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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary J Novak, Indian Head Park, IL (US);
Mark Adelizzi, Wheeling, IL (US);
Assignee:
Fel-Pro Incorporated, Skokie, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
277312 ; 277598 ; 277630 ; 277924 ;
Abstract
A method of making an expandable metal gasket by forming an expandable core and spreading the core to an open condition with a parallelogram linkage tool, an expandable gasket body, and an expandable gasket precursor. The application also discloses a method of making a semi-rigid gasket having elastomeric bridges holding a series of core segments together.