Abstract:
A holding device for a filter element is disclosed. More particularly, the holding device includes a body having upper and lower surfaces. The lower surface is sized and shaped so as to engage an end of an associated filter element. The holding device also includes a compressible member, which is positioned on the upper surface of the body, and a connecting mechanism for directly and movably connecting the body to a body of at least one other identical holding device.
Abstract:
A filter device for separating solid material from a liquid includes a filter housing with vertically extending removable sidewalls wherein at the location of the removable sidewalls connections are provided to receive two vertically extending sidewalls in spaced parallel relationship whereby a fluid impermeable sidewall may be inserted into the circumferential section of the housing when a liquid permeable section is removed for cleaning without interfering with the continual operation of the filter device.
Abstract:
A waste water filtering apparatus includes a vertically extending filter housing having a plurality of filter tubes disposed therein. At least one of the filter tubes has an opening in the bottom end thereof and is closed at the top wherein waste water to be filtered flows in through the interior of the filter tube and out through openings in the walls of the filter tube into the interior of the filter housing. A second filter tube is provided with a closed bottom end and an open outlet end in flow communication with a discharge outlet from the filter housing. The second filter tube is in spaced parallel relation with the first filter tube whereby water flowing in the interior of the housing flows into the second filter tube and flows upwardly and out of openings in the top end of the filter tube which is in flow communication with the outlet discharge of the filter.
Abstract:
This invention is a filtration structure characterized by radial fluid flow through the wall of a cylindrical configuration that is established by a stack of serrated annular wafers which are constrained for slight axial movement with respect to each other, for the establishment of two conditions. In one condition, the wafers are axially compressed into snug contact under spring bias to establish a labyrinth of radial passages for fluid flow at a selected pressure. In the other condition, the axial compression of the disks is relieved and the disks are slightly separated by back flushing under an elevated pressure in such a way that cleansing is freely effected by reverse fluid flow.
Abstract:
The invention provides a liquid filter which is economically fabricated from commercially available flat and tubular plastics stock. The filter is openable from the top of replace filter elements carried by filter pipes that are rigid with the lower casing structure, all without disturbing the inlet and outlet fittings of the filter. At the casing top there is a connector block which has both such fittings and which is permanently attached to the lower casing structure. Removably attached to the connector block is a cap construction which has an outlet manifold passage that communicates, via a separable joint, with the outlet fitting of the connector block. Non-leak separable sealing joints are provided between the filter pipes and the cap construction, at the manifold passage.
Abstract:
A filter apparatus including a plurality of demountable filter cartridges which each include a replacement filter element. The cartridges are mounted in the upper portion of a bi-level partition that extends across a tank having an inlet below the partition and an outlet above the lower portion of the partition at a height to be bisected by the upper surface of the upper portion of the partition. A plurality of filter apertures through the partition each receive a cartridge and each cartridge is held in place via studs that screw into the partition and received in channels formed in a header portion of the cartridge so that the cartridge can be inserted into an aperture and turned to engage the shanks of the studs with the channels in the cartridge header. The headers of the cartridges are constructed in two parts and connected by a tubular connector having threads of opposite senses on its periphery and in its bore to be screwed into one part of the header and over a threaded projection on the other part of the header to clamp the two pieces of the header together about an O-ring that seals the cartridge to the aperture wall.
Abstract:
Filter assembly for filtering solids from molten aluminum metal comprises at least one open-ended rigid refractory filter tube having an interior passageway, a bottom plate acting to close one end of such tube, a top plate having an aperture communicating with the interior passageway of such filter tube, and means, such as a tie bolt, with a fastener device to maintain the top and bottom plate and the interposed filter tube or tubes in sealed relationship so that the molten metal will flow through the walls of the rigid refractory filter tube without leakage at the ends or joints, to efficiently remove solid contaminants from the metal. The plates and tie rod or the like are of metal resistant to attack by molten aluminum, advantageously of cast iron. The refractory material of the tubes contains refractory particles resistant to molten aluminum and a bonding agent containing not over 10 percent silica.
Abstract:
A precoat filter cartridge for removing impurites from a liquid, comprising: a rigid tubular core element having holes therein, said holes having a total area in the range of 3 to 9 percent of the total surface area of said core element; a layer of course screen wrapped about said core element; and a layer of fine mesh screen wrapped about said layer of course screen.
Abstract:
A solvent filter particularly designed for drycleaning plants, comprising a filtering assembly consisting of a plurality of elongated filtering elements supported by, radially extending from and evenly spaced about a shaft rotatably supported within a stationary casing coaxial to said assembly and provided with inwardly protruding ridges adapted for promoting a turbulent motion of the liquid in the spaces confined between adjacent filtering elements when said assembly is rotated within said casing, whereby the liquid is caused to lap the surface of said element and sweep the exhausted filtering powder and dirt thereof.
Abstract:
1,239,068. Filter. BOWSER Inc. 29 Nov., 1698 [4 March, 1968], No. 56763/68. Heading B1D. [Also in Division F2] A filter comprising a plurality of inwardflow filter cartridges clamped into engagement with respective apertures in a tube plate 28, dividing their common housing (Fig. 1, not shown), has spring-loaded valves which close the apertures when corresponding cartridges are withdrawn or incorrectly inserted. Fig. 2 shows a valve, whose body 52 is sealed into an aperture in plate 28, with axially movable valve sleeve 66 closing the outlet openings 86, annular gaskets 62 and 64 engaging seats 56, 58 above and below the openings. The lower end of a filter cartridge engages crossbar 84 to depress the valve sleeve, when the cartridge is inserted in the upper end of the valve body (Fig. 3, not shown). Ports 88 equalise pressures on the two ends of the valve sleeve, and the relative areas of gaskets 62, 64 ensure a net upward force on sleeve 66 when the valve is closed. Fig. 4 (not shown) illustrates an alternative valve with outlet openings in a single frusto-conical seat. The tops of the cartridges are engaged by pins (42) on clamping plate (44). When assembling the valve, sleeve 66 is inserted in the body before lower closure disc 78 is sealed into place.