Supporting device and method of manufacturing

Abstract

A supporting device for a filter device including a flat-woven material manufactured of warp devices and weft devices, which form a woven surface, wherein the flat-woven material shows, in two opposite end portions, two free ends of warp devices or weft devices protruding from the woven surface. The flat-woven material is shaped to form a predetermined three-dimensional shape with a free cross-section, and the free ends overlap and are interconnected. The present method provides for shaping the flat-woven material around a molding part until the free ends of the two end portions overlap. The ends are interconnected. A filtering device accordingly includes a supporting device and a filter device.

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