Patent ID: 6109616
Filing Date: 2000-08-29
Classification: F16J,Y10T

Abstract:
Brush seal for sealing an annular gap between a rotor/stator arrangement, having a rotor-concentric clamping ring with a toroidal interior chamber that receives bristle bundles whose ends project out of a circumferential slot of the clamping ring toward the gap, such bundles being wrapped around a core ring that extends in the interior chamber, wherein:the core ring comprises separating disks that are spaced apart in the circumferential direction by an angular pitch .alpha., and winding ribs that are wrapped by bundles;the winding ribs and separating disks are arranged in alternating sequence; andthe separating disks are disposed diagonally in the circumferential direction, whereby the bundles are aligned at an angle to a radius of the rotor.