"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7281508 | Cylinder head cover assembly for the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine and process for producing a cylinder head cover assembly A rocker cover assembly for a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine includes a rock cover, a gasket element and a stabilizing core. The gasket element is disposed between the rocker cover and the cylinder head, and includes a sealing material. The stabilizi... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7255069 | Cylinder sleeve support for an internal combustion engine The disclosed multi-cylinder, poppet-valved engine, has replacement cylinder sleeves larger than the original sleeves, and laterally supported near their upper ends by an aluminum alloy plate having a continuous flange or boss projecting into the cylinder block. The... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249578 | Cylinder head gasket for use in an internal combustion engine and internal combustion engine equipped therewith A combustion engine includes a cylinder head and a cylinder crankcase having a cylinder bore and a coolant duct formed therein. The coolant duct is disposed adjacent the cylinder bore and is a cooling system component. A cylinder head gasket is provided between the ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7097178 | Gasket with integral channel and port seal A novel gasket is provided for filling the space between two mating surfaces on components in an automotive transmission. The gasket includes one or more patches of silicone integrated into a portion of the gasket for providing one or more channels through the gaske... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7047915 | Engine cooling device In a cooling unit for an engine comprising a cylinder block 1 having a water jacket 4 which opens into the surface of the cylinder block 1 and which circulates a cooling water in surrounding relationship with a cylinder bore, and a gasket 11 | 05/23/2006 |
| 7029251 | Backpressure mechanism of scroll type compressor A backpressure mechanism for a scroll type compressor to effectively prevent leakage of coolant; a recessed seat being provided at the top of a coolant passage at the center of a fixed scroll; a ring groove being disposed on the outer circumference of the recessed s... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6976683 | Cylinder head gasket A cylinder head gasket comprising a gasket plate for an engine in which at least one first coolant cavity is formed in the engine block adjacent to the cylinder head gasket, with the gasket plate comprising coolant passage openings via which the first coolant cavity... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6962346 | Gasket and heat shield assembly for a flanged joint A heat shield and gasket assembly has three members including a first heat shield, a second heat shield, and a gasket. Each of the members has a flange portion and the flange portion of the gasket is sandwiched between the flanges of the two heat shields. The flange... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6913267 | Apparatus for aligning push rods A cylinder head gasket (211) includes one or more alignment holes (301) and one or more drain-back holes (303) disposed in an area of the cylinder head gasket (211). One or more push rods (211) are extendable through the alignment ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6811159 | Gasket and heat shield for a flanged joint A gasket and heat shield for sealing and insulating a flanged joint has a first body portion, which contains a gasket member and a second body portion disposed at an angle relative to the first body portion. The first body portion incorporates two openings to accomm... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6702297 | Metal gasket for use in engine with chain case A metal gasket used in an engine with a chain case, using a foam-rubber seal member shaped to withstand in practical use and having excellent long-lasting reliability and excellent durability. A total constitutive plate of the metal gasket is extended alo... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6406032 | Cylinder head gasket with gas releasing portion A cylinder head gasket is formed of a metal plate, cylinder bore sealing devices formed on the metal plate for sealing around cylinder bores, and at least one water hole sealing device formed on the metal plate. The water hole sealing device has an inner ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6247704 | Gasket with dynamic embossment A composite gasket includes a central core located between non-metallic outer facing layers. Each non-metallic outer facing layer has an outer core adjacent the central core. The outer cores can be either perforated or non-perforated. A bead is provided o... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6003877 | Insulated heat exhaust gasket An insulator gasket is disclosed having gasket sections folded toward each other to form an angled gap of 1-15 degrees. Openings in the gasket sections are partially aligned and allow passage of fastener devices during assembly. The gasket includes a comp... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5924701 | Multi-layered steel, dual-purpose intake/exhaust gasket A dual purpose, multi-layered steel intake/exhaust manifold gasket is constructed from a rubber coated embossed single-layer intake manifold gasket attached to an uncoated embossed double-layer exhaust manifold gasket. The gaskets overlap at several disco... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5842702 | Metal laminate type cylinder head gasket with heat preventing portion A metal laminate type cylinder head gasket of the invention is basically formed of first and second metal plates laminated together. The first metal plate includes a heat preventing portion for defining a first hole for a cylinder bore, a main sealing por... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5601294 | Head gasket An engine head gasket comprises a relatively incompressible steel plate having compressible tubes with a thermally expandible non gaseous non compressible elastic media therein disposed within each combustion opening and elastomeric sealing beads molded a... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5584490 | Metal gasket with coolant contact areas This metal gasket is formed by laminating a pair of bead plates and a pair of intermediate plates, and capable of setting the temperature distribution thereof uniform by efficiently cooling high-temperature regions which are in the vicinity of swirl chamb... