Patent ID: 9671023
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: B64C,F16J,H01Q,Y10T

Claim:
1. A spacer and gasket assembly for receipt between a static structure and a removable structure with fastener holes and the static structure and removable structure being engaged through a multiplicity of fasteners having a shaft diameter, the fasteners adapted to apply a compression on the gasket and spacer assembly, the static structure and the removable structure having opposed, facing walls, the spacer and gasket assembly comprising: multiple non-compressible spacers having a spacer thickness, the spacers for receipt between the static structure and the removable structure, the spacers having a flat top and a flat bottom; and a gasket having a deformable, flowable, sticky, elastomeric body with a top and a bottom surface and a skeleton having a skeleton thickness less than a body thickness, the skeleton substantially encapsulated by the body, the gasket having an uncompressed gasket thickness; and a spacer thickness, wherein the spacer thickness is about 40-80% of the uncompressed gasket thickness wherein the spacers do not encircle the fastener;