Slade Lantern Rings and Spacer Bushings

Slade is a globally recognized company with all manufacturing performed at their facility in the USA. Founder Bob Crosier started Slade by drawing on his lifetime of experience in the sealing industry.

Originally, Slade was to become a yarn manufacturer, supplying the packing industry with the first braidable expanded graphite yarn. Slade patented this newly developed technology in both its design and the machinery used to produce the graphite yarns.

In the years following, Slade not only produced that braidable expanded graphite yarn but also became a braided graphite packing manufacturer as well, the first of its kind. Slade has taken the raw materials of expanded graphite and high tensile strength carbon to form the finished product of a flexible, rope-style valve and pump graphite packing capable of high temperature and high pressure without the use of lubricating type binders.

Slade manufactures all of its own patented graphite yarns. The advantage is that each individual strand has its own unique core made of high tensile carbon fiber. The graphite yarns are protected by US & EU patents. They were developed to conduct heat like steel alloys, to transfer the heat away from the pump shaft and valve stem.

Slade Packing turns the stuffing box into a heat sink, conducting heat away from shaft, in many applications, eliminating expensive leakage previously needed to cool the stuffing box.​

Reduces Inventory and Cost​

By eliminating die-formed rings (cut-rings work fine)​

Handles most medias, 1-14 pH, eliminating many styles of packing​

In many applications, no need to remove old packing, just add a ring​

Lasts 4 to 6 times longer than traditional packings.​

Approvals & testing: API fire test certified, API 622, TA Luft tested

Slade valve packing

Slade Pump Packings​
​Slade is capable of handling the toughest of pump applications. Whether you are dealing with high temperatures, high pressures, heavy abrasives or virtually any other application, Slade has the right packing for your application.​

Soot Blower Packing​
Slade offers the best, most reliable Soot Blower seal technology, combining carbon fiber reinforced graphite foil with composite bearing rings. Sealing soot blowers under the toughest service conditions for extended service life and equipment reliability. Tests have proven the extended life of Slade Soot Blower Packing Sets with minimal wear and less amperage – even in extreme conditions outside typical usage.​

3300i Slade’s Best Emission Controlled API 622 Approved Valve Packing​
Reinforcement : Slade utilizes Inconel® 600 as a knitted jacket around our patented expanded graphite, carbon reinforced yarns​
Temp : Mild Oxidizers to 1000°C*​
Pressures : Valves to 414 bar (for higher pressures, consult factory)*​
pH Range : 0-14 (except in strong oxidizers)​

3300C Slade’s Cost-Effective Pump and Valve Packing​
Reinforcement : Each yarn of graphite foil is reinforced with high strength structural carbon fiber​
Temp : Mild Oxidizers to 1000°C*​
Pressures : Valves to 310 bar (for higher pressures, consult factory)*​
pH Range : 1-14​

3300W identical to 3300C but Inconel wire reinforced for higher pressures.​
Pressures : 350 bar​
3300LC identical to 3300C but for Low chloride, high purity for nuclear service​
3300LS identical to 3300C but Low sulfur, high purity for nuclear service​

3300G Slade’s Best All Purpose Pump and Valve Packing​
Reinforcement : Corners and yarns of graphite foil reinforced with high strength structural carbon fiber​
Temp : Mild Oxidizers to 1000°C*​
Pressures : Valves to 350 bar without end-rings*​
Pumps : Flush-free in many services to 1400 m/min)​
pH Range : 1-14​

3300GLC Identical to 3300G but Low chloride for nuclear service​
3300GLS Identical to 3300G but Low sulfur for nuclear service​

3300W Slade’s All-Around Best Valve Packing​
Reinforcement :Each yarn of graphite foil is reinforced with Inconel™ Foil shrouded in high strength carbon fiber​
Temp : Mild oxidizers to 1000°C*​
Pressures : Up to 350 bar*​

3300CJ Slade’s Anti-Extrusion Carbon Fiber Packing​
Description : Carbon fiber jacketed 3300C​
Pressures : Valves to 345 bar (for higher pressures, consult factory)*​
Application: Used as anti-extrusion end ring​

Enviro-Foil Spacer Bushings​
New Enviro-Foil spacer bushings replace carbon bushings for Slade’s valve repair customers.​
Slade’s patented technology for metallic foil inserted braiding yarns eliminates the machined carbon bushings used as spacers in stuffing boxes. ​

