Abstract: To create a housing cover for fixing to a housing, wherein the housing cover is provided with a plurality of fastening means through openings and with a sealing bead that comprises an elastomeric material, and wherein the sealing bead is arranged on a seal support face of the housing cover, in which housing cover the course of the sealing bead can be more freely designed and, in particular, laid closer to the fastening means through-openings of the housing cover and which, in particular, is producible from a relatively thin starting material, it is proposed that the housing cover comprises at least one deformation limiting element, which projects over the seal support face in the same direction as the sealing bead and limits a deformation of the sealing bead in the assembled state of the housing cover, wherein the deformation limiting element comprises a bending region in which the material of the deformation limiting element is bent out of a reference plane extending substantially in parallel to the seal sup

Abstract: To create a housing cover for fixing to a housing, wherein the housing cover is provided with a plurality of fastening means through openings and with a sealing bead that comprises an elastomeric material, and wherein the sealing bead is arranged on a seal support face of the housing cover, in which housing cover the course of the sealing bead can be more freely designed and, in particular, laid closer to the fastening means through-openings of the housing cover and which, in particular, is producible from a sheet-shaped starting material, it is proposed that the housing cover comprises at least one deformation limiting element, which projects over the seal support face in the same direction as the sealing bead and limits a deformation of the sealing bead in the assembled state of the housing cover, wherein the deformation limiting element comprises at least one fastening means through-opening portion that extends along a circumferential direction of one of the fastening means through-openings over a circumfe

Abstract: Method for producing a functional element, in particular for flat seals, wherein a functional layer with at least one screen region is formed in which through openings for the passage of a fluid lie exposed between threads of a woven or braided fabric, wherein the functional layer is provided with at least one sealing region surrounding at least the screen region, in which sealing region sealing material layers are applied thereon to both sides of the woven or braided fabric, said sealing material layers forming a cross-sectionally impermeable layer assembly with the woven or braided fabric at least with an areal application of 5 MPa or more.

Abstract: Method for producing a functional element, in particular for flat seals, wherein a functional layer with at least one screen region is formed in which through openings for the passage of a fluid lie exposed between threads of a woven or braided fabric, wherein the functional layer is provided with at least one sealing region surrounding at least the screen region, in which sealing region sealing material layers are applied thereon to both sides of the woven or braided fabric, said sealing material layers forming a cross-sectionally impermeable layer assembly with the woven or braided fabric at least with an areal application of 5 MPa or more.

Abstract: Sleeve for pre-assembly of a flat gasket on a sealing surface of a machine component having a hole for insertion of the sleeve therein, the flat gasket having a hole for passage of the sleeve therethrough, and the one, first end area of the sleeve being elastically compressible in order to reduce its outer diameter; in order to make pre-assembly of a flat gasket on a machine component as simple as possible, the sleeve has stops on the outer circumference of its first end area, which act in both directions of the sleeve axis to hold the sleeve on the gasket plate in an axial position predetermined by the stops, and the sleeve is also of such configuration at its outer circumference that insertion of the sleeve in the hole of the machine component results in a frictionally engaged and/or positively locked connection between the machine component and the sleeve.

Abstract: Sealing material for application to a sealing surface of a gasket and/or a machine component, wherein problems with respect to the portioning and handling of the sealing material are avoided in that the sealing material has the form of a capsule filled with a fluid to pasty sealing substance and having a capsule wall bursting under the influence of pressure and the sealing substance can be hardened in situ under operating conditions.