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5374069 | Aluminum core cylinder head gasket for marine engines A cylinder head gasket for use in a marine engine adapted to be cooled by the water in which the engine is running, the engine having a non-ferrous alloy cylinder head and a non-ferrous alloy engine block, both the block and cylinder head preferably being... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5362074 | Reinforced core heavy duty gasket A gasket has two outer facing layers positioned on opposite sides of a central metal shim with a perforated core disposed between each facing layer and the shim. The width of the metal shim may be varied to control the overall width of the gasket. The cor... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5306024 | Metal gasket with low heat transmission A metal gasket of the invention is designed to reduce heat transfer between two engine parts. The gasket is formed of at least two plates having holes to be sealed and bolt holes, a sealing device formed around the hole to be sealed, and a space forming d... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5297807 | Steel laminate gasket A steel laminate gasket comprises first, second and third plates. The gasket is provided with a first sealing device for sealing around a cylinder hole, which is integrally formed with one of the first, second and third plates, .a second sealing device si... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5232229 | Metal gasket with low heat transmission A metal gasket of the invention is designed to reduce heat transfer between two engine parts. The gasket is formed of at least two plates having holes to be sealed and bolt holes, a sealing device formed around the hole to be sealed, and a space forming d... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5215315 | Gasket having thermally insulated port closure assembly A gasket having a closure assembly secured over a port formed through the body thereof for thermally sealing and insulating the intake manifold from the cylinder head is disclosed. The closure assembly is formed from a metallic baffle plate, a thermal bar... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5205566 | Metallic gasket A main metallic gasket body is formed by interposing an intermediate plate between two elastic metallic plates, each of which have a bead formed around combustion chambers. The intermediate plate is divided into two pieces, steps are formed by the two pie... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5125551 | Cylinder head gasket Cylinder head gasket which includes between adjacent cylinder bore apertures a heat-conductive element which is in thermal contact with the metal eyelets of those apertures and extends into a coolant aperture of the gasket. Such a gasket is less liable to... | 06/30/1992 |
| 4822062 | Two material non-asbestos gasket and method of making the same A gasket formed from a perforated core sheet having a first facing layer formed from a material having a relatively high degree of thermal conductivity on one side thereof and a second facing layer formed from a relatively compressible, non-asbestos gaske... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4776602 | Thermally conductive composite gasket A composite gasket is formed of a metal core and includes a compressible composition gasket facing material on both sides of the core. Intermediately of at least one facing and directly against the core is interposed a thermally conductive layer of materi... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4662643 | Head gasket assembly for closely adjacent cylinder bores and method of making same A head gasket assembly for closely adjacent cylinder bores and method of making the assembly. In the zone of adjacency of the combustion openings in the gasket assembly, part of the gasket body material is absent. Adjacent armoring is joined to form a bri... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4561634 | Seal of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine A sealing arrangement of the cylinder head with respect to the cylinder block by means of a flat seal which is constructed as intermediate plate and extends from the edge of the cylinder bore also up to its cylinder axis; essentially only circular opening... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4471968 | Flat seal A flat seal with at least one aperture through which flows a medium to be sealed, particularly for use in the exhaust gas lines of internal combustion engines which are operated at high exhaust gas temperatures; the flat seal thereby consists of a sheet m... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4331336 | Head gaskets and method of making same A method of manufacturing a cylinder head gasket comprising the steps of preassembling a main gasket body and a fire ring and then precompressing the gasket to alter the characteristics of one of the gasket body and fire ring, so that a portion of the ava... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4272085 | Cylinder head gasket for a liquid cooled internal combustion engine A cylinder head gasket for internal combustion engine, which comprises a gasket body formed with hole for combustion chambers and holes for coolant passages is disclosed, in which protruded portions of high thermal conductivity metal whose thickness is la... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4083570 | Gasket reinforced by slit grommet The gasket has a grommet about its holes and the grommet has a slit in the narrow area between the adjoining or adjacent holes where superior sealing is required. The gasket may have, when necessary, a sheet of a heat resisting material in said area.... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4072316 | Three-piece heat resistant gasket A three-piece heat resistant gasket having a rigid body molded of heat insulating material forming a relatively thin web around the fluid passage to be sealed. Two resiliently compressible gasket elements in the form of flat slabs of heat insulating mater... | 02/07/1978 |
| 3944235 | Gasket with heat insulating properties A gasket with heat-insulating properties is provided for such uses as for mounting a carburetor on an internal-combustion-engine casting. A thick core of heat-insulating resin, such as phenolic resin, is sandwiched between two thin cutout sheets of resili... | 03/16/1976 |