Cylinder-head gasket for piston-type internal combustion engines

US4465287A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Elring Dichtungswerke GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Bindel · Waiblingen, DE
• Wilhelm Kullen · Hülben, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 4, 1983
• Grant date: Aug 14, 1984
• Expiry date: May 4, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F05C2203/0808
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

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.