Elringklinger Ag

Elring Dichtungswerke Gmbh

Karl Schmauder

Armin Diez

Wolfgang Fritz

Tobias Michael Gruhler

Cylinder head gasket with a gasket plate having at least one combustion chamber opening and comprising at least two sheet metal layers, a first one of which is provided with at least one bead which is elastically deformable in its height and encloses the combustion chamber opening, and a second one of which is provided with at least one deformation delimiting device delimiting deformation of the bead and surrounding the combustion chamber opening; in order to achieve as rigid a delimitation of the deformation as possible, the original second sheet metal layer is formed by a steel sheet which is plastically deformable by cold flow pressing, and in a plan view of the second sheet metal layer the deformation delimiting device forms a two-dimensional pattern of discrete, cup-like depressions, with the total volume of the depressions stamped by flow pressing being approximately equal to the total volume of the elevations formed by the material of the second sheet metal layer that is displaced during the stamping of the depressions.

At least substantially metallic cylinder head gasket

Screen printing stencil for making sealing layers of elastomer material on a flat gasket. A screen carrying a photoresist layer exhibits areas of increased height on the side with which it is made to contact the flat gasket, in order to simultaneously produce sealing layer areas of different thicknesses. To make such a screen printing stencil, its screen is first provided with a first photoresist layer in which areas are then delimited by means of adhesive tapes, following which these areas may be coated with a second photoresist layer. The desired screen printing stencil is then obtained by both photoresist layers being jointly exposed and the non-exposed areas of the photoresist material being washed out.

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Hülben, Germany

Karl Schmauder