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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
May. 18, 2000
Olaf Abels, Beim, DE;
Other;
Abstract
A bellows seal ( ) on a ball-and-socket joint provided with joint ball and ball pivot ( ), especially on a ball-and-socket joint of a chassis bearing, with an elastic bellows has a pivot-side opening and a joint-side opening and axially surrounds the ball pivot ( ) of the ball-and-socket joint. A circumferential, elastic and outwardly pointing sealing lip ( ), which can be in contact with a sealing surface ( ), is provided at the pivot-side opening of the sealing bellows ( ). An L-ring, whose first leg ( ) points essentially in the axial direction (axial leg) and whose second leg ( ) points radially to the outside (radial leg), is provided at the pivot-side opening. The radial leg ( ) engages a groove extending on the inside of the sealing bellows ( ) or is anchored in it, and the inside of the axial leg ( ) is sealingly in contact with an opposite running surface.