Patent ID: 7422177

Claim:
Sealing device for a flap track in a belly fairing for an actuating shaft of a flap of an aircraft the actuating shaft, the actuating shaft being capable of moving from a first end to a second end of the flap track, the device comprising a flexibly compressible top body comprising at least one upper inner chamber with open sides and delimited at the bottom by a bottom wall with an lower outer contact surface, a front wall with an upper outer surface which covers at least a first part of the flap track; a rear wall, a top wall; and a flexibly compressible bottom body comprising at least one lower inner chamber with open sides and delimited at the top by a top wall with an upper outer contact surface; a front wall with a lower outer surface which covers at least a second part of the flap track; a rear wall; a bottom wall; said contact surfaces being in flexible contact with each other; the outer surfaces of the front walls of the hollow bodies having extensions such that they jointly form an outer sealing surface which can cover the flap track; said hollow bodies jointly having a vertical compression flexibility such that the contact surfaces retract around the actuating shaft; and the inner chambers extending between said front walls and rear walls.