A sealing assembly may include a support, an engine component, and a seal. The engine component may be mounted relative to the support to define a gap between the engine component and the support. The seal may be arranged between the support and the engine component to block gasses from passing through the gap. The seal may be adapted to compress and expand to fill the gap during expansion and contraction of the adjacent components that occurs during operation of a gas turbine engine including the sealing assembly.

Flexible seal assemblies having a relatively low torsional rigidity and high longitudinal flexure to thereby allow the flexible seal assembly to flex between adjacent components and maintain a seal, even when movement between adjacent components occurs, is described. In some embodiments, the flexible seal assembly includes one or more layers of metal matrix material, the metal matrix material being comprised of a plurality of short segments of thin wire arranged randomly and sintered together to form a semi-rigid sheet. The one or more layers of metal matrix material can be sandwiched between an upper casing and a lower casing of a metal alloy casing. In various embodiments, additional features are provided for helping to make sure the seal assembly stays together, such as spot welds formed through the seal assembly, an S-shaped casing, and a recess/protrusion feature provided on adjacent layers of metal matrix material.

A method and system including a circumferential seal assembly for sealing between components within a turbine is provided. A circumferential seal assembly is disposed in a slot extending circumferentially about an inner barrel. The seal assembly includes a first shim layer and at least one additional shim layer configured in an overlapping stacked configuration so as to stagger the end portions of each of the shim segments defined by the shim layers, relative to one another and circumferentially about the seal assembly. One or more cloth layers are configured wrapping about the first shim layer and the at least one additional shim layer to define a sealing member having a first sealing surface and a second sealing surface. The assembly further including a base plate, wherein the sealing member is disposed on an upper surface of the base plate to provide for sealing engagement between the components of the turbine.

An assembly for a turbine engine includes a turbine engine first component, a turbine engine second component and a seal assembly. The first component includes a groove and a groove surface. The second component includes a tongue that extends into the groove to a tongue surface. The seal assembly at least partially seals a gap between the groove surface and the tongue surface. The seal assembly includes a rope seal and a clip that attaches the rope seal to the tongue. The rope seal is arranged within the groove between the groove surface and the tongue surface.

Build cylinder arrangements for machines for the layered production of three-dimensional objects by sintering or melting with a high-energy beam, of powdered material, are disclosed and have a base member and a piston that can be moved on an inner side of the base member along a central axis of the base member. The piston has at its upper side a substrate for building a three-dimensional object, and on the piston is a seal in abutment with the inner side of the base member for sealing the powdered material. The seal is a circumferential fiber metal seal of metal fibers that are pressed together and the pressed metal fibers are arranged with resilient compression stress between the piston and the inner side of the base member.

The embodiments described herein provide a cloth seal for use with turbine components. The cloth seal includes first and second cloth layers. One or more central shims are positioned between the first and second cloth layers so as to block a leakage flow path. Another shim is positioned on and seals the opposite side of the first cloth layer from the one or more central shims positioned between the first and second cloth layers so as to block another leakage flow path. Yet another sealing shim may be positioned on the opposite side of the second cloth layer from the one or more central shims positioned between the first and second cloth layers to as to seal the opposite side of the second cloth layer and block another leakage flow path.

A sealing system including a first component at least partially manufactured from ceramic fiber composite materials, a second component at least partially manufactured from ceramic fiber composite materials, and a sealing element accommodated between the first component and the second component. The sealing element is designed as a sealing strip. It is provided that at least one recess accommodating the sealing element is formed on the first component and/or on the second component, the recess having a cross-sectional profile including an inner section which is concave toward the sealing element, the radius of curvature of the inner section being selected in such a way that it may be formed with the aid of continuous, curved fibers of the ceramic fiber composite material, the fibers being oriented in such a way that they lie essentially in parallel to the cross-sectional plane of the cross-sectional profile.

A gasket in a transport refrigeration system (TRS) and method of preventing corrosion in a compressor using a gasket. The gasket includes a body, where the body includes a fluid pass portion, and a flange that extends from the body. The body and the flange include a second layer between an outside first layer and a third layer. The second layer is a metal and the metal is a non-uniform thickness that extends across the flange and the body to deflect compression load distribution.

An object of the present invention is to provide a gasket capable of improving cooling efficiency with a simpler configuration while keeping performance of the gasket and a manufacturing method thereof. A gasket includes a first annular portion which is formed by a metal wire woven fabric obtained by weaving a first metal wire and includes a seal target hole and a main body portion which is in contact with an outer peripheral edge of the first annular portion, in which the first metal wire forming the first annular portion and the first metal wire forming the main body portion are entangled with each other and a second metal wire is woven together with the first metal wire forming the first annular portion to form the first annular portion as a high thermal conduction region.

A highly flexible sealing arrangement designed to seal high-temperature furnace ports, particularly the electrode port of an electric furnace. The seal comprises an annular support member fixed to a flexible sealing member and employs the use of a garter spring to uniformly apply the desired amount of seal compression. The arrangement and flexibility of the sealing member allows the seal to adapt itself to the wide range of operating and upset conditions that typically exist for a furnace electrode seal. Frictional wear on the seal may be greatly reduced as the design inherently allows for a much lower amount of seal compression to be applied, furthermore, the seal is able to move axially which can significantly reduce wear caused by electrode regulation.