Patent ID: 8235392
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: F01D,F05D,F16J

Abstract:
1. A sealing apparatus for non-hermetically sealing a gap between a stator and a rotor with a brush seal, wherein the brush seal has a bristle package with several bristles, the bristles are wound about a core element and fixed to the core element, wherein the brush seal is disposed at least sectionally in an accommodating space defined by a supporting element and a covering element, wherein the bristles have sealing bristle sections, which are at an angle to the bristle shafts, and the ends of which run against a sealing surface of the rotor, the sealing apparatus further comprising: a support surface disposed at an end of the covering element adjacent to the sealing bristle sections, wherein the supporting surface contacts the bristle shafts in a defined, locally limited region, so that the radial mobility of the sealing bristle sections is limited in the direction of the rotor.