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US 5,833,848 AGranted
Filter for high-viscosity fluids
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsKenichi Tominari, Akio Kanezawa, Yasujiro Shigeta, Eiji Tada
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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsKenichi Tominari, Akio Kanezawa, Yasujiro Shigeta, Eiji Tada
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A filter for high-viscosity fluids can be used in small to large-sized units, shows no thermal deterioration of the contents, and allows simple, rapid, and safe exchanging of the filter units and has a structure in which at least one filter element is built in, such that when a filter unit having an inlet opening and an outlet opening has the aforementioned inlet opening attached to the outlet opening of the unit on the upstream side and the aforementioned outlet opening attached to the inlet opening of the unit on the downstream side, two supporting plates, one fixed and one movable, are attached to an inlet-side adapter and an outlet-side adapter, the aforementioned filter unit is surrounded by said fixed supporting plate and movable supporting plate, and by moving the movable supporting plate, the various connecting parts can be closed and opened.
A rapid change filter system comprising a filter element having an inlet opening and an outlet opening wherein the inlet opening is connected via an inlet-side adapter to an outlet opening of an upstream unit on the upstream side and the outlet opening is connected via an outlet-side adapter to an inlet opening of a downstream unit on the downstream side, two supporting plates, one fixed and one movable, which are attached to the inlet-side adapter and the outlet-side adapter, wherein
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