Abstract: During production of laser diodes, crystals on which the laser diodes are formed are subjected to two high temperature processes: diffusion and alloying. These steps are performed in a quartz process tube in an oxygen free atmosphere. At some stage in the process the crystal must be moved from a cool zone to a hot zone within the tube and this is done by means of a push rod which extends through an aperture in the diffusion tube. The conventional arrangement for sealing around the push rod acts to clamp the push rod in position. Thus, temporarily, while the push rod is being moved the seal must be partly released and its sealing action is inferior. To maintain the process atomsphere free of reactive gas there is proposed by the invention a mechanism for flooding the sealing area between the push rod and the process tube with an inert gas while the sealing means is temporarily released.

Abstract: A molded resilient ring seal with support rings mold bonded or bonded and connected to both ends.The molded resilient material portion of the seal utilizes unique contouring to reduce internal resilient material stresses during use, enabling the seal to seal higher pressures at elevated temperatures for longer periods of time.A number of support ring configurations are also disclosed, which further enhance sealing ability of the resilient material.

Abstract: The invention relates to an outboard sterntube seal, for the oil-lubricated propeller shaft bearings of a ship, which is equipped with a water-side seal and an oil-side seal separated by a cavity provided with a drain duct leading into the interior of the ship to permit monitoring of the seal. Both the water-side seal and the oil-side seal are in the form of rotating mechanical seals which each include a slipring and a counterring, the oil-side seal being designed in such a manner that in the event of failure of the water-side seal the sealing surface of the oil-side slipring is loaded additionally in its direction of closure through a retaining ring by the water pressure prevailing in the cavity. The sterntube seal is also equipped with additional elements that elastically accommodate movement of the shaft and seal the cavity against oil and water. The sliprings and counterrings of the rotating mechanical seals each have at least two independently removable and circumferentially extending parts.

Abstract: A socket seal for a tubular member defining a socket having an open end delimited by a free edge, an inner wall extending from the free edge and a base remote from the open end, and into the open end of which socket a further member is to be inserted to form a sealed connection, the seal being composed of a sealing ring made of an elastomer material and including a holding portion embedded in the tubular member in the region of the outer edge of the socket, a band-shaped fastening portion joined to the holding portion, and a sealing portion joined to the fastening portion and having a configuration such that it has a greater thickness at a point spaced from the fastening portion than at the location where it is joined to the fastening portion.

Abstract: A plug means for effecting a temporary blockage of a passage through which liquid is designed to flow. The subject plug means includes a frame means capable of being readily disassembled and embodying in the assembled state dimensions corresponding to the cross-sectional dimensions of the passage in which the plug means is to be employed, and inflatable means mountable on the frame means and co-operable therewith for providing a liquid tight seal in the passage. The frame means comprises a frame member including a plurality of readily interconnectable sections of plate, the latter each possessing a high strength-to-weight ratio; interconnecting means for effecting the interconnection of the plurality of plate sections; and securing means cooperable with means provided in the side walls of the passage for securing the frame means and thereby the plug means in the passage in blocking relation thereto.

Abstract: A mechanical member employs an inclined ring body having a frustoconical profile and comprising a multiplicity of tough and elastic, inclined ring elements each individually having a frustoconical profile and formed with a centrally located opening for slidably accepting therethrough a first member which is cylindrical and an outer peripheral edge adapted for engagement with a second member. The ring element has a plurality of outer slits extending radially inwardly from the outer peripheral edge towards the centrally located opening and a plurality of inner slits extending radially outwardly from the edge defining the centrally located opening towards the outer peripheral edge. An inclination adjusting member is carried by one of the first and second members so as to maintain a bearing contact with the inclined ring body and adapted to be displaced on the one member to change a given angle of the frustocone, thereby regulating the state of engagement of the ring body with the first and second members.

Abstract: An apparatus for sealing a joint between two substantially collinear tubes (12,14) is provided. Particularly useful for repairing a welded joint which has developed a crack (20) in the area of the weld (18), the apparatus provides a sleeve (26) which fits closely over the cracked joint. A housing (32), surrounding the sleeve (26), and a thrust ring (38) act to compress packing rings (28,30) against the sleeve to form a fluid-tight seal over the leaking joint. The sealing nut (40) maintains compression on the packing rings (28,30) when the installation apparatus (50,60,70) is removed. A method for installing the sealing apparatus is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: An improved honeycomb seal is provided for turbine engines. The subject honeycomb structure comprises a plurality of identical rings. Each ring has a plurality of radially extending convolutions defining alternating ridges and valleys. The rings are fixedly arranged in abutting relationship to define a tubular honeycomb structure having an array of radially extending honeycomb cells. The resultant honeycomb structure is adaptable to both large and small diameter turbine engines. Furthermore, the individual cells of the honeycomb structure can be constructed to any width or depth.

Abstract: To facilitate cleanout of a sewer a guide member is located with a manhole to guide a cleanout tool into the sewer. The sewer is downwardly inclined adjacent the manhole so that the inlet enters at a location below the outlet and a predetermined level of liquid is maintained in the manhole. The guide member comprises a base with a pair of upstanding wings that project above the predetermined level to present a pair of guide members for the insertion of the cleanout tool.

Abstract: Disclosed is a piston ring assembly for an automotive internal combustion engine, including a first compression ring having double-stepped mating ends for reducing the quantity of blow-by gas, and a second compression ring which is constructed in the form of a double-ring structure adapted for reducing the quantity of oil consumption.

