft to the motor housing to allow current induced in the shaft to flow to the motor housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: PYUNGHWA OIL SEAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Taehyung KIM, Eunmin PARK, Jaehyuk SUNG
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Publication number: 20230375087Abstract: An improved bearing or bushing body extraction from a stuffing box using jack screws is provided. The bearing or bushing seal body includes at least one jack screw on each half of a split body. The jack screw passes axially through the sidewall of the body to the inner flange of the stuffing box and turning the jack screw against the inner flange to lift the body from the stuffing box. A single inner threaded or double threaded insert with a reverse outer thread and standard inner thread is inserted into the bottom wall of the body so that the body may be installed flush against the inner flange. By turning the jack screw through the insert and against the flange, the seal body is pushed out rather than pulled.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: SEAL-RYT CORP.Inventors: Thomas B. Monahan, Michael F. Huard
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Patent number: 11814228Abstract: A pouch includes a packaging bag including a front surface sheet, a back surface sheet, a bottom surface sheet, and a top surface sheet and a spout. The packaging bag includes a pair of side seal portions, a front bottom seal portion, a back bottom seal portion, a front top seal portion, and a back top seal portion. At least one of the pair of side seal portions includes a side enclosing portion in which a gas is enclosed, the side enclosing portion having an elongated shape in a height direction. At least one of the front top seal portion or the back top seal portion includes a top enclosing portion in which a gas is enclosed, the top enclosing portion having an elongated shape in a width direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.Inventors: Tadashi Takano, Masahiro Kaminaga, Atsushi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230313637Abstract: A method of abandoning a well, where the well is at least a length of tubing, and a first annulus outside the tubing, comprising the steps of puncturing a hole or holes in the tubing, the holes in the tubing giving access to the first annulus immediately outside the tubing, heating the inside of the tubing, depositing bismuth in proximity to the region inside the tubing which is heated, such that bismuth melts, the quantity of bismuth being sufficient that a first portion of the bismuth remains in the tubing, while a second portion of bismuth flows through the holes in the tubing into the first annulus, where it flows to the non-heated section allowing the bismuth to cool and solidify to form a plug in the tubing and the annulusType: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: PANDA-SEAL INTERNATIONAL LTDInventor: Philip Head
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Patent number: 11767917Abstract: A seal assembly has a first component retained by a retaining member abutting a second component, the first component having a retaining member, the retaining member having a plurality of tabs, the plurality of tabs extending outwardly to engage a surface of the second component, thereby preventing withdrawal of the first component from the second component.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Atlas Seals, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Paul Zitting, Daniel K. Zitting
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Patent number: 11761543Abstract: A labyrinth seal including a stator and a non-contacting rotor, and annular elastomeric seals. The confronting surfaces of the stator and rotor define at least one interface passage, including a radially-outermost annular interface passage between an annular, outermost, radially-extending projection of the stator and an annular rearwardly-extending distal projection of the rotor that overlaps the radially-extending projection of the stator, the radially-outermost annular interface passage tapering outwardly and rearwardly at an acute angle relative to an axial reference line. The annular elastomeric seals are stationary with the stator during dynamic operation of the rotor, and are not contacted by a surface of the rotor during dynamic operation. The interface can also have two radially-disposed exclusion chambers, the outer exclusion chamber being defined in part by a radially-inboard projection of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: ORION ENGINEERED SEALS, LLCInventors: Randall Jaskot, Woodrow Nepa, Todd Brickson
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Patent number: 11746906Abstract: Seal assemblies, gaskets, bearing assemblies, and their components can be used as pre-packaged seal systems and pre-packaged seal and bearing systems. The seal assemblies can be orientated in different configurations for different applications. Gaskets to restrict flow and gaskets with memory lips to operate as sealing lips can be included to increase the number of sealing points. In a pre-packaged configuration, the cylinder can be a straight cylinder, a stepped cylinder, or a split cylinder. Bearing assemblies can be pre-packaged with the sealing assemblies and service grease may optionally be used to provide lubrication and limit fluid incursion into the spring cavities.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Bal Seal Engineering, LLCInventors: Miquel Balta, Marc Soriano, Serdar Eren
