Resealable seals and docking systems containing these seals

US8060992B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GEA Pharma Systems Limited · CH

Inventors

• Martin Koch · Neuenbürg, DE
• Ed Piepereit · Evesham, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 21, 2005
• Grant date: Nov 22, 2011
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T24/45152
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A docking seal system has a first flexible enclosure with a first coupling seal and a second flexible enclosure with a second coupling seal. Each of the coupling seals has first and second sealing strips. A first zip slide is engageable with the first and second sealing strips of the first coupling seal and a second zip slide is engageable with the first and second sealing strips of the second coupling seal so that the respective first and second coupling seals can be opened and closed. The first and second zip slides are each combined with a respective portion of a coupling slide to form respective combined slides. When the combined slides are combined together, the respective portions of the coupling slides mate together to form the coupling slide, the coupling slide engaging or disengaging the first and second coupling seals so as to dock or separate the first and second flexible enclosures from one another.