Sealing apparatus for an internal combustion engine

Patent · Tue Dec 17 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5581103

Sputhe, A C

This paper describes an internal combustion engine. It comprises: a cylinder block having an end surface and a cylinder bore; a cylinder head having an end surface facing the block end surface; gasket means about the cylinder bore and between the end surfaces; means securing the block and the head with the gasket means compressed by the end surfaces; a fluid passage in the head and including a fluid passage bore extending to the head end surface; a fluid passage in the block; a nipple communicating with the block fluid passage, the nipple protruding from the block end surface and received by the fluid passage bore in the head; and sealing means carried by the nipple, the sealing means received by and sealingly seating against the fluid passage bore in the head.

• Assignee: NOV; NOV-92-021446; EDB-92-087967
• Patent Number(s): A; US 5072697
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-668622
• OSTI ID: 5581103
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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