Filter for an air-conditioning system of a vehicle and a method of installing such a filter
AssigneeGroove Technologies, Inc.
InventorsFred Massey, Owen Massey
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Abstract
A filter for an air conditioner has a body formed of an air-transmissive material. The body is of a generally rectangular configuration and has a top, bottom, a front, a back and a pair of sides. The body has a plurality of cuts formed through a thickness thereof. The plurality of cuts define a plurality of cubical or rectangular members frangibly connected together. The plurality of cubical or rectangular members are separable from a remainder of the body such that the body has a size suitable for being received within a filter-receiving receptacle of the air conditioner.
Claims19
A filter for an air conditioner, the filter comprising:
- a body formed of an air-transmissive material, said body being of a generally rectangular configuration, said body having a top and a bottom and a front and a back and a pair of sides, said body having a plurality of cuts extending entirely through a thickness thereof from the top to the bottom, the plurality of cuts defining a plurality of cubical or rectangular members frangibly connected together such that each of the plurality of cubical or rectangular member is separable by hand from a reminder of said body.
A filter for an air conditioner of a vehicle, the filter comprising:
- a body formed of an air-transmissive material, said body being of a generally square or rectangular configuration, said body having a top and a bottom and a front and a back and a pair of sides, said body having a plurality of cuts through a thickness thereof, the plurality of cuts defining a plurality of cubical or rectangular members frangibly connected together such that each of the plurality of cubical or rectangular members is separable by hand from a remainder of said body such that an individual cubical or rectangular member of the plurality of cubical or rectangular members is removable along both a portion of a length and a portion of a width of said body.
The method of installing a filter into a filter-receiving receptacle of an air conditioner of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- removing an existing filter from the filter-receiving receptacle;
- forming a body of air-transmissive material;
- cutting slits through the body such that a plurality of cubical or rectangular members are frangibly connected together, the cut slits extending lengthwise and widthwise across the body so as to form the plurality of cubical or rectangular members;
- hand separating some of the plurality of cubical members from a remainder of the body until the body is of a size no less than the size of the existing filter;
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- inserting the body with the size no less than the size of the existing filter into the filter-receiving receptacle of the air conditioner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.