What Are A, B, C, D , R, RIR, CG and CGI Types for Spiral Wound Gaskets?

Spiral wound gaskets are usually made of stainless steel strips such as SUS304 and SUS316, and graphite, asbestos, polytetrafluoroethylene, non-asbestos and other soft materials are wound around stainless steel strips. The beginning and the end of the metal strip are fixed by spot welding. The basic spiral wound gasket doesn't have inner and outer rings, and it is usually used for flanges with tongue and groove faces, plain faces or male and female faces in medium and low pressure.

Materials
1. Basic spiral wound metal strips
A. SUS304, SUS316L and SUS321 cold rolled steel strips with thickness from 0.15mm to 0.25mm can be adopted for basic spiral wound metal strips.
B. The metal strip is the preformed V-type or W-type narrow strip, and its surface should be smooth and clean. There should not be defects such as roughness, cracks, scratches, steel pits and rusty spots.
C. Hardness of stainless steel should be equal to or more than 200.

2. Basic spiral wound non-metallic strips
A. Non-metallic are filled with special asbestos, flexible graphite, PTFE, non-asbestos fiber, mica and other strips. The thicknesses of the strips are from 0.3 to 1.0mm.
B. Loss on ignition of special asbestos must be equal to or more than 25%.
C. The chloride ion content of non-metallic strips should be equal to or more than 100PPM.

Performance
Spiral wound gaskets have good compression and resilience performance and functions of multi sealing and certain self tightening. They are not sensitive to surface defects of flanges' sealing surfaces and don't stick to sealing surfaces of flanges, which can eliminate partial pressure. Spiral wound gaskets can keep their good sealing performance in the harsh conditions of high temperature, low temperature, high vacuum and shock vibration.

Applications
Static sealing of flanges' connection parts for pipes, valves, pressure vessels, condensers, heat exchangers, towers, manholes, hand holes of petroleum, chemical engineering, metallurgy, electricity, shipping, fuel gas, nuclear energy, aerospace, textile, pharmaceuticals, machinery and other industries.

Types, code names and applicative flanges of spiral wound gaskets
The basic type is used for tongue and groove faces, male and female faces, flat and groove faces.
The inner ring type is used for tongue and groove faces, male and female faces, flat and groove faces.
The locating ring type is used for flat faces or female faces.
The inner ring and locating ring type is used for flat faces or female faces.

The recommended temperature and pressure for various media and non-metallic strips