Patent ID: 7827950

Claim:
A valve cover assembly for sealed engagement with a cylinder block, comprising: a cover portion having a peripheral lip; a rail having an upwardly extending peripheral flange, a rigid sealing surface for engagement with the cylinder block depending from said flange, a recessed channel extending upwardly from said sealing surface, and a mounting flange spaced outwardly from said recessed channel, said mounting flange being substantially solid with a bolt opening extending therethrough and having a hard mounting bottom surface coplanar with said sealing surface; a molded-in-place elastomeric bridge connecting said lip to said flange and maintaining said cover in spaced relation to said rail; and a seal disposed in said recessed channel as a separate piece of material from said molded-in-place elastomeric bridge, said seal depending from said rigid sealing surface when in an uninstalled, uncompressed state for compression against the cylinder block upon said sealing said rigid sealing surface and said hard mounting bottom surface being brought into engagement with the cylinder block.