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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2003
Applicant:
Drew Van Norman, Whitewater, WI (US);
Inventor:
Drew Van Norman, Whitewater, WI (US);
Assignee:
SPX Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16J 15/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sealing method and apparatus is provided for sealing between a rotating shaft and a fixed housing such as found in scraped surface heat exchangers. The sealing apparatus and method includes a sealed cartridge where a gland and a trapped seal ring can be releaseably assembled so that in a fully assembled configuration the gland and the trapped seal ring rotate together and are rotationally connected by a ball trapped between an indentation in the gland and an indentation in the trapped seal ring.