Abstract: A bushing seal is disclosed for sealing a rotary member and having a face portion which engages a stationary housing and the pressure of a sealing fluid admitted to the bushing urges the face portion against the housing with a force sufficient to prevent freezing of the bushing when the pressure of the sealing fluid is high. A valve is provided for bleeding sealing fluid from a side of the bushing opposite a side against which the sealing fluid is exerting pressure. The valve permits variable flow rate of sealing fluid to atmosphere with the flow rate an inverse function of the pressure of the sealing fluid. By bleeding off fluid, the valve causes a pressure drop across the bushing with the sealing fluid urging the bushing against the housing with an additional force sufficient to prevent subsynchronous whirl when the pressure of the sealing fluid is low.

Abstract: A slip spline assembly includes a splined stub shaft slidably received in a splined bore of a yoke member. A sealing plug is provided at one end of the yoke bore to maintain lubricant on the splines and prevent ingress of foreign matter. A plurality of resilient fingers on the plug snap into an annular groove formed in the yoke bore to positively retain the plug. A vent opening in the plug relieves pressure in the closed end of the yoke when the splined shaft slides toward the yoke closed end.

Abstract: An inflatable packer assembly includes a cylindrical mandrel with a cylindrical valve body concentrically disposed about the mandrel. The valve body includes an inlet communicating with an interior of the mandrel and an outlet for directing fluid to an inflatable element of the packer assembly. First and second axial bores, containing first and second pistons, respectively, are disposed in said valve body and communicate with an end surface thereof. The first bore also communicates with said inlet. A first port connects the first and second bores. A second port connects the second bore and the outlet. The first piston which includes a check valve is held in a first position blocking said first port until a pressure differential across the first piston reaches a first level at which the first piston is released and is moved to a second position allowing fluid communication between the inlet and the first port.

Abstract: An improved sealing sleeve for the rotating drive shaft of a gear pump or other fluid conveying system has an internal axial bore for receiving the shaft, an intermediate cavity formed in the bore and oppositely-handed helical channels extending in the bore on opposite sides of the cavity. The inward helical channels are of a hand relative to the shaft rotation for effectively pumping viscous fluid entering the annular spacing between the shaft and sleeve toward the cavity while the oppositely-handed outward helical channels effectively resist and overcome such pumped fluid flow, creating a static containment of the viscous fluid to produce a viscous seal about the shaft. Cooling fluid is conveyed through an annular passageway about the outward helical channels to solidify any viscous fluid entering the adjacent region of the outward channels to produce an outward essentially mechanical seal about the shaft.

Abstract: A flat seal with at least one aperture through which flows a medium to be sealed, particularly for use in the exhaust gas lines of internal combustion engines which are operated at high exhaust gas temperatures; the flat seal thereby consists of a sheet metal member with a coating of a material on the basis of a synthetic fluorine compound and includes at the edge of the aperture a circumferential S-shaped double-corrugation.

Abstract: A sealing arrangement for a hydraulic device includes two sliding seals, one on a wing member attached to a shaft to slidingly ride against the inside wall of a chamber, and the other on a stop member attached to the chamber wall to ride against the shaft. Each member includes a groove containing a U-shaped slider and a U-shaped resilient seal, the seal being between the slider and the bottom of the groove to urge the slider outwardly. Each seal has a projection at the ends of the legs on which the ends of the slider legs rest. The seal on the stop member has a connecting link.

Abstract: In a liquid packing, the inlet pressure of the sealing liquid is substantially increased above the gas pressure at the high pressure side, by means of a centrifugal packing which is enclosed at both sides by an annular floating body and provided, at both sides, with flow passages and, radially farther, with annular flanges to obtain a safe seal. Check valves opening at a definite intermediate pressure effect a flow of the sealing liquid through the high pressure-side sealing gap between the shaft packing and the floating body and passages in the floating body, to mix it with the supplied sealing liquid, whereby the friction heat produced in the sealing gap is removed to a large extent.

Abstract: A sealing boot of elastomeric material for hermetically enclosing an annular opening between a support member and a movable member axially reciprocable on the support member, the sealing boot including a tubular bellows which is integrally formed at one end thereof with a first cylindrical sealing sleeve portion coupled over the support member and at the other end thereof with a second cylindrical sealing sleeve portion coupled within the movable member, the sealing boot being characterized in that the first cylindrical sealing sleeve portion being connected substantially at its center to the one end of the tubular bellows and being formed at its inner end shoulder with an annular thick wall tapering radially toward the inner wall surface of the tubular bellows.

Abstract: A sealing device in a transmission with pressure-medium controlled, continuously variable gear ratio for sealing a pressure medium connection between a channel in the transmission housing and a central, axial bore in a pulley shaft rotating in the housing consists of two concentric sleeves with slide surfaces of fine surface finish. One end of the inner sleeve is pressed into the housing channel and is sealed against its wall by means of a sealing ring. The outer sleeve is divided into a shorter portion of large outer diameter with a longer portion of smaller outer diameter. The shorter portion is fitted into the shaft bore and is sealed against the wall of the bore with a sealing ring, there being a space between the wall of the bore and the longer portion.

Abstract: A unitary seal comprises an annular support section formed of a rigid polycarbonate plastic and an annular sealing section formed of a flexible polyurethane elastomer. The support and sealing sections are directly bonded together without the use of an adhesive therebetween to form a unitary seal. The sealing section has an annular lip extending from one side of the support section and adapted for sealing engagement with a member.