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US 7,223,347 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for filtering fluids
AssigneeWwetco, LLC
InventorsMark C. Boner, Paula K. Gurney
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Abstract
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for filtering fluids with a compressible filter media within at least a portion of a housing inwardly compressible.
Claims6
A method for filtering fluid comprising:
- providing fluid to be filtered against a first side of a flexible membrane opposite from a second side of the flexible membrane that includes compressible filter media;
- compressing the flexible membrane with the fluid to be filtered from the first side to compress the filter media on the second side of the flexible membrane;
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- filtering the fluid to be filtered through the filter media on the second side of the flexible membrane to remove solid particles from the fluid to be filtered, wherein the filter media includes detached fibrous bundles.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.