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 Boot assembly

Details
Inventors: Innocent, David B.;
Assignee: Lucas Industries public limited company (Birmingham, GB2)
Primary Examiner: Butler; Douglas C.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Scrivener Clarke Scrivener and Johnson

A boot assembly for preventing ingress of dirt into one end of a bore in a housing in which a piston works usually consists of a first portion sealing against the housing adjacent to the end of the bore, a second portion sealing against the piston and a flexible web connecting the two. To prevent the second portion lifting away from the piston, to which it is conventionally attached by being stretched round a groove at the end of the piston, the boot assembly is combined with a plate, having its outer peripheral edge sealingly connected to the second portion, and an inner face in abutment with the adjacent end of the piston.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
A piston and cylinder assembly comprising a housing provided with a bore, a piston working in said bore and having a first end projecting from one end of said bore, and a boot assembly for preventing ingress of foreign matter into said one end of said bore, wherein said boot assembly comprises a plate, said plate comprising a portion of planar outline having an inner face forming an abutment face for said first end of said piston and in freely separable engagement therewith, an outer thrust transmitting face on the opposite side of said plate from said inner face, and an outer peripheral edge; an annular rim having a first portion integrally connected at one end with said peripheral edge, said first portion encircling said first end of said piston, said rim having a second portion integrally connected at one end to the other end of said first portion, said second portion being of greater diameter than said first portion and having its other end free; and a sealing boot comprising a first portion sealing against said housing adjacent to said one end of said bore by means of a clamping ring, a second portion sealingly and permanently connected to said second portion of said rim, and a flexible impermeable web connecting said first portion and said second portion of the boot.
2.
A piston and cylinder assembly according to claim 1 wherein said second portion of said annular rim is bent up away from said first portion to form a U-shape, said second portion of said boot assembly being sealingly and permanently connected to said U-shaped second portion of said rim.




Description:
This invention relates to a boot assembly for preventing ingress of foreign matter, for example dirt or water, into one end of a bore in a housing in which a piston is adapted to work, the boot assembly being of the kind comprising a first portion adapted to seal against the housing adjacent to the said one end of the bore, a second portion adapted to seal against the piston, and a flexible impermeable web connecting the first and second portions and which accommodates relative axial movement between the piston and the bore


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