Dual side cleaning and traversing screen filtration system
AssigneeFruit Growers Supply Company
InventorsDavid Sorenson, Bruce Adams
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Abstract
A dual-side cleaning traversing screen filtration system which generally comprises a main trough water containment housing, a traversing manifold having a multitude of top and bottom disposed spray heads, flexible plumbing, a substantially planar, rectangular supported screen which is disposed over, and spans the opening of, the main trough water containment housing which, in the preferred embodiment, has a rectangular box like shape, with the combined assemblage functioning as a filter to separate unwanted debris from the water that passes through the screen into the slightly inclined main trough water containment housing where it can be continually removed and re-used.
Claims18
A filtration system for filtering fluid flowing therethrough comprising:
- a frame;
- a main trough substantially horizontally mounted on said frame, and having a path along which the fluid flows;
- a screen disposed in said substantially horizontally mounted trough across the path of the fluid;
- a traversing sprayer disposed adjacent the screen and movable along a length of the screen;
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- a movement mechanism so constructed and arranged so as to linearly move said traversing sprayer along the length of said screen;
- wherein the traversing sprayer includes a U-shaped manifold having a plurality of upstream spray nozzles mounted on an upper leg disposed on one side of the screen positioned to spray in a direction substantially towards the screen and a plurality of downstream spray nozzles mounted on a lower leg disposed on the other side of the screen positioned to spray in a direction substantially towards the screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.