Fluid filter housing and assembly
AssigneeAmerican Air Filter Company, Inc.
InventorRichard D. Rivers
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Abstract
A fluid filter housing and assembly therefor including a housing with a flow-through inlet and a flow-through outlet, the housing having channels of U-shaped cross section with open tops extending around the perimeter of the flow-through inlet to receive filter assemblies therein, the channels having fluid filtering material therein, the filter assemblies having continuous downwardly extending members along the outer periphery thereof, the downwardly extending members being received by the channels whereby gases passing around the filter assemblies pass through the filtering material so that leakage of fluids around the sealing between the filter assemblies and the housing are treated by the filter material in the seal prior to passing to the housing outlet.
Claims8
A fluid filter housing and assembly comprising:
- a housing having a flow-through inlet and a flow-through outlet therein;
- said housing having a channel of U-shaped cross section with an open top extending along the inner periphery of said flow-through inlet, and including fluid filtering material therein;
- and,
- a replaceable filter assembly disposed within said housing in flow-through communication with said inlet and said outlet, said filter assembly having a continuous downwardly extending member along the outer periphery thereof, said member being received by said U-shaped channel whereby gases passing around said filter assembly pass through said filtering material in said U-shaped channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.