Fleece filters for use in aquatic installations

A fleece filter for use in an aquatic installation, the fleece filter for use with a fleece roll of fresh fleece with a free fleece end, the fleece filter comprising:

• (a) a feed reel for holding the fleece roll for dispensing fresh fleece;
• (b) a take-up reel opposite said feed reel for taking up soiled fleece;
• (c) an upright filter chamber including:
• i) a pair of opposite upright spaced apart primary filter chamber plates having uppermost primary filter chamber plate edges, lowermost primary filter chamber plate edges and inside primary filter chamber plate surfaces facing towards one another,
• ii) a pair of opposite upright spaced apart secondary filter chamber plates transverse to said pair of opposite upright primary filter chamber plates, said pair of secondary filter chamber plates having uppermost secondary filter chamber plate edges and lowermost secondary filter chamber plate edges, and a secondary filter chamber plate of said pair of secondary filter chamber plates including a polluted water inlet for enabling an inflow of polluted water;
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• (d) a fleece retainer towards said lowermost primary filter chamber plate edges and said lowermost secondary filter chamber plate edges for intimately retaining fleece against said inside primary filter chamber surfaces on being extended between said feed reel and said take-up reel,
• said fleece retainer being manually sliding downwardly insertable into said filter chamber for intimately retaining fleece against said inside primary filter chamber place surfaces and manually sliding upwardly removable therefrom for releasing fleece from said inside primary filter chamber plate surfaces without interruption of said inflow of polluted water into the fleece filter,
• said fleece retainer including a fleece retainer inlet for flow communication with said polluted water inlet on deployment of said fleece retainer in said filter chamber,
• said fleece retainer including a fleece retainer outlet in flow communication with said fleece retainer inlet, whereby said fleece retainer enables said inflow of polluted water from said polluted water inlet into said filter chamber via said fleece retainer inlet and said fleece retainer outlet,
• said inflow of polluted water being filtered to an outflow of filtered water on passing outwardly through an intimately fleece lined grating formed in at least one of said pair of primary filter chamber plates and said fleece retainer.