Patent ID: 6799452
Filing Date: 2004-10-05
Classification: F16L,F17D,G01M

Abstract:
A device for leak testing a chamber, which is shaped as an openable clamp capable, in the functional position, of sealingly enclosing all or part of the chamber so as to define, around the latter, a sniffing enclosure comprising:a rigid bearing framework made up of several sections articulated together to allow the clamp to be opened up while the chamber is being placed internal to the framework or removed thereform, said framework being shaped in the form of a trough with, in cross section, the overall shape of a U open radially toward the inside; and a sealing jacket made of relatively flexible material positioned at least partially external to the framework, supported by said framework and shaped, at the edges of the trough formed by the framework, into deformable sealing lips able to press sealingly against the surface of the chamber.