Filter apparatus

Abstract

A filter device for cleaning particulate contaminants from a fluid flow, comprising a plurality of filter elements (34, 60) which are accommodated in filter chambers (12, 14, 32) as components of a joint filter housing (10) and are grouped around a backwash device (20) having a piston accumulator (56) for receiving a backwash fluid, in the storage housing (64) of which piston accumulator a piston (57) is guided in a longitudinally movable manner, which, controlled by a pressure medium, passes on the backwash fluid stored in the storage housing (64) on to at least one filter element (60) to be backwashed for cleaning purposes via a backwash device (20), which also discharges the backwash fluid from the filter device, is characterized in that a specific filter element as a bypass filter element (34), which is selected from the plurality of filter elements (34, 60), exclusively removes particles after a changeover device (18) has been actuated, and the other filter elements (60) are excluded from this removal process.

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