Abstract: A drying cartridge for air drying systems, especially for compressed-air brake systems of vehicles, has an inner pot and an outer pot. The components used for the air drying, including a pressure spring used for compressing the drying agent, are arranged inside the inner pot constructed as a preassembled unit, in which case the inner pot can be inserted flush into the outer pot. By usage of an interior-cylindrical wall, the inner pot surrounds a duct which penetrates the drying cartridge in the axial center, through which duct a screw is guided for fastening the drying cartridge on the dryer casing.

Abstract: In a drying cartridge for air drying installations, especially for vehicle air-brake systems, an air drying agent is contained inside an outer pot, the base region of which can be closed off by a face cover. A central screw with a thread at its end passing through the face cover and securable to the dryer casing extends axially and centrally through the drying cartridge. The face cover, which may be made of thin plastic, can move to a limited extent in relation to the outer pot of the drying cartridge and is secured by clamping or friction to an O-ring which in turn is introduced into an annular groove in the central screw such that, after the drying cartridge has been released from the dryer casing, the cartridge can still be handled as a structural unit.