Abstract: A high-strength spin-on tube filter with improved fatigue life and higher operating pressure capability. The tubular style filter housing being of a unitary construction utilizes metal tubing rather than the commonly used deep-drawn thin gauge malleable metal can having the closed end of the internal filter element being the closed structural metal endcap, or cover, of the housing can. The specification discloses a new state of the art unitary construction method having several major improvements over prior art that will be of a benefit to the industry.

Abstract: An oil burner pump that includes a housing having a filter cartridge chamber that has an access opening which is closable by a removable cover. A filter cartridge is removable inserted into the chamber and is securable to the cover to be removed from the chamber when the cover is removed. The cartridge has opposite end portions and filter fabric extended between the opposite end portions, one of the end portions being removably securable to the cover.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid filter which is economically fabricated from commercially available flat and tubular plastics stock. The filter is openable from the top of replace filter elements carried by filter pipes that are rigid with the lower casing structure, all without disturbing the inlet and outlet fittings of the filter. At the casing top there is a connector block which has both such fittings and which is permanently attached to the lower casing structure. Removably attached to the connector block is a cap construction which has an outlet manifold passage that communicates, via a separable joint, with the outlet fitting of the connector block. Non-leak separable sealing joints are provided between the filter pipes and the cap construction, at the manifold passage.

Abstract: A cylindrical high-strength quick-disconnect disposable tube filter comprised of an external housing and an interior filtering element in a single unitary design. The external filter housing is designed and manufactured utilizing metal tubing and metal endcap closures. The sealed structural end covers of the tube filter housing are formed by folding an end portion of the metal tube over the peripheral lip of the metal endcaps and circumferentially welding the two pieces. Fluid communicating ports are provided in each endcap for inline flow applications.

Abstract: A fuel filter assembly employs a base which mounts a disposable filter element cartridge. The cartridge includes a dual stage filter system wherein fuel flows axially to a primary filter element for removing particulate matter and coalescing water droplets and axially to a secondary filter stage which functions as a water barrier. The filtered fuel flows axially and exits through an outlet passage in the base. Water may be collected in a sump. The cartridge is retained on the base by a collar which engages against a roll seam structure of the cartridge.

Abstract: A fuel filter assembly employs a base which mounts a disposable filter element cartridge and includes a sump for collecting water removed from the filtering unit. The cartridge includes a dual stage filter system wherein fuel flows axially to an upper filter element for removing particulate matter and coalescing water droplets and axially to a secondary filter stage which functions as a water barrier. The filtered fule flows axially downwardly and through an outlet passage from the base. The water collected in the sump is removed through a drain cock.

Abstract: A vibrating sieving unit for insertion into a housing to form a sieving filter. The sieving unit can be inserted into an installed casing of a filter unit by the use of a manifold plate. The vibrator directly vibrates the sieving cylinder reducing the buildup of filter cake for improved performance. A unique cleaning-in-place system is presented utilizing the fluid being filtered as the purging liquid.

Abstract: A gasoline filter for the entranceway to a gas tank filler tube has three preferred embodiments. The first includes a semipermanently mounted cap having a bore in which there is disposed a removable cylindrical filter element. The element is seated on a rotatable retainer for alignment with an eccentric opening in the filler tube entranceway. Normally closed resiliently mounted doors seal the entranceway but permit a gas pump nozzle to be inserted into the entranceway. The second embodiment has an integral hinged door atop the filter element for use with a conventional gas cap. The third embodiment has dual hinged doors mounted within the bore of the filter element arranged to be opened automatically by a pusher bushing when a gasoline dispensing nozzle is inserted in the gas tank filler tube.

Abstract: The invention relates to a filter for cleaning lubricating oil, especially for internal combustion engines of motor vehicles, with a filter case which, when installed, is in an at least approximately upright position. It has a cylinder-shaped oil filter cartridge and an inlet for the dirty oil flowing through the filter cartridge, plus an outlet for clean oil connected to the central interior part of the filter case and situated in a base at the bottom end of the filter case. A drain passage at the bottom end of the filter case becomes connected to the inlet chamber of the filter case whenever the filter cartridge is removed, plus a closure which cuts the drain passage off from the filter case.

Abstract: Device for a filter device, having a circular adapter, having at least one connector extending downwards out of the adapter, to which connector a filter cartridge is attachable, having a feed hole in the adapter, having an outflow volume above the adapter and communicating with the connector, having a circular head above the adapter, having a feed connector which extends upwards out of the head and communicates with the feed hole, and having an outflow connector which extends upwards out from the head and communicates with the outflow volume, characterized by the following features:(a) the adapter and the head are in one piece.(b) In their circumferential regions the adapter and the head are connected tightly against medium and mechanically rigidly by a circumferential wall.Around the feed hole and around the feed connector the adapter and the head are connected tightly against medium and mechanically rigidly with one another by an inner wall.

