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patent · US6428011

Mechanical seals

6 August 2002

Indexed reference — no copy held

This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.

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Abstract

A mechanical shaft seal includes stationary and rotary assemblies providing mating seating faces 3, 11 such that first and second fluids are kept separate from each other. A barrier fluid system provides a third fluid between the first and second fluids and a flow inducer 13 promotes axial flow of the barrier fluid in the desired direction irrespective of the direction of rotation of the rotary assembly.

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
1999-09-16
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2002-08-06
Inventors
Easa Taheri Oskouei; AES Engineering Ltd