Patent ID: 7487808

Claim:
A coupling seal for environmentally isolated transferring, filling, or emptying of receptacles, comprising: at least a first sealing strip containing at least one rabbet body that is at least partly elastic having an interior side, an exterior side, a top side or edge and/or a bottom side or edge, at least a first bearing element on a first end of said rabbet body, and at least a second bearing element on a second end of said rabbet body that opposes the first end; at least a second sealing strip containing at least one rabbet body that is at least partly elastic having an interior side, an exterior side, a top side or edge and/or a bottom side or edge, at least a first bearing element on a first end of said rabbet body, and at least a second bearing element on a second end of said rabbet body that opposes the first end, wherein said interior sides of said rabbet bodies of said first and second sealing strips are positioned to seal against one another, at least in sections, such that said first bearing element of said first sealing strip is arranged adjacent to said second bearing element of said second sealing strip and said second bearing element of said first sealing strip is arranged adjacent to said first bearing element of said second sealing strip, in each case with said interior sides of said rabbet bodies of said first and second sealing strips at least partially positioned against one another, forming first and second joint bodies; at least a first flexible element with opposing first and second ends that, within these first and second ends, extends at least between a first fixing device of said rabbet body of said first sealing strip and a second fixing device of said rabbet body of said first sealing strip; and at least a second flexible element with opposing first and second ends that, within these first and second ends, extends at least between a first fixing device of said rabbet body of said second sealing strip and a second fixing device said rabbet body of said second sealing strip.