The Bentley-Harris Manufacturing Company

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Raychem Limited

James D Moyer

Thomas B Conaghan

J Sellers Kite

John K Neuhauser

Woven tubular gaskets for sealing the space between an oven and oven door in a self-cleaning oven. A clip for securing an oven gasket to a surface on an oven comprises a shoulder for interfacing to the surface on the oven and securing the gasket to the surface, a first retaining member integrally formed on a first side of the shoulder for efficiently retaining the clip on the gasket, and a second retaining member integrally formed on a second side of the shoulder for further fixedly retaining the clip to the gasket. Oven gaskets described and claimed herein economically and efficiently seal the space between two surfaces and reduce the number of attaching clips necessary to securedly fix the gasket to the oven by providing mounting of the clips through a braided fiberglass sleeve and a knitted wire bulb of the gasket.

Gaskets for sealing a space between surfaces and clips for mounting

A manner of mounting a roll-type gasket in a corner of a door, particularly a door of a self-cleaning oven. The gasket is mounted within a corner of the inner wall of the door and when the door closes, the gasket is compressed so as to roll the gasket towards a normal wall of such corner if it is restrained against movement on the associated peripheral part forming another part of such corner. The gasket is retained within the corner by utilizing pointed anchoring tabs or clips which have their points facing the normal wall so as to effect such a rolling action of the gasket when the door is closed. The gasket may be retained in place by single anchoring tabs, sets of anchoring tabs or by separately formed anchoring tabs.

Mounting of door gasket

Tubular sleeves formed from elongated flat sheets, particularly braided sheets are disclosed. Sheet material comprised of interlaced monofilaments is cold worked by the process of drawing the interlaced monofilaments over a forming edge with sufficient force and in a direction causing permanent elongation of the molecules of material on one side of the interlaced monofilaments. The cold worked monofilaments impart a permanent bias to the sheet causing it to curl about its longitudinal axis. Sleeves so formed may be slipped over or wrapped around bundles of wires or other elongated substrates, particularly those which include terminals, plugs and connectors of irregular dimension.

Protective fabric sleeves

A wraparound closure device which includes an axially compressible, radially expansible tube which is made from a fabric of engineered plastic. The tube may be braided on a circular or flat braider. If braided as a tube it is axially split to define a first and a second mating edge. Fastening means are sewn to the mating edges for selectively opening and closing the tube. The fastening means is fixed in length and thereby when it is connected to the tubular member, the tubular member is also fixed in length. However, the tubular member remains radially variable and expands and contracts to adapt to the shape of a substrate to be enclosed.

Wraparound closure device

A device and method to prevent delamination at load-bearing apertures in structural composite substrates is disclosed. The device is a composite reinforcing grommet having a hollow, generally tubular member of braided filaments impregnated with polymer. The member may be radially deformed for insertion into an aperture in a structural composite substrate and is then capable of being radially expanded to form flanges to secure the structural composite between the flanges. A method of reinforcing a substrate having an aperture therethrough including the step of cobonding a composite reinforcing grommet to a structural composite substrate is also disclosed.

Method of using composite reinforced grommet

This invention provides a woven tubular gasket having a continuous integral attachment means which is contained within the woven tubular members and which has protrusions which extend through or are extendable through the walls of the woven tubular member or members and are adapted to engage openings in an appropriate surface or substrate on which the gasket is to be attached. The method of this invention provides for continuously forming the combination of the attachment means and the woven tubular member. The attachment means is fed continuously into the interior of the woven tubular member as it is formed to thereby incorporate the attachment means into the interior of the woven tubular member.

Woven tubular gasket with continuous integral attachment means

A braider carrier for wide ribbon and/or composite strand is disclosed. The braider carrier guide pulley assembly includes a support, a pulley frame operatively, pivotly mounted to the support, a generally cylindrical guide pulley operatively, rotatably mounted to the pulley frame to accommodate movement of the carrier during the braiding operation, openings through the support and pulley frame at the point of pivot and aligned with the guide pulley, a delivery eye operatively connected to the pulley frame, the eye and the openings capable of holding strand to be braided against the cylindrical surface of the pulley preventing the strand to be braided from twisting during the braiding operation which pivots the pulley frame. The braider carrier bobbin assembly utilizes a magnetic clutch and a torsion spring, the spring capable of providing slack control of strand to be braided and the clutch capable of providing tensioned feed of strand as strand is wound off of the bobbin. In lieu of the braider carrier guide pulley assembly, there may be inserted a twist compensator article.

Braider carrier

A braider carrier for wide ribbon and/or composite strand is disclosed. The braider carrier guide pulley assembly includes a support, a pulley frame operatively, pivotly mounted to the support, a generally cylindrical guide pulley operatively, rotatably mounted to the pulley frame to accomodate movement of the carrier during the braiding operation, openings through the support and pulley frame at the point of pivot and aligned with the guide pulley, a delivery eye operatively connected to the pulley frame, the eye and the openings capable of holding strand to be braided against the cylindrical surface of the pulley preventing the strand to be braided from twisting during the braiding operation which pivots the pulley frame. The braider carrier bobbin assembly utilizes a magnetic clutch and a torsion spring, the spring capable of providing slack control of strand to be braided and the clutch capable of providing tensioned feed of strand as strand is wound off of the bobbin.

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Downingtown, PA, United States of America

James D Moyer