CinchSeals are unique and problem solving sealing devices that are designed to seal powder, slurries, or bulk materials on process equipment. They are effective powder or slurry rotary shaft seals used to reduce product loss, eliminate housekeeping issues, and prevent bearing and equipment downtime in today’s demanding industrial processing plants.
Benefits of our Rotary Shaft Seals
Cost savings: Eliminate material loss, maintenance costs, prevents bearing failure, shaft damage, and saves money by less power consumption.
Durability: Our rotary seal design was created to thrive/work in some of the most rigorous and hostile environments in the food and bulk processing industries.
Environment Safety: Ensure the safety of employees and their work environments, minimizing area contamination.
Repairs: All shaft seal designs are able to accommodate repair / rebuild kits
How Our Rotary Shaft Seal Works
The ptfe or hard coated aluminum rotor cups are mounted on the silicone boot and turn with the shaft to create the primary seal face with the stator plates. The stator plates are the sacrificial surfaces and are designed to wear.
Because the cups are mounted to the boot, the rotary assembly floats with the shaft accepting ¼” misalignment that is common to bulk handling equipment.
Why We Air Purge Our Seals
The CinchSeals are purged with air, or if air isn’t available they can be purged with silicone grease. If grease is used, the customer must put in enough grease to fill the whole cavity, until you start to see grease leaking out of the Teflon® faces. We prefer the customer use air, but understand it isn’t always an option. The air does 3 things for the seals.
First, when the air is piped from existing plant air directly into the seal, it creates pressure to push the rotor against the stator and closes the sliding interface to stop any material from going into or out of the screw conveyor.
Second, we tell people to set their air gauges 5 to 7 psi higher than the vessel pressure, so that we have a higher pressure in the seal than outside of it, which creates an air barrier to keep product out of the seal. And last, the air keeps the rotating seal faces cooler by reducing temperature caused by friction. This helps prolong the life of the seal as well. From our experience, customers usually get 1 to 2 times longer life out of their seals when they use air.
Why the Competition’s Seals Fail
The most popular seal you see in the field, mechanical packing, is ineffective, requiring high maintenance. Standard gland seals such as packing glands or split gland seals use square packing that is compressed around the shaft to create a seal between the shaft and seal housing. The packing is designed to wear with normal operation, and based on the severity of the product being sealed, will need to be replaced very frequently. Also, with axial runout of the shaft, the packing gets beat up which creates gaps for material to get through and leak out. Our seal can handle up to .25” of shaft runout.
With abrasive bulk materials, the material will migrate into the seal area and become impregnated into the rope packing. The abrasive material will begin to wear down the shaft and the packing. This creates an area for material to escape and leak out of, not to mention damaging the shaft, making the surface uneven and difficult to seal. Packing also has to be maintained, removed, and re-packed, which is costly and labor intensive. The CinchSeal easily bolts up thanks to our self-adjusting design; the customer will have almost zero maintenance for thousands of hours.
Internal Mechanism
The molded elastomer boot seals the shaft statically without damaging or wearing the shaft or the shaft seal material.
The silicone boot will withstand temperatures up to 425 degrees F.
The elastomer boot material is an FDA approved silicone that will handle 95% of industrial applications in the field. This lowers inventory and price, and reduces material selection errors.
Parts of the Seal
The ptfe stators and rotor cups are made out of special mineral filled Teflon® with 15% of a binding agent Wollastonite. The hard coat aluminum rotor cups used for abrasive applications are rated at a rockwell hardness of 62, which is just below diamond.
Specifications
Temperature Ranges:
Poly housing with air purge up to 180°F
Aluminum or 316 stainless steel up to 400°F
Can Withstand:
Up to 28 inches of vacuum
Up to 65 psi operating pressure
Purge seal with 5 to 7 psi of air above operating vessel pressure for optimum performance
Speed:
Screw conveyor seal – up to 60 rpm
Mixer seal – up to 225 rpm
Chopper seal – up to 3600 rpm
Notify the factory when application is above 60 rpm for screw conveyor seal or 225 rpm for mixer seal
Maximum surface speeds approx. 1200 feet per minute
Metals:
Seal housing is available in Aluminum and 316 Stainless Steel depending on customer’s needs.
Hastelloy C 276 and titanium can be used when required.
CinchSeals are unique and problem solving sealing devices that are designed to seal powder, slurries, or bulk materials on process equipment. They are effective powder or slurry rotary shaft seals used to reduce product loss, eliminate housekeeping issues, and prevent bearing and equipment downtime in today’s demanding industrial processing plants.
The most popular seal you see in the field, mechanical packing, is ineffective, requiring high maintenance. Standard gland seals such as packing glands or split gland seals use square packing that is compressed around the shaft to create a seal between the shaft and seal housing. The packing is designed to wear with normal operation, and based on the severity of the product being sealed, will need to be replaced very frequently. Also, with axial runout of the shaft, the packing gets beat up which creates gaps for material to get through and leak out. Our seal can handle up to .25” of shaft runout.