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US 5,047,148 AGranted
Retained wire filter element
OwnerKoichi Araiinventor
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Abstract
A filter element for filter systems, which comprises a plurality of plate members having a number of apertures therethrough and cutout grooves formed in the surface thereof, a plurality of wire members each having a retaining leg portion, which is inserted into one of the grooves of the plate member, whereby the top surfaces of the wire members are flashed in a definite plane for forming a plurality of slits for filtering a liquid.
Claims15
A filter element including, in combination:
- a) a plurality of filter wire members each having a definite cross-section and a retaining portion;
- b) a plate member having a plurality of apertures formed therein, and having a plurality of longitudinal grooves formed in the top surface thereof;
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- c) a plurality of longitudinal filtering slits formed by said plurality of filter wire members being retained in said longitudinal grooves by said retaining portions thereof.
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A filter element including, in combination:
- a) a plate member having a plurality of apertures formed therein and having a plurality of longitudinal grooves formed in the top surface thereof, said longitudinal grooves having a broadened portion provided at the bottom thereof;
- b) a plurality of filter wire members each having a definite cross-section, each of said wire members having a retaining legs formed thereon, each of said retaining legs having provided with an enlarged portion complimentary in shape to said broadened portion of said longitudinal grooves;
- c) a plurality of longitudinal filtering slits formed by said plurality of filter wire members being retained in said longitudinal grooves by said retaining legs of said filter wire members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.