Compressible packing live loading apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9494237
APP PUB NO 20140339450A1
SERIAL NO

14279815

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A live-loading assembly for exerting a sealing force on a compressible packing structure of a fluid handling device, such as a valve or pump, includes a pair of gland bolts each movably extending through opposite end lids of a tubular cartridge and through a Belleville spring stack disposed within the cartridge and bearing on a tubular piston rod having an end portion extending outwardly through one of the lids and having a spring force indicating scale disposed thereon. When packing force adjustment nuts are tightened onto the bolts, to increase the compression force exerted on the packing structures, one of the lids on each cartridge moves along the associated exposed piston rod scale to thereby provide a visual indication of the amount of spring force being created by each tightened nut.

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TEADIT N A INC10545 RED BLUFF RD PASADENA TX 77507

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Girao, Barroso Carlos Daniel Braga Rio de Janeiro, BR 2 6
Veiga, Jose Carlos Rio de Janeiro, BR 2 6

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