Shaker screen assembly with molded support rail
AssigneeContinental Wire Cloth, LLC
InventorJames R. Bissett
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Abstract
A shaker screen comprising a panel defining a plurality of openings therein, the panel having an upper surface and a lower surface. A plurality of mesh screens is attached to the panel, and separately formed side rails are connected to the panel at first and second sides thereof. The side rails have a connecting hook at a first end thereof and a receiving slot at a second end thereof. The receiving slot is configured to receive the connecting hook at the first end of a side rail of an adjacent shaker screen and the receiving slot is covered by the panel.
Claims20
A shaker screen comprising:
- a panel defining a plurality of openings therein, the panel having an upper surface and a lower surface;
- a plurality of mesh screens attached to the panel;
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- separately formed first and second side rails connected to the panel at first and second sides thereof, the side rails having a connecting hook at a first end thereof and a receiving slot at a second end thereof, the receiving slot configured to receive the connecting hook at the first end of a side rail of an adjacent shaker screen, the receiving slot being covered by the panel.
A shaker screen assembly comprising:
- a first perforated panel having an upper surface and a lower surface, and having first and second sides;
- a plurality of mesh screens attached to the panel;
- first and second side rails connected to the first perforated panel and extending along a length of the first perforated panel at the first and second sides thereof, the first and second side rails connected to the first perforated panel having an upwardly extending connecting hook at a first end thereof and a receiving slot at a second end thereof, the receiving slots in the first and second side rails connected to the first perforated panel being covered by the first perforated panel;
- a second perforated panel having an upper surface and a lower surface;
- a plurality of mesh screens attached to the second perforated panel;
- first and second side rails connected to the second perforated panel and extending along a length of the second perforated panel at the first and second sides thereof, the first and second side rails connected to the second perforated panel having an upwardly extending connecting hook at a first end thereof and a receiving slot at a second end thereof, the receiving slots in the first and second side rails connected to the second perforated panel being covered by the first perforated panel;
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- the connecting hooks on the first and second side rails connected to the first perforated panel being received in the receiving slots of the first and second side rails connected to the second perforated panel, the receiving slots being covered by the first and second panels.
A shaker screen comprising:
- a first perforated panel having an upper surface and a lower surface;
- a plurality of mesh screens attached to the perforated panel;
- first and second separately formed triangularly shaped side rails connected to the first perforated panel at first and second sides thereof;
- a connecting hook at a first end of the first and second side rails;
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- a receiving slot defined in the first and second side rails at a second end thereof, the receiving slot in each of the first and second side rails being hidden by the first perforated panel, the receiving slots configured to receive connecting hooks of first and second side rails connected to a second perforated panel positioned adjacent the first perforated panel.
A shaker screen assembly comprising first and second shaker screens as claimed in claim the connecting hooks of the first shaker screen being received in the receiving slots of the second shaker screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.