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US 4,304,579 AGranted
Extended area bag filter
AssigneeCeleste Industries Corporation
InventorsRichard C. Granville, Thomas G. Frazier
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Abstract
A seamless expandable bag filter of nonwoven material using conventional filtering media and having 62% greater extended area than other commercially available extended arm filters and incorporating broad, flat sealing collars or plates on each side of the neck of the bag and sealing them together to insure a no-leak installation.
Claims6
A seamless extended-area bag filter made of conventional filtering media comprising:
- (a) a seamless bag of substantially globular shape having longitudinally-formed crimps throughout its length and having a crimped neck having a flange, said flange, positioned transversely to the length of the bag,
- (b) top and bottom broad sealing collars, said crimped flange positioned between said collars,
- (c) means for sealing the collars together in face-to-face relation and sandwiching said flange therebetween
- whereby filtrate coming into said bag will fully extend the bag to globular shape when it becomes filled.
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A method of constructing a seamless extended-area bag filter comprising the steps:
- (a) assembling a formed draw-punch having a flange and die in a punch press;
- (b) placing a bottom sealing means in concentric relation on top of said die;
- (c) placing a bottom sealing collar of heat-sealable material in concentric relation on top of said bottom sealing means;
- (d) placing a blank of filter media in concentric relation on top of said bottom filter collar;
- (e) placing a top sealing collar of heat-sealable material in concentric relation on top of said blank of filter media;
- (f) placing a top sealing means in concentric relation on top of said top filter annulus;
- (g) inserting said formed draw-punch under pressure in concentric relation in said top collar up to the extended area of said bag filter;
- (h) forming a crimped flange about the neck of the same;
- (i) sealing said top and bottom collars with said crimped flange therebetween;
- and
- (j) ejecting the bag filter from said die.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.