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A shaft seal packing exhibiting high sealing ability in initial assembly and also exhibiting, even after the packing is retightened, excellent sealing ability by an increased seal surface pressure obtained through an effect of pressing and by self-sealing ability obtained through an effect of fluid pressure. A valve element installed in a valve body is provided so as to be rotatable about or liftable along a valve shaft. The shaft seal packing is installed in a shaft seal chamber of a valve in which the valve shaft is set. The shaft seal packing is used for a shaft seal structure for the valve, and in the shaft seal packing, annular packing bodies having a generally V-shape cross- section are stacked on each other, the stack surfaces on the inner diameter side are made to be in intimate contact with each other, and a predetermined gap is formed between adjacent stack surfaces on the outer diameter side. In the shaft seal structure, force applied to the packing bodies by tightening force and fluid pressure is converted into radial force by the taper angle of the stack surface on the inner diameter side. This causes the inner peripheral surfaces of the packing bodies on the inner diameter side and the outer peripheral surface of the valve shaft on the sliding side are sealed between each other by surface contact, and also the gaps allow lip parts on the outer diameter side to be pushed and expanded, causing the lip parts and the shaft seal chamber on the fixed side to be sealed between each other by line contact.

A clamping device supports or structurally replaces a weld joint between connected pipes. The clamping device includes an upper clamp body and a lower clamp body securable on opposite sides of the connected pipes in facing relation, and at least one clamp bolt connecting the upper and lower clamp bodies and extendable through the connected pipes. One of the upper and lower clamp bodies has at least one shaped depression, which receives a complementary shaped clamp bolt nut engageable with the clamp bolt. The shaped depression prevents rotation of the clamp bolt nut.

A lockup device 5 includes a damper mechanism 7, a plate 56, a plate 57, a piston 51, and a plate 59. The damper mechanism 7 has a plate 52 rotating together with the turbine 10, and plates 53 and 54 rotatable with respect to the plate 52. The plate 56 is unrotatable and axially movable with respect to the plates 53 and 54. The plate 57 is unrotatable and axially movable with respect to the front cover 2, and is arranged on the turbine side of the plate 52. The piston 51 is arranged on the turbine side of the plate 56, and is elastically and unrotatably coupled in an axial direction to the plates 53 and 54 through the plate 59.