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All Seals Incoporated
The Sealing Specialists
2110 S. Yale Street
Santa Ana, CA 92704
Phone: (714) 556-4931
Toll Free: (800) 553-5054
Fax: (714) 557-3257
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O-Rings |
There are several different standards to choose from when it comes to O-ring dimensions. The most popular in the United States is the AS568 standard for O-ring sizes and tolerances. Maintained by the Society of Automotive Engineers, this standard allows the user to choose from five different cross-sections with inside diameters ranging from 1/32" to 26". Tube fitting boss seals are included in AS568 as 900 series O-ring sizes, and are intended for use in MS33649 (now superseded by SAE-AS5202) straight thread tube fitings.
All Seals also offers a wide array of metric sizes, in both standard and non-standard dimensions. As a subset of the metric sizes offered, we also stock many Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS B2401) sizes. If an O-ring with special size or fluid resistance is required, All Seals can provide custom O-rings, specially made to your demanding requirements.
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Related Products |
Quad Rings are four-lobed seals with a geometry that provides twice the number of sealing surfaces when compared to that of a standard O-ring. Thus, damage to any particular lobe will be much less likely to cause seal failure. Twice the number of sealing surfaces also allows a Quattro Seal to seal at lower pressures and/or less interference than would be feasible with an O-ring.
The four-lobed configuration also creates a more stable seal that reduces the likelihood of spiral twisting in reciprocal applications. This is because than rather than relying solely on squeeze to achieve a seal like an O-ring, a Quad Rings employs both squeeze and deflection to affect a seal. Quad Rings can be used in standard O-ring grooves or used in deeper Quad Rings specific grooves, resulting in less friction and longer seal life. Quad Rings grooves can also be narrower than O-ring grooves, as spiral failure is less of an issue. For Quad Rings groove recommendations, please go to our Groove Design Chart for Quad Rings.
All Seals stocks many different AS568 sized Quad Rings in either 70 durometer nitrile, or 75 durometer Viton®.
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Elastomeric, rubber O-rings suffer from high friction and limited resistance to aggressive chemicals and gas permeation. Solid Teflon® O-rings are rigid with no effective memory and high compression set. CHEM-RING Teflon Encapsulated O-rings combine the resilience and sealing force of an elastomer with the chemical resistance of Teflon®. This is accomplished by the use of an elastomeric core of silicone or Viton®, with a relatively thin encapsulation of Teflon® FEP or PFA polymer. This produces an elastomeric PTFE seal with maximum sealing capability.
FEP Encapsulated O-rings are solvent resistant and chemically inert (except for attack by alkaline metals, fluorine and some halogenated compounds at high temperatures) yet have an elastomeric memory near that of rubber O-rings. FEP polymer, also, has an extremely low coefficient of friction (.1 to .2) and very low permeability to gases, making CHEM-RINGS a virtually universal seal for use in hostile environments.
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Extrusion failure is one of the most common types of O-ring failure. When the internal pressure of an application becomes too great, the O-ring will actually extrude into the clearance gap. This extrudate will quickly be nibbled away causing a loss of material, and once sufficient material is lost, seal failure will quickly follow.
There are three options to prevent this, the first of which is to reduce the clearances to lower the extrusion gap. This is obviously an expensive option, so a cheaper solution is to raise the durometer of the O-ring. Although, a higher durometer O-ring offers superior extrusion resistance, is often not feasible solution due to material availablilty, and to the fact that harder durometer materials have limited low pressure sealability. The last and best option is the addition of a backup ring. A backup ring is a ring of hard, extrusion resistant material such as high durometer nitrile, nylon, Hytrel, or PTFE. A back-up ring is designed to fit between the O-ring and the extrusion gap and prevent the extrusion of the O-ring.
While back-up rings are used in conjunction with O-rings in both static and dynamic sealing applications, the gland they fit in must be specially designed to fit both the O-ring and the back-up.
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All Seals offers over twenty-five different O-ring kit and seal assortments in numerous shapes and sizes. Materials offered range from standard compounds such as multipurpose nitrile (Buna-N) rubber, to more exotic materials such as Viton® (generically called fluorocarbon) and Teflon® (also called PTFE).
All All Seals O-ring kits come in sturdy plastic containers produced in either translucent polypropylene or opaque and transparent styrene plastic. Each container includes helpful cards or labels indicating size and quantity of seals in each compartment. In order to facilitate re-sale of our O-ring kits, all our assortments are shipped in plain boxes, with generic labeling, for easy re-labeling and re-shipment.
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