Peripheral sealing arrangement

US9169874B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• IMO HOLDING GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Willaczek · Hemhofen, DE
• Henrik Albertsen · Lunderskov, DK

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 27, 2015
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/72
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A sealing arrangement comprising a one-piece, peripheral, elastomeric sealing material for sealing a sealing space, the material containing a bearing-side sealing region and inserted between at least one outer rotatable bearing component and, mutually rotatable about the same center axis, at least one inner rotatable bearing component of a rotary joint, wherein the sealing arrangement is form-lockingly and force-lockingly connected in a detachable and replaceable manner to a structure, namely (I) to a plunge cut in a surface parallel to a horizontal outer surface of one of the inner and outer rotatable bearing components, and (II) to a projecting material protrusion with a bottom surface which is disposed on the bearing side of this material protrusion, as an integral part of the inner or outer rotatable bearing component.