GEL SEALING ARTICLES

摘要

Gel sealing profiles with various forms of solid carrier, including filaments and fixing lug (preferably integral with carrier) with enlarged head for snap or slide fitting into slot to hold profile on surface to be sealed; uses as door or window seal, bath or basin seal, and condensation diverter are specified. Also covers plastics-coated glass filament carriers, spring carriers (solid or hollow gel), metal wire "dead bend" carriers, optical fibre carriers, and braid knit, weave or other fabric carriers of natural or synthetic plastics or metal. The carrier may be recessed within the gel for enhanced end-to-end sealing of the profiles in grooves, e.g. in automotive headlamp units. Separately claimed are hollow tubular gel profiles omitting any hollow or solid carrier altogether.