Flexible dip tube filter with weight
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Calmar Inc.
InventorsJoseph R. Krestine, Linn D. Wanbaugh
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Abstract
A flexible dip tube for a hand held sprayer has a filter element with a projection extending into the distal end of the dib tube for frictionally mounting the filter element thereto, the other end of the filter element extending beyond the distal end and containing filter material in communication with the interior of the tube, and a weight surrounding both the distal end and the projection of the filter element or weighting down the distal end during use.
Claims7
A flexible dip tube for a hand held sprayer, comprising an elongated tubular body having a proximate end for connection to the sprayer and a distal end for extension into a container to which the sprayer is to be mounted, a filter element having one end extending into said distal end for frictionally mounting the filter element thereto, the opposite end of the filter element extending beyond said distal end and containing filter material in communication with the interior of the tubular body, a weight surrounding the distal end and the one end of the filter element for weighting down said distal end during use.
The flexible dip tube as in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the weight comprises a coil spring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.