Patent ID: 6131911
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: F01D,F05D,F16J

Abstract:
An annular brush seal for disposition between a rotatable component having an axis of rotation and another component about said axis, comprising:a plurality of arcuate brush seal segments for forming an annulus about and lying in a plane normal to said axis and between the components, each said brush seal segment including an arcuate array of discrete, generally linearly extending bristles secured to said segment and extending therefrom at angles offset from radii of said segments;each of said brush seal segments having opposite ends, the bristles adjacent a first end of each segment extending at an acute angle relative to said first end of said segment such that a portion of said segment at said first end thereof is void of bristles;a support between said first end of each segment and an end of an adjacent segment;a plurality of bristles secured to each said support and extending therefrom at angles offset from a radius of said segments at said first end of each said segment, said plurality of bristles extending to the first end portions of said segments to provide bristles in said voids at said first ends thereof;each said support being secured to one of said first end and said adjacent end of said segments.