Packing vs Gasket - What's the difference?
packing | gasket |
The action of the verb.
# The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
# (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
# The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
# (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
As a concrete noun.
# Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
# Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
# A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
# Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
::::*Examples: Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column
Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.
A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration.
Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.