Device for feeding pressure fluids from a stationary bearing cover into the outer end of a rotating shaft

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A FRAME, A SHAFT HAVING ONE END MOUNTED IN THE FRAME FOR ROTATION ABOUT AN AXIS AND HAVING AT LEAST ONE BORE THEREIN OPENING IN SAID END, A SEALING ELEMENT PART CONCENTRIC AND INTERFITTING WITH THE SHAFT AND HAVING A BORE THERETHROUGH, SAID SEALING ELEMENT PART BEING NONROTATABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE FRAME, THE INTERFITTING SECTIONS OF SAID SHAFT AND SAID SEALING ELEMENT PART HAVING OPPOSED SLIGHTLY SPACED CYLINDRICAL SURFACES TO FORM A NONCONTACTING SEALING JOINT, A SEALING MEMBER PART CONCENTRIC WITH THE SHAFT AND IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID SEALING ELEMENT PART HAVING A BORE THERETHROUGH COMMUNICATING WITH SAID BORES OF THE TWO OTHER PARTS, SAID SEALING ELEMENT PART AND SAID SEALING MEMBER PART INTERFITTING WITH EACH OTHER, ELASTICALLY DEFORMABLE SEALING RING MEANS ENGAGED BETWEEN THE PARTS MOUNTING THE SEALING MEMBER PART ROCKABLY WITH RESPECT TO SAID SEALING ELEMENT PART AT A POINT SPACED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE SEALING ELEMENT PART FROM THE AREA OF SAID SEALING JOINT, AND MEANS ROCKABLY MOUNTING SAID SEALING MEMBER PART IN SAID FRAME, WHEREBY TO PREVENT DISTURBANCE OF SAID SEALING JOINT BY LONGITUDINAL ECCENTRIC AND WOBBLING MOTIONS OF SAID SHAFT.