Patent ID: 7393451

Claim:
A traveling water screen system comprising: a vertically traveling water screen having an outer screen surface and rows of flights extending outwardly from the outer screen surface and laterally across the width of the water screen between first and second flight side edges, the traveling water screen changing direction between a downstream path and an upstream path at a lower end of the water screen; water screen support structure including a first side and an opposite second side confining the water screen; a boot plate forming a trough extending from the first side to the second side of the support structure for receiving the lower end of the water screen; a first side seal disposed at the first side of the support structure at the lower end of the water screen and including: a first plate received in the boot plate trough and having wear surfaces resiliently compressible toward the first side of the support structure by contact with the passing first flight side edges; a second side seal disposed at the second side of the support structure at the lower end of the water screen and including: a second plate received in the boot plate trough and having wear surfaces resiliently compressible toward the second side of the support structure by contact with the passing second flight side edges.