What is an Air Mizer^® Shaft Seal?

What is an Air Mizer Shaft Seal?

Hi, I’m Chris Solfelt with Inpro/Seal and in this video, I’m going to talk about how the Inpro/Seal Air Mizer shaft seal helps prevent leakage to save you money.

Product handling applications like mixers, blenders, agitators, and extruders often suffer from product leakage due to unreliable sealing. In these applications, product can migrate down the shaft, through the sealing device, and into the atmosphere. This type of leakage leads to lost product, higher production costs, increased maintenance, environmental concerns, and unsafe working conditions

Conventional shaft seals, such as packing, mechanical seals, and lip seals, rely on contact with the shaft or between sealing faces as the sealing mechanism. Due to friction, they wear easily and, even in perfect conditions, have a finite life. Yet perfect conditions are rarely found for these applications. Shaft movement, misalignment, and vibration are common, all of which cause serious problems that lead to seal failure.

The Inpro/Seal Air Mizer is a permanent, maintenance-free shaft seal designed to handle these challenging conditions. Its unique technology uses small amounts of air or inert gas as a barrier around the shaft to safeguard against both product loss and contamination and is maintenance-free with no wearing parts, allowing it to last the lifetime of your equipment.

Unlike conventional shaft seals, the Air Mizer fully articulates to accommodate radial run-out, axial movement, and angular misalignment simultaneously. This allows it to operate successfully in the most challenging conditions without wear or constant maintenance.

Air Mizer shaft seals effectively seal powders, liquids, slurries, and bulk solids and are custom-engineered, incorporating a variety of design features and materials, to fit your specific application and operating environment.

To learn more about Air Mizer shaft seals, visit inpro-seal.com.