Patent ID: 9303447
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: F16J

Claim Text:
1. A gasket for use with a fuel access door having a generally flat inner facing mating wall and having an outer perimeter and an opposed generally flat outward facing mating wall having an inner perimeter on a wing of an aircraft, the fuel access door adapted to be removably fastened to the wing, the gasket in a pre-compressed state comprising: a porous, partially open metallic skeleton being generally tabular in nature and generally ring shaped, the skeleton having a generally flat upper surface and a generally flat lower surface, an inner perimeter wall and an outer perimeter wall; and a pliable, resilient, elastomeric, sticky, substantially air bubble free, coherent, homogeneous, silicon-free polyurethane body, substantially filling the openings of the skeleton and being generally tabular in nature, the body being ring shaped having a generally flat, tacky upper surface, a generally flat, tacky lower surface, an inner perimeter wall, and an outer perimeter wall; generally conform to the shape defined by the inner perimeter of the outward facing wall and wherein the outer perimeter walls of both the skeleton and the body generally conform to the shape defined by the outer perimeter of the fuel access door; and member and the outward facing mating wall member and receive compression therebetween; wherein the skeleton has multiple separate tabular layers with the polyurethane body substantially filling the openings in the multiple layers.