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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1981
Robert L Benton, Bay City, MI (US);
Dainis O Martinsons, Saginaw, MI (US);
Flave F Stimpson, Saginaw, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A seal and scraper assembly for a nut and screw actuator has an elastomeric member bonded to a metal ring. The elastomeric member has an annular lip outer portion and a helical thread form inner portion. The inner portion has a plurality of scraper or wiper surfaces interrupting the thread form at an oblique angle and cooperating with a lubricant return surface to direct lubricant, scraped from the screw thread surface, into the housing enclosing the nut and screw actuator. A web portion extends between the outer lip and the inner thread form along the same angle as each scraper surface so that a component of the assembly forces on the outer lip portion are transmitted to the scraper surface so as to increase the thread sealing and scraping forces. The metal ring has a contoured inner surface which is effective to chip ice and other foreign matter from the screw thread outboard of the elastomeric member and a pair of radially extending lugs which cooperate with recesses formed in the nut to prevent relative rotation between the nut and the seal and scraper assembly.