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US 4,391,709 AGranted
Filter cake control method and apparatus
AssigneeIndustrial Filter & Pump Mfg. Co.
InventorHenry Schmidt, Jr.
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Abstract
Cake control members are mounted at the peripheries of filter leaves and filter tubes to confine the build-up of filter cakes and prevent the cakes from extending over the peripheries of the elements.
Claims10
A filter leaf for use in a pressure filter of the type including cake compression diaphragm means disposed in spaced, coplanar relationship with one face of said leaf for movement against a filter cake deposited on said face during operation of said filter, comprising
- a generally planar support structure adapted to be mounted in an upright, vertical position in said filter,
- means mounted on said support structure for providing a vertically disposed perforate surface on which solids entrained in a liquid passed through said surface are deposited to form said filter cake over said surface, and
- elastomeric cake control means positioned across the top of said perforate surface and extending laterally therefrom for sealing engagement with said diaphragm means when said diaphragm means moves toward said perforate surface to compress said filter cake against said perforate surface.
In a pressure filter, the combination of
- a filter leaf having a cavity disposed between first and second planar, mutually parallel, perforate surfaces,
- first and second cake compression diaphragms respectively disposed in spaced parallel relationship with said perforate surfaces for movement toward said perforate surfaces to compress filter cakes deposited on said surfaces during the operation of said filter,
- cake control means extending laterally from said leaf in proximity to the periphery thereof to prevent said filter cake from building up over the periphery of said filter leaf,
- said cake control means comprising an elastomeric member which is spaced from said diaphragms during operation of said filter and is sealably engaged by said diaphragms when said diaphragms move toward said perforate surfaces to compress said filter cakes.
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In a pressure filter, the combination comprising
- a filter leaf including a support structure having first and second mutually parallel, planar, vertically disposed perforate surfaces on opposite sides of a cavity in said leaf,
- elastomeric cake control means positioned across the top of said perforate surfaces and extending laterally therefrom,
- a pair of cake compression diaphragm means respectively disposed in spaced, coplanar relationship with said perforate surfaces and in spaced relationship with said cake control means and movable toward said surfaces against filter cakes deposited on said surfaces during the operation of said filter, and
- said diaphragm means sealably engaging said cake control means while moving toward said perforate surfaces and compressing said filter cakes against said perforate surfaces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.