Sealing devices for rotating members

专利名称：Sealing devices for rotating members发明人：TURPIN GEOFFREY EDGAR申请号：US63536657申请日：19570122公开号：US2939730A公开日：19600607

摘要：802,386. Stuffing-box substitutes. STEEL CO. OF WALES, Ltd. Jan. 10, 1957 [Oct.12, 1956], No. 31187/56. Class 122 (5). A sealing device for preventing the passage of fluidunder pressure through an opening 5, Fig. 1, in a wall 4 through which a rotary shaft 1extends comprises an expansible annular bellows 11 which surrounds the shaft on theside of the wall remote from the fluid and has radial end walls 15, 16 connected at theirouter edges by a flexible external wall 18, the arrangement being such that fluid passingthrough the opening to the bellows causes one or both end walls 15, 16 to move axiallyand so exert a sealing effect. The bellows shown in Fig. 1 has two corrugations formed byan encircling ring 19 and is supported between two rigid discs 24, 26. An axially-extendingflange 20 on the end wall 15 has a lip 12 for engaging a shoulder 6 in the opening 5; acorrosion-resistant covering 7 is provided on the wall. The inner end of the disc 26 isformed to provide a sealing face 13 to co-operate with a carbon collar 14 which isclamped inside a Z-section deformable ring 31 itself clamped on the shaft. The shaft iscentred in the opening 5 by a bush 21 having a clearance space 23 through which fluidpasses to the interior of the bellows through apertures 30 in a ring 29 serving to preventcollapse of the bellows; the fluid pressure in the bellows moves both end walls 15, 16 soas to cause the lip 12 to seal against the shoulder 6 and the face 13 to seal against the

collar 14; the axial flange 20 on the wall 15 is also urged radially so as to force the lipagainst the opening 5. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2, the bellows 41 is secured by aband-clip 48 to the shaft 1 to rotate therewith and carries a carbon collar 44, secured bya band-clip 57, within an axial flange 53 of the bellows. The contact face 59 of the collar44 bears on the face 60 of a wedge-shaped ring 43 which engages an O-ring 42 disposedin the operiing 5. Fluid passes to the interior of the bellows through a clearance in thering 43; grooves 52 are provided in the face of a stop flange 51 on the bellows to admitfluid to the latter in the event of this face being in contact with the opposite end wall ofthe bellows. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, the bellows 71 has an axial flange 77 heldin sliding engagement with the opening 5 by a bush 81 having a conical face 82 whichengages a lip 72 formed on the flange 77. A sealing ring 73 is secured within a recess in asecond flange 88 of the bellows by a band-clip and fluid pressure in the bellowsmoves it axially into sealing engagement with a ring 74 which is clamped on the shaft by aresilient Z-shaped member 92, secured to the shaft by a band clip 96. The sides 75, 76 ofthe bellows are reinforced by discs 78, 86, situated in grooves 79, 87 in the flanges 77, 88.In each embodiment, the parts exposed to contact with the fluid to be sealed are madeof corrosion resistant material and the shaft 1 may be coated with similar material.

申请人：THE STEEL COMPANY OF WALES LIMITED

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