Abstract: A cylinder head gasket having at least one plate of soft material and at least one combustion chamber opening, said soft material including predominantly inorganic fibers and/or filling materials connected by binding means and including free OH groups, the soft material is mixed with a first impregnating material comprising a polysiloxane containing reactive hydrogen groups for reaction with the free OH groups of the fibers or filling materials and a second impregnating material which consists of a second polysiloxane of a higher degree of polymerization than the first polysiloxane and which polymerizes with itself as well as with the reactive hydrogen groups of the first polysiloxane, said second polysiloxane forming a stable siloxane structure having more branches than the first polysiloxane.

Abstract: A cylinder head gasket having at least one plate of soft material and at least one combustion chamber opening, said soft material including predominantly inorganic fibers and/or filling materials connected by binding means and including free OH groups, the soft material is mixed with a first impregnating material comprising a polysiloxane containing reactive hydrogen groups for reaction with the free OH groups of the fibers or filling materials and a second impregnating material which consists of a second polysiloxane of a higher degree of polymerization than the first polysiloxane and which polymerizes with itself as well as with the reactive hydrogen groups of the first polysiloxane, said second polysiloxane forming a stable siloxane structure having more branches than the first polysiloxane.

Abstract: In a cylinder-head gasket defining a sealing plane, and including at least a soft sheet of material made of a highly elastic layer of graphite, and formed with an opening serving as a fuel chamber passage, and wherein a sheet metal collar covers a rim of the layer bordering said opening, the improvement includes the sheet metal collar forming a single flange extending for the greater part thereof parallel to the sealing plane, and terminating near the edge of the said rim facing away from the said sealing plane.