Patent ID: 6401398
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: B64C

Abstract:
A sealing arrangement between an opening leaf and a frame of an aircraft door, one of the frame and leaf providing an elongate generally channel-shaped recess including an inside surface having a base part and side parts, and a mouth which opens to the leaf or frame part, respectively, when the leaf is closed, and the other of the leaf and frame carrying a deformable elongate seal which, when the leaf is closed with respect to the frame, is received in the channel-shaped recess, wherein the elongate seal includes a plurality of axially extending outwardly projecting lobe formations, and an internal hollow, the recess and the seal being configured such that as the leaf is closed and the seal is received in the recess, a first of the axially extending outwardly projecting lobe formations of the seal engages with the base part of the inside surface of the recess and as the leaf is continued to be closed, the seal becomes deformed in a manner to cause the or at least one of the other axially extending outwardly projecting formations to be urged into sealing engagement with a side part of the inside surface of the channel-shaped recess.