Abstract: A top-loading filter housing has a spin-on combination cartridge and cover in a unitary assembly. The cartridge is an annular filter medium surrounding a perforated center tube and supported in an imperforate bottom endcap, being joined by potting compound to provide a consolidated structure. An annular seal is retained in a central opening in the endcap and is sized for a sliding fit on a vertical standpipe, centrally supported in the filter housing. The cover portion of the cartridge is a molded, circular, glass-filled nylon plate having a depending peripheral flange threadedly receivable in the open, upper end of the filter housing. The cover includes a central well in which the filter medium and centertube are received, both being secured and sealed by potting compound so that the cover and cartridge may be replaced as an assembly.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for isolating and blocking articles flushed down toilets before they can get into and jam a main sewer line utilizes a threaded rod having a head for rotation thereof disposed on one end, a nut threaded onto the rod, a flat washer disposed next to the nut on the opposite side therefrom from the head, and a rubber washer disposed next to the flat washer on the opposite side therefrom from the nut. In a preferred embodiment, the rod is threaded into a threaded hole in a cleanout plug adjacent a toilet to be isolated and the nut tightens against the cleanout plug to compress the rubber washer to seal in sewer gases and fluids.

Abstract: A fuel filter includes a housing made of plastics and having a main housing portion accommodating a filter element, and a cover. The housing portions are tightly connected to each other at a single ring-shaped glue spot. The housing portion is formed with a pocket filled with glue and the cover is formed with a collar partially projecting into the pocket to form an annular Z-shaped gap in which the glue is distributed. When the glue is solidified the housing and the cover become rigidly and tightly connected to each other. The shape of the gap protects the glue against aggressive fuel.

Abstract: A system is provided for filling, for purifying liquids in a shipping container and for maintaining the high purity during withdrawal from the bulk shipping container of liquids, such as high purity liquids. In the system a specially designed bung adapted to fit shipping containers, such as pails and drums which may be made of a suitable plastic, metal, e.g. stainless steel, or other material of construction. The special bung has at least two openings, including an opening into which is fitted a dip tube that reaches contiguous to the bottom of the container. The special bung also has an opening into which a gas filter can be secured. In the system, the contents of the container can be pumped through the dip tube while maintaining the integrity of the product against contamination. The purity of the liquid can be upgraded by pumping, i.e., recirculating the liquid through a filtration media and returned to the container.

Abstract: A plug and filter assembly for a paint sprayer is characterized by a hand turnable knob that is rotatably coupled to a sealing plug to reduce the torque needed to install or remove the assembly from a paint head by axially advancing the plug into or out of an O-ring seal without having to turn the plug in the O-ring. The rotatable coupling is effected by a fastener having a head and a cylindrical shank portion which is received in an oversized central axial bore in the knob. The cylindrical shank portion has a diameter greater than that of a threaded end portion of the fastener secured in the plug and thus defines a shoulder which engages an axial end face of the plug positively to fix the axial spacing between the fastener head and plug to a distance greater than the axial length of a portion of the knob axially trapped between the fastener head and plug for free nonbinding rotation of the knob.

Abstract: An in line filter assembly is provided for use in conjunction with a painting system having a pressurized source of liquid paint, a paint applicator and a fluid line which fluidly connects the pressurized paint source and applicator together. The filter assembly comprises an elongated housing defining an elongated housing chamber. One end of the housing chamber is connected in series with the pressurized paint source while the opposite end of the housing chamber is fluidly connected to the applicator so that paint flowing from the source and to the applicator passes through the housing chamber. A tubular and cylindrical filter element open at one end is removably inserted into the housing chamber so that paint flow through the housing chamber flows through the filter element which removes any solid contaminants contained in the paint.

Abstract: An improved filter screen device is provided which comprises an elongated, tubular housing, a hollow elongated perforated tubular member releasably secured in the hollow central interior of the housing and a flexible sock-type filter screen releasably disposed over the outer surface of the tubular member in the housing. The housing includes an open upstream end which is closed by the tubular member and a closed opposite downstream end. An inlet is disposed at an acute angle to the length of the housing and intersects the housing interior between its upstream and downstream ends. A first outlet is disposed at the downstream end along about the longitudinal axis of the housing so as to communicate with the interior of the hollow tubular member. A second outlet is also disposed in the downstream end of the housing at an angle to the first outlet and communicates with a space between the filter screen and the housing.

Abstract: A pellet dryer is disclosed for removing plastic pellets from entraining water and drying the same. The rotating structure of the pellet dryer is essentially contained and supported on a door of a cabinet, so that the opening of the cabinet door exposes the pellet dryer structure and the interior of the cabinet for cleaning.

