Seal for pipe to wall junctions

• US 5,029,879 A
• Filed: 02/28/1990
• Issued: 07/09/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Injection Plastics & Manufacturing Co Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Injection Plastics & Manufacturing Co Incorporated
• Inventors: Strang, Robert E. Jr., Strang, Robert E. Sr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cummings, Scott
• Application Number:
  US07/490,496
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 277/4, 277/137, 277/189, 277/207 A, 277/208, 277/212 C, 277/212 F, 277/178, 285/80, 285/98, 285/110, 285/112, 285/113, 285/158, 285/921
• US Class Current: 277/606
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 41/088 fixed using an elastic grommet between the extremity of the tube and the wall

Abstract

An improved seal at the junction of a pipe or tube to an opening formed in a flat wall or in the wall of a cylindrical or rounded container, including axially tapered exterior and interior peripheral surfaces. The tapers of such surfaces being different one from the other and being of such a degree that, when the seal is inserted into the opening in the receiving member and the pipe is inserted therethrough, the material from which such seal is fabricated is forced to bulge around the periphery of the opening, thereby securing the pipe in the opening and perfecting the seal therebetween.

Claims

1. An improved seal for securing the junction between a pipe having an outer diameter and a walled receiving member having an opening therein, said seal being of a resilient material and of a ring-like form having inner and outer peripheries and foremost and rearmost end parts, said seal inner periphery having a radially inwardly tapered end portion at the rearmost end part of the seal, said seal including lip means at said foremost end part for abutting said receiving member at the innermost face of said lip means, said seal outer periphery at the plane of said lip means innermost face having a diameter approximating the diameter of said opening in the receiving member, said seal inner periphery extending forwardly of said lip means innermost face plane having a diameter at least approximating the outer diameter of said pipe, the improvement wherein:

said seal inner periphery having a radially inwardly tapered middle portion extending in an axial direction from a plane of said lip means innermost face to said inwardly tapered end portion and constituting means providing for the stretching of said seal along said tapered middle portion in the direction of movement of said pipe during insertion of the pipe into the tapered middle portion from said seal foremost end with the seal positioned in said receiving member opening, said seal outer periphery having a radially inwardly tapered portion extending in an axial direction from said lip means innermost face plane toward said rearmost end part of the seal and constituting means providing for the stretching of said seal along said tapered middle portion during insertion of said pipe into the tapered middle portion of the seal, said tapered end portion having a diameter less than the diameter of said pipe in constituting means when expanded by the pipe for overlapping said receiving member.

2. The seal of claim 1 and an external flange at the rearmost end part of the seal.

3. The seal of claim 2 wherein said external flange is of a diameter slightly greater than the diameter of said receiving member opening.

4. The seal of claim 1 wherein said seal outer periphery tapered portion is tapered at an angle which is one half of the angle of taper of said seal inner periphery tapered middle portion.

5. The seal of claim 4 wherein said seal outer periphery tapered portion is tapered at approximately 3°

and said seal inner periphery tapered middle portion is tapered at approximately 6°

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6. The seal of claim 5 wherein the angle of taper of said seal outer periphery tapered portion is approximately 11 degrees.

7. The seal of claim 1 wherein said seal inner periphery tapered middle portion has a length at least equal to the thickness of the receiving member at said opening therein.

8. The seal of claim 7 wherein said seal inner periphery includes a radially inwardly tapered portion between the outermost face of said lip means and said tapered middle portion, the minimum diameter of said last mentioned tapered portion exceeding the diameter of said pipe.