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US 12,544,701 B2Granted
Air cleaner frame
OwnerForwood C. Wiser, III, Aditya A. Patel +1inventors
InventorsForwood C. Wiser, III, Aditya A. Patel, George Robert Summers
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Abstract
An air filter has a mechanism for preventing blow-by around a perimeter of the filter. The air filter has two rigid frames surrounding a filter and at least one of the rigid frames comprises a brush seal track with a brush seal therein. The air filter includes a latching mechanism to engage the rigid frames to each other and a handle for installation and removal.
Claims7
An air filter comprising:
- two rigid frames surrounding a filter, wherein at least one of the rigid frames includes a rail including an outer surface facing away from the filter, wherein each of the two rigid frames comprises four connected rails that form a rectangle;
- a latch mechanism located on the rail outer surface of one of the two rigid frames, and a latching element located on the other of the two rigid frames at a rail outer surface thereof, wherein the latch mechanism engages the latching element to removably engage the rigid frames to one another
- wherein at least one of the latch mechanism or latching element rotates about a latch mechanism axis that extends through an open channel within a rail outer surface of the one rigid frame
- wherein the latch mechanism axis extends through the open channel within the rail outer surface;
- wherein the latch mechanism axis is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the open channel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.