| 摘要 |
A seal kit for assembly into a system for sealing an elongate heating cable (134) from ambient essentially includes a cone-shaped elastomeric grommet (112), several molded plastic parts, and a compression spring (108). The compression grommet (112) forms a sealing interface between itself and a molded plastic enclosure body (104) and between itself and an outer jacket of a heating cable (134). Cable ends are sealed within a sealed interior space of the enclosure body. A cup-shaped surface (120) of a molded plastic part adjacently facing a congruent cone-shaped surface (118)of the elastomeric grommet forms a slip-plane. The compression spring transfers energy to compress the elastomeric grommet and to cause it to expand radially against an interior wall of the enclosure body and against an outer jacket of the electrical cable and prevents that region of the grommet from becoming bonded over a high temperature operating interval to the inside wall of the enclosure body. When the sealing system cools down, the elastomeric grommet slips longitudinally along at least slip-plane and thereby maintains a radial seal against the outer jacket of the heating cable. |
