US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Nov. 3 for "Mounting system for a sealing apparatus, a sealing apparatus, and a method for manufacturing such a sealing apparatus" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,858, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Mounting system for a sealing apparatus, a sealing apparatus, and a method for manufacturing such a sealing apparatus" was invented by Norbert Bartonek (Hodenhagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure, a mounting system for a sealing apparatus of a ball valve apparatus is provided. It comprises a sealing apparatus, wherein the sealing apparatus comprises a housing device made of a hard component and a sealing means made of a soft component, a mounting apparatus having a mounting tappet extending in an axial direction, wher...