c and has traveled past one or more sealing rings 8 a 8 b 8 c 8 d can be collected and drained into the outer chamber 15 via the passage 14 the outer chamber 15 communicates via a drainage line 16 for example with a suction pump not shown that can suck medium which has been stripped off and separated e g lubricating oil out of the outer chamber 15 on the piston side the seal arrangement 1 according to the invention has a second seal housing part in the form of a cover 5 which covers the housing part 4 and likewise has an opening 7 through which the piston rod 105 extends the housing cover seal housing part 5 here is embodied so that a seal packet 20 composed of one out of at least two but preferably several sealing rings 8 a 8 b 8 c 8 d and the corresponding spacer elements 9 a 9 b 9 c provided is secured without play or virtually without play in the seal housing composed of the seal housing parts 4 and 5 in the following the seal packet 20 which is composed of at least two sealing rings 8 a 8 b and at least one spacer ring 9 a is referred to for the sake of simplicity by the reference numeral 20 in a particularly preferred embodiment a wavy lock washer not shown can be provided which is positioned so that it surrounds the piston rod 105 for example between a sealing ring 8 b and the second seal housing part and prestresses the seal packet 20 in the axial direction 3 the seal.