Patent ID: 8505923
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: F05B,F16J,F28D

Abstract:
1. A brush seal comprising: an elongate spine; a plurality of pairs of bristles extending outwardly from the spine; and an elongate longitudinally extending flexible sealing membrane disposed in contact with a plurality of the bristles on opposite sides thereof, the flexible sealing membrane comprised of a plurality of flexible sealing membrane layers extending outwardly from the spine that overlap one another with each flexible sealing membrane layer having a plurality of spaced apart deformation regions formed therein that are deformable in response to one of stress and deflection allowing extensibility thereof along a lengthwise extent in accommodating the one of stress and deflection; and an elongate core wire from which the bristles and flexible sealing membrane layers outwardly extend, the core wire received in the spine with the spine retaining the bristles and flexible sealing membrane layers there between.