Patent ID: 9016697
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: F16J

Abstract:
1. A spacer and gasket assembly for receipt between a static structure having an outer and inner surface and fastener holes therethrough and a removable structure, that is removable with regards to the static structure; the removable structure having a base with fastener holes and an upper surface and a lower surface, 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 between the static structure and the removable structure, the static structure and the removeable structure having opposed, typically flat, facing walls, the spacer and gasket assembly comprising: multiple, discrete non-compressible spacers, the spacers separate from and not integral with the static or removable structure or the fasteners, the spacers located at multiple discrete spaced apart locations between the static structure and the removable structure, the spacers having a spacer thickness; and a gasket having a deformable, flowable, elastomeric gel body and a skeleton having a skeleton thickness, the skeleton substantially integral with the body, the gasket having an uncompressed gasket thickness and an outer perimeter; wherein the spacers are laterally spaced apart from the fasteners, such that compression between removable structure and the static structure provides a mechanical stop and contact with at least one of the static structure or removeable structure.