Abstract: A filter device for a fuel tank comprises an upper wall for supporting in position a tubular member such as a fuel line or a pump casing, a bottom wall disposed at a distance from the upper wall, and a cylindrical wall supporting in position a mesh encircling the space intervening between the upper wall and the bottom wall. The cylindrical wall and either the upper wall or the bottom wall are integrally molded of a plastic material in one integral part, the bottom wall or the upper wall is molded separately of a plastic material in a separate part to be fitted to the free end of the cylindrical wall in the one integral part, one of the two parts which has an outer fitting peripheral wall surface is formed of a plastic material having a smaller rate of dimensional change, and the other part which has an inner fitting peripheral wall surface is formed of a plastic material having a larger rate of dimensional change.

Abstract: An improved low-profile inline fluid filter (10), for IV sets and the like, comprises only two discrete units: a shell unit (11) and a screen unit (12). The screen unit (12) is adapted to fit substantially within the shell unit (11) such that the screen unit (12) and the shell unit (11) are connected to each other at both ends.

Abstract: The filter device has a housing with elongated top and bottom walls and side walls which taper inwardly from top to bottom. The top wall has extending downwardly therefrom into the housing a generally flat filter membrane support with a quadrangular periphery, a pair of filter membranes being disposed on opposite sides of the support and sealingly bonded to its periphery, the support having a center portion with spaced coplanar surfaces on each side to provide support for the center portion of the filter membranes. The housing is provided with an opening communicating with the space between the two filter membranes and with an opening communicating with the space between the housing and the two membranes.

Abstract: A strainer is provided for removing particulate debris from a fluid passing therethrough. The strainer is primarily of the automatic type having a hollow body, a cover, a strainer element and a backwash arm assembly for cleaning the strainer element. The strainer element is a cylindrical, convoluted screen having encapsulating end caps positioned at either end. The end caps and thus the strainer element are retained so as to avoid rotation in seal rings, one of which is connected to the cover and the other of which is detachably connected to the terminus of the backwash arm. The strainer element is a structural member capable of withstanding the loads imposed on it by the fluid.

Abstract: A filtration apparatus is provided which is easily convertible to a bag, sleeve and disc, cartridge, or tube filter configuration. Additionally, the apparatus is adaptable to function as an ion exchange column. The apparatus includes a tank having a base with liquid and gas inlets. A removable cover also has liquid and gas inlets and an adapter onto which several different filter elements may be coupled including a bag filter, a disc and sleeve filter, a cartridge filter, a tube-type filter, and a strainer for when the apparatus is to be used as an ion exchange column. The tank is capable of having liquid flow through in either direction and can be pressurized or evacuated as needed.

Abstract: A fluid filtering device for use with a filter body having a chamber open at one end and a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet port in fluid communication with the chamber. The device comprises a housing formed by molding a plastic cap onto one axial end of a tubular cage. A filter element is disposed within the cage while an annular member is nondetachably secured to the other end of the cage to entrap the filter element within the cage. The cage is dimensioned so that upon insertion into the body chamber, the filter element is positioned between the inlet and outlet ports while the cap covers the open end of the chamber. In addition, a fluid bypass valve is contained within the cage and bypasses the fluid flow around the filter element from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet upon the occurrence of a predetermined differential pressure across the filter element.

Abstract: A high capacity low pressure drop flow line filter apparatus of standardized pipe dimension having an interchangeable filter apparatus disposed therein. The filter apparatus is provided with means for positively securing within the apparatus while compensating for dimensional variations in the filter apparatus to provide for such interchangeable use.

Abstract: A filtration system is provided that directs a fluid to be filtered through a disposable tubular filtration element, supports the filtration element, and accommodates for "wet growth" of the filtration element. The system operates with an inside-to-outside forced fluid flow through the filtration element and includes a generally cylindrical housing with a fluid inlet and outlet. A perforated outer support screen is mounted within the housing and surrounds the walls of the tubular filtration element with slight clearance. Under the influence of the fluid pressure and the wet growth, the walls of the filtration element bear against the screen. A sealing and support assembly having upstream and downstream fluid guides, each carrying, in a preferred form, a pair of resilient sealing members, is positioned inside the filtration element. A rigid inner member bridges the opposing faces of the resilient member pairs.

Abstract: A fluid filter assembly is comprised of a flexible, compressible housing, a filter pouch in the housing formed from membrane filter media and having a fluid opening in one end thereof, a fluid inlet extending into the housing in fluid communication with the interior of the filter pouch through the fluid opening, and a fluid outlet extending from the housing in fluid communication with the interior of the housing external of the filter pouch. Fluid may pass through the fluid inlet into the interior of the filter pouch, then pass through the membrane filter media of the filter pouch into the interior of the housing external of the filter pouch and finally exit from the housing through the fluid outlet. The unique filter pouch may be made by providing a filter sheet of membrane filter media and folding the sheet substantially in half to form a filter pouch configuration having a folded edge, two edges adjacent the folded edge and an edge opposite the folded edge.

Abstract: A fluid filtering device utilizing a standard or conventional tee connector and a standard or conventional pipe as the housing. A filter assembly is threadably received in one end of the tee connector and carries a filter element which extends into the pipe.