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Abstract

A deformable sealing device for a gap between a wall opening of a building wall and a back wall of a vehicle docking at the wall opening has a flap-shaped deformable skirt for receiving loads exerted by the back wall of the vehicle docking at the wall opening. The skirt has an upper transverse portion with a transverse beam and two vertical strips arranged parallel to the vertical sides of the wall opening. A cover is connected between the transverse beam and the building wall. The skirt has flap-shaped, deformable, non-stiff side portions in the form of tarpaulins having forward edges connected to the outer edges of the vertical strips and rearward edges connected to the building wall. The side portions and the vertical strips are vertically spaced at a distance from the cover such that the side portions and the vertical strips are deformable toward the building wall independent of the upper transverse portion. An elastic and bendable mechanism for suspending the side portions engages upper ends of the side portions. A stretching mechanism for maintaining a full horizontal extension of the side portions, when the sealing device is in its rest position, is provided at a lower end of the side portions.

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