Filter bag anchoring arrangement
AssigneeAmerican Air Filter Company, Inc.
InventorLeonard J. O'Dell
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Abstract
A filter anchoring arrangement for securing the dependent ends of a row of filter bags suspended from a common filter supporting plate in a bag house. The anchoring arrangement includes a gathering member and a retaining member cooperating with the gathering member to align and retain a docking pin projecting from the dependent end of each bag upon rotation of the gathering and retaining members into a bag-anchoring position.
Claims9
In a bag house including a plenum having an apertured filter bag support plate and at least one row of filter bags, each of said filter bags having a first end affixed to the plate in flow through communication with the plenum through a plate aperture and a free second end, the improvement comprising:
- a docking pin projecting from the second end of each filter bag;
- a gathering member and a retaining member rotatably supported within the bag house proximate said second ends of said filter bags in said row of bags;
- said gathering member including a plurality of generally adjacent guide portions, each of said guide portions corresponding to one of the bags and being operatively associated with its respective docking pin to guide the bag into alignment within the bag house upon predetermined rotation of the gathering member;
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- said retaining member extending generally parallel to said gathering member and cooperating with each of said guide portions of align and entrap the respective docking pins within said guide portions upon subsequent rotation of said retaining member into a preselected bag anchoring position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.