Filter for an air-conditioning system of a vehicle and a method of installing such a filter
OwnerFred Massey, Owen Masseyinventors
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Abstract
A filter for an air conditioner has a body formed of an air-transmissive material. The body is of a generally rectangular configuration and has a top, bottom, a front, a back and a pair of sides. The body has a plurality of cuts formed through a thickness thereof. The plurality of cuts define a plurality of cubical members frangibly connected together. The plurality of cubical members are separable from a remainder of the body such that the body has a size suitable for being received within a filter-receiving receptacle of the air conditioner.
Claims16
A filter for an air conditioner of a vehicle, the filter comprising:
- a body formed entirely of an air-transmissive open-cell polymeric material, said body being of a generally rectangular configuration, said body having a top and a bottom and a front and a back and a pair of sides, said body having a plurality of cuts extending entirely through a thickness thereof from the top to the bottom, the plurality of cuts defining a plurality of cubical members frangibly connected together such that each of the plurality of cubical members is separable by hand from a reminder of said body such that an individual cubical member of the plurality of cubical members is removable along both of a portion of a length and a portion of a width of said body.
A filter for an air conditioner of a vehicle, the filter comprising:
- a body formed entirely of an air-transmissive material, said body being of a generally rectangular configuration, said body having a top and a bottom and a front and a back and a pair of sides, said body having a plurality of cuts extending entirely through a thickness thereof from the top to the bottom, the plurality of cuts defining a plurality of cubical members frangibly connected together, said body having no frame around a periphery thereof and no support surface on the top or the bottom thereof, the plurality of cuts extending lengthwise and widthwise across said body such that an individual cubical member of the plurality of cubical members is removable along both of a portion of a length and a portion of a width of said body.
A method of installing a filter into a filter-receiving receptacle of an air conditioner of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- removing an existing filter from the filter-receiving receptacle;
- forming a body entirely of air-transmissive open-cell polymeric material having a plurality of cubical members frangibly connected together, the step of forming comprising:
- cutting slits entirely through the body such that the plurality of cubical members are frangibly connected together, the cut slits extending lengthwise across the body and widthwise across the body so as to form the plurality of cubical members;
- hand separating some of the plurality of cubical members from a remainder of the body until the body is of a size no less than the size of the existing filter such that an individual cubical member of the plurality of cubical members is separable along both of a portion of a length and a portion of a width of said body;
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- inserting the body with the size no less than the size of the existing filter into the filter-receiving receptacle of the air conditioner of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.