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US 5,350,515 AGranted
Internally potted end cap for a pleated filter medium
AssigneeW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
InventorsStephen Stark, Raymond Wnenchak
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Abstract
The invention comprises a filter cartridge including a cylindrical filter medium potted into a top cap, and having an internally potted bottom closure molded in place inside the filter medium.
Claims7
A filter cartridge comprising:
- (a) a cylindrically shaped, pleated filter medium closed at both ends by a potting medium;
- (b) one end of said filter medium being potted into the medium,
- (c) the other end being substantially entirely closed by potting medium located entirely inside the filter medium so that no potting medium forms on the outside of the filter medium nor protrudes on the outer surface of the medium, said potting medium situated such that the area between each pleat is entirely closed with potting medium and is continuous from pleat to pleat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.