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US 6,345,721 B1Granted
Filter element including a baffle plate and end cap adhesively bonded thereto
AssigneeDonaldson Company, Inc.
InventorsReynold Frederick Durre, John Francis Connelly
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Abstract
A filter assembly including a filter element having an extension of filter material potted in an end cap, the potting adhesive material potting the filtering material into the end cap and further adhering the end cap to a hub of a baffle plate. The end cap is an open end cap having an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter defined by a portion of the hub.
Claims14
A filter arrangement comprising:
- (a) a first open end cap having an interior surface, an exterior surface, a closed outer perimeter, an open inner perimeter, and a transverse wall extending therebetween;
- (b) an extension of filtering material potted in said first open end cap at said interior surface by an adhesive material;
- said extension of filter material defining an internal volume;
- said exterior surface of said first end cap facing in a direction away from said filtering material;
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- (c) a baffle plate adjacent said exterior surface of said first end cap, said baffle plate including a hub, said hub having an aperture extending into and in open communication with said internal volume, said hub extending through an opening of said first end cap and contacting said adhesive material, said adhesive material being within said first open end cap and adhering said interior surface of said first open end cap to said hub.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.