stuffing box seal
1Stuffing box — A stuffing box is an assembly which is used to house a gland seal.[1] It is used to prevent leakage of fluid, such as water or steam, between sliding or turning parts of machine elements. Contents 1 Applications 1.1 Boats 1.2 Steam engines …
2stuffing box — noun a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal • Syn: ↑packing box • Hypernyms: ↑chamber • Part Meronyms: ↑stuffing nut, ↑packing nut …
3stuffing box — noun a casing in which material such as greased wool is compressed around a shaft or axle to form a seal against gas or liquid …
4stuffing nut — noun a nut used to tighten a stuffing box • Syn: ↑packing nut • Hypernyms: ↑nut • Part Holonyms: ↑stuffing box, ↑packing box * * * noun : a nut used to tighten or adjust a stuffing box …
5Seal (mechanical) — Compression seal example A mechanical seal is a device which helps join systems or mechanisms together by preventing leakage (e.g., in a plumbing system), containing pressure, or excluding contamination. The effectiveness of a seal is dependent… …
6stuffing nut — /ˈstʌfɪŋ nʌt/ (say stufing nut) noun the nut on a stuffing box that serves to condense the packing and so to tighten the seal …
7packing box — noun 1. a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal • Syn: ↑stuffing box • Hypernyms: ↑chamber • Part Meronyms: ↑stuffing nut, ↑packing nut 2. a large crate in which goods are packed …
8End face mechanical seal — An end face mechanical seal, also referred to as a mechanical face seal but usually simply as a mechanical seal, is a type of seal utilised in rotating equipment, such as pumps and compressors. When a pump operates, the liquid could leak out of… …
9Compression seal fitting — A Compression seal fitting, also known as a sealing gland, is intended to seal some type of element (probe, wire, conductor, pipe, tube, fiber optic cable) when the element must pass through a pressure or environmental boundary. A compression… …
10Gland (engineering) — A gland is a general type of stuffing box, used to seal a rotating or reciprocating shaft against a fluid. The most common example is in the head of a tap (faucet) where the gland is usually packed with string which has been soaked in tallow or… …
