Patent ID: 6837498

Claim:
A sealing device ( 13 ) for sealing an assembly ( 10 ) which comprises two parts ( 11 , 12 ), of which one part ( 11 ) is provided with the sealing device ( 13 ), while the other part ( 12 ) has a face ( 14 ) which is engaged by the sealing device ( 13 ): the sealing device ( 13 ) being embodied on the face end of one wall ( 16 ) of the first part ( 11 ) and having a groove ( 20 ), which extends along the face end and is bounded on both sides by groove cheeks ( 22 , 25 ); the groove cheek ( 22 ) located toward the outside ( 17 ) of the wall ( 16 ) being braced on the face ( 14 ) of the second part ( 12 ), while the groove cheek ( 25 ) located toward the inside ( 24 ) of the wail ( 16 ) extends with spacing from the face ( 14 ); a rubber-elastic seal ( 27 ) disposed in the groove ( 20 ), which seal in the unstressed state protrudes past both groove cheeks ( 22 , 25 ) and in the stressed state is forced back at least approximately as far as the groove cheek ( 22 ) toward the outside, the groove cheek ( 22 ) toward the outside having a protrusion ( 23 ) of luglike cross section, adjoining the groove ( 20 ), which protrusion, by plastic deformation, engages the face ( 14 ) of the second part ( 12 ); the groove cheek ( 25 ) toward the inside is embodied in cross section as a wedge, which has a rounded tip and which comes to an end at its wedge angle in a bottom ( 21 ), embodied as flat, of the groove ( 20 ).