Individually pin-supported filter units for a clean room system
AssigneeHEPA Corporation
InventorsPeter Jeanseau, Richard Braman
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Abstract
A clean room filter array including a plurality of individual filter units arranged for delivery of filtered air to a clean room is supported by an individual suspension assembly including a fastener pin at outturned flanges of each filter unit that is unshared with any other filter unit so that the filter unit of a frame and fixed filter media is shiftable to and from the array independently of shifting the position or orientation of the other filter units or altering their respective suspension assemblies.
Claims10
A clean room filter array comprising a common support suspended from a ceiling, a plurality of individual filter units arranged for delivery of filtered air to a clean room, each said individual filter unit comprising a frame and filter media fixed in said frame, said frame having an outturned flange, each said filter unit having an individual suspension assembly unshared with any other filter unit and suspending said filter unit from said common support by its said outturned flange, whereby each said filter unit of frame and fixed filter media is shiftable to and from the array independently of shifting the position or orientation of the other filter units or altering their respective suspension assemblies.
In combination:
- a common support suspended from a ceiling, an individual filter unit adapted for arrangement in an array of filter units for delivery of filter air to a clean room, and an individual filter unit suspension assembly adapted for suspending said filter unit from said common support without said filter unit and unshared with any other filter unit;
- said filter unit comprising a frame wall having first and second pairs of opposed frame wall sections and filter media mounted within said frame wall, each frame wall section of said first pair of frame wall sections having an upper edge and a lower edge and a predetermined vertical height therebetween and an outturned flange located between said wall section upper and lower edges, each said outturned flange defining fastening structure, said individual filter unit suspension assembly comprising a fastening pin movably mounted to each said outturned flange at its said fastening structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.