Paul Francis Hailey

US Patent:

20130049307, Feb 28, 2013

Filed:

Aug 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/221232

Inventors:

Olivier Jeanne - Saint Junien, FR
Romain Faure - Couzeix, FR
Paul F. Hailey - Bedford NH, US

Assignee:

FREUDENBERG-NOK GENERAL PARTNERSHIP - Plymouth MI

International Classification:

F16J 15/02

US Classification:

277632

Abstract:

A gasket is provided including a plurality of corner sections each having a cross-section having a width of at least a first dimension. A plurality of deformable sections are disposed between a pair of the plurality of corner sections, each of the plurality of deformable sections have a plurality of reduced width segments. The plurality of deformable sections have a curved shaped that is deformable to a straight shape in its installed condition, wherein the deformable sections allow the gasket to be formed with a smaller molding footprint than the assembled gasket shape and the plurality of corner sections have a same angled orientation in its installed and un-installed molded positions.

US Patent:

20130049308, Feb 28, 2013

Filed:

Aug 30, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/220994

Inventors:

Daniel Raillard - Chamboret, FR
Paul F. Hailey - Bedford NH, US

Assignee:

FREUDENBERG-NOK GENERAL PARTNERSHIP - Plymouth MI

International Classification:

F16J 15/02

US Classification:

277640, 277644, 277648, 277647

Abstract:

A gasket includes a plurality of corner sections each having a cross-section having a width of at least a first dimension. A plurality of deformable sections are disposed between a pair of the plurality of corner sections, each of the plurality of deformable sections having a cross-section having a width less than the first dimension and having a curved shape that is deformable to a straight shape in its installed condition. The deformable sections allow the gasket to be formed with a smaller molding footprint than the assembled gasket shape and the plurality of corner sections have a same angled orientation in its installed and un-installed positions.