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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:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Horace P. Halling, Durham, CT (US);
Assignee:
Jetseal, Inc., Spokane, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 1/7025 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 1/7025 ;
Abstract
A seal of single or multiple plies and/or single or multiple convolution regions features inflection regions to arrest or reduce bending stress in the seal's acute bend regions and/or ply deformations on non-pressure-facing plies. Additionally, there is disclosed the combined use of multiple-ply seals incorporating the inflection regions in each ply and deformations on non-pressure-facing plies.