Piston rings

• Book ID: 104380778
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 145 KB
• Volume: 2008
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1350-4789
• DOI: 10.1016/s1350-4789(08)70637-8

✦ Synopsis

This patent describes a design of butt joint for pistons rings which from the description are used as shaft seals. The rings have a stepped butt joint and one half of the joint has a surface that slopes in the circumferential direction and is engaged by the opposing half of the ring.