Slade Lantern Rings and Spacer Bushings

Our Way-2-Seal eliminates the need for a lantern ring, reduces the amount of packing required.​

How can the Way-2-Seal Solve Your Sealing Problems?​

  • Eliminates lantern rings and expensive machined bushings​
  • Can be used in valves to shorten stuffing box and reduce the number of packing rings​
  • Extremely simple installation​
  • Able to withstand temperatures up to 315°C​
  • Lowers emissions in valve applications​
  • Fits any size shaft or stuffing box​
  • Resistant to the most abrasive mediums

Slade Pump Packings​
​Slade is capable of handling the toughest of pump applications. Whether you are dealing with high temperatures, high pressures, heavy abrasives or virtually any other application, Slade has the right packing for your application.​

Soot Blower Packing​
Slade offers the best, most reliable Soot Blower seal technology, combining carbon fiber reinforced graphite foil with composite bearing rings. Sealing soot blowers under the toughest service conditions for extended service life and equipment reliability. Tests have proven the extended life of Slade Soot Blower Packing Sets with minimal wear and less amperage – even in extreme conditions outside typical usage.​

Slade gaskets

Pyro-Tex Woven Gasket Sheet
A resilient, compressed sheet… that works!​
Ready to be cut for use in severe conditions.​

Services​
Up to 310bar​
Up to 1000°C*​
High equipment wear (scratches/pores)​

Reinforced with Flat Metal​

Individual graphite foil weaving yarn is reinforced with stainless steal strips; Yarns are then woven; Woven compressed gasket sheet is then rolled into cardboard tubes for shipment.​
Available in sizes as large as 2000 x 4000 sheets​

Advantages​

  • ​Surface nodules promote flexibility and flow into oxidized surfaces & scratches, pores and steam cuts.​
  • Flat metallic leaf springs, jacketed with graphite foil, make this sheet the most resilient gasket you will need.​
  • It takes physical abuse like no other graphite foil, handling and feeling like tough leather.​
  • Pyro-Tex gasket sheet eliminates the need for a compressing ring to prevent crushing.​
  • Layering of sheets allows for greater thicknesses.​
  • Eliminates shipping pallets: Gasket Sheets individually packaged in 75 mm cardboard tubes for easy storage.​
  • Single sheet thickness: nominal 2 mm.​

Pyro-Tex Joint Sealants​

Slade’s self-forming gasket, the Pyro-Tex Joint Sealant, is made from patented graphite-foil encapsulated carbon-fiber reinforced yarns (also available with stainless-steel foil yarns). This self-forming gasket when in place is compressed to fit snugly. ​

  • Change gasket without pulling tube bundles​
  • Adhesive bonds in place during installation​
  • Self forms into endless gasket​
  • Made to virtually any thickness or width​
  • Never hardens or dries out​
  • Metallic reinforcement impedes extrusion​
  • Readjustable, often re-usable​
  • Individual strands reinforced with:​
    carbon fiber, 304 SS, or Inconel foil​
  • Packaged on plastic spools​
  • Inventory just one or two sizes​
  • Eliminates the need to remove heat exchanger tubes from the shell​

Performs better than:

  • Double jacketed metal gaskets
  • Spiral wound gaskets
  • Corrugated metal gaskets​

And also:

  • More reliable than PTFE joint sealants​
  • Eliminates large inventories​
  • Easier to Handle​
  • Stops damage from rough handling​
  • Doesn’t kink out of shape​
  • Adjusts to warped flanges​
  • Fills pits and scratches up to 3 mm deep​

    Pressures :Stainless & Inconel 300 bar (Carbon fiber version, low pressure services only)​
    Temperatures : for temperatures over 540°C, consult the factory​

Pyro-Tex Joint Sealant HP​

Pyro-Tex HP (high-pressure) Joint Sealant is made from the same patented stainless-steel foil yarns as our sheet (also available with carbon fiber reinforcement). ​

Change gasket without pulling tube bundles​
Adhesive bonds in place during installation​
Self forms into endless gasket​
Made to virtually any thickness or width​
Never hardens or dries out​
Metallic reinforcement impedes extrusion​
Readjustable, often re-usable​
Individual strands reinforced with:​
304 SS or Inconel foil​
Packaged on plastic spools​
Inventory just one or two sizes​
Eliminates the need to remove heat exchanger tubes from the shell​

Pressures : Stainless & Inconel versions 300 bar​
Temperatures : (for temperatures over 540°C, consult the factory) ​

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