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Taper-Lok® is a connection specialist, providing a small, lighter weight, high integrity sealing technology. The Taper-Lok® technology excels in extreme conditions, such as: high pressure and temperature, cryogenics, and all hard to hold volatiles and low molecular weight gasses.

The powerful differentiate of the Taper-Lok® connection is in the design of the tapered seal ring geometry. The affective sealing surfaces of the seal ring, contact both the male and female flange walls, creating a substantial wide area seal. The Taper-Lok® geometry provides as much as 20 times more sealing surface area compared to the single point or line contact seal of the conventional ANSI, API (RTJ) and clamp-type designs.

Taper-Lok® connections are "Self-Energizing" connection by ASME, Appendix 2, Section 8, code qualifications, the required bolt loads for the operating conditions are only necessary to resist the hydrostatic end forces exerted by the maximum working pressure on the area bounded by the outside diameter of the seal ring gasket. In practical application as the bolts are tightened to the recommended pre-load, the seal ring is placed in hoop compression and slides into the female flange pocket. As the seal ring is seated into the female pocket a restoring force exists in the seal ring and the seal ring acts much like that of a compressed spring. In that the action of "Bolt-Up" seats and compresses the seal ring, the complementing action of being "Self Energized" under operating conditions, imparts an even tighter seal, as the internal pressure acts on the wedge shape geometry of the seal ring creating greater tension on the wide area sealing surfaces, effectively creating a leak free, zero fugitive emissions connection.