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Patent number: 11739653Abstract: A circumferential seal assembly for use between a higher pressure side and a lower pressure side is presented. The seal assembly includes a primary sealing ring, a second sealing ring, a third sealing ring, and an insert. The primary sealing ring sealingly engages both a face sealing surface along a housing and a radial sealing surface along a rotatable element. The primary sealing ring, the second sealing ring, and the third sealing ring cooperate, in combination with the housing, the rotatable element, and/or the insert, both to define and to separate a first cavity at the higher pressure side and a second cavity at the lower pressure side. In some embodiments, the second sealing ring sealingly engages a face of the primary sealing ring. In other embodiments, the second sealing ring sealingly engages a circumferential surface of the primary sealing ring.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Stein Seal CompanyInventor: Glenn M. Garrison
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Patent number: 11739843Abstract: An improved bearing or bushing body extraction from a stuffing box using jack screws is provided. The bearing or bushing seal body includes at least one jack screw on each half of a split body. The jack screw passes axially through the sidewall of the body to the inner flange of the stuffing box and turning the jack screw against the inner flange to lift the body from the stuffing box. A single inner threaded or double threaded insert with a reverse outer thread and standard inner thread is inserted into the bottom wall of the body so that the body may be installed flush against the inner flange. By turning the jack screw through the insert and against the flange, the seal body is pushed out rather than pulled.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SEAL-RYT CORP.Inventors: Thomas B. Monahan, Michael F. Huard
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Patent number: 11732753Abstract: A circumferential seal assembly suitable for forming a thin film between a rotatable runner and a sealing ring is presented. The assembly includes an annular seal housing, a rotatable runner, an annular seal ring, and a plurality of groove structures. Each groove structure includes a groove and an optional feed groove. The groove includes at least two adjoining steps defined by base walls arranged to decrease depthwise. Two adjoining base walls are disposed about a base shoulder. Each base shoulder locally redirects a longitudinal flow to form an outward radial flow in the direction of the annular seal ring. The base walls are bounded by and intersect a pair of side walls. A side wall includes side shoulders which narrows the groove widthwise and locally redirects the longitudinal flow to form a lateral flow in the direction of the other side wall. Outward and lateral flows separately or in combination enhance stiffness of a thin-film layer between the annular seal ring and the rotatable runner.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Stein Seal CompanyInventor: Glenn M. Garrison
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Patent number: 11725588Abstract: An intershaft seal assembly for use between a rotatable outer structure and an inner structure within a turbine engine is presented. The assembly includes a primary sealing ring, a translatable carrier, a secondary sealing ring(s), a lower-pressure chamber, a higher-pressure chamber, a first channel(s), and a second channel(s). The primary ring is disposed within and extends from a circumferential groove about the carrier so as to sealingly engage the rotatable outer structure. The primary ring rotates within the groove and with the rotatable outer structure. Each secondary ring is interposed between the carrier and the inner structure. The carrier slidingly contacts the secondary ring(s). The lower-pressure chamber is generally defined by the carrier and the inner structure adjacent to a higher-pressure side. The higher-pressure chamber is generally defined by the carrier and the inner structure adjacent to a lower-pressure side.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Stein Seal CompanyInventor: Glenn M. Garrison
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Publication number: 20230243427Abstract: A fluid sealing system for a rotary mechanical device including a pillar lantern ring having a bottom and a top end cap with pillars or columns connecting the end caps is formed by additive manufacturing. The bottom annular end cap has an outside face and an opposed inside face defining a height therebetween and the upper annular end cap has an inside face and an opposed outside face defining a height therebetween with a plurality of integrally formed substantially cylindrical axial columns connecting the two opposed inside faces of the two end caps.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: SEAL-RYT CORP.Inventors: MARK R. WILKINSON, THOMAS B. MONAHAN
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Patent number: 11713172Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To prevent delamination of a film layer in a sheet material container in which an enclosing portion is formed in an interlayer between a first film layer and a second film layer. [Solution] A sheet material container includes a container body 6, and an inner container 7 that is covered by the container body 6 and defines an accommodation space, wherein the container body 6 is formed of a sheet material 3 including a first film layer 1 and a second film layer 2 disposed inside the first film layer 1, the sheet material 3 has a joint portion 32 at which an interlayer between the first film layer 1 and the second film layer 2 is joined and an enclosing portion 51 in which a filler can be enclosed in the interlayer between the first film layer 1 and the second film layer 2, and the first film layer 1 has an extruded multilayer structural part having a polyolefin resin layer 11/an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin layer 12 on a side facing the enclosing portion 51.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Kodama, Takahiro Otsuka, Atsushi Yamamoto