Abstract: A process for making a water filter having the steps of hydropulping particulate and fibrous ingredients including a quantity of fibrillated cellulose with water to create a suspension, circulating the suspension in a molding tank, submerging a mold having cavities in the circulating suspension, applying a vacuum to the cavities to draw the suspension into the cavities such that the water passes through the mold and the ingredients accumulate within the cavities to form a dewatered material, ejecting the dewatered material from the mold to create a molded object, drying and curing the molded object and capping an open end of the molded object to make a filter that flows under gravity and is naturally hydrophilic with a mean flow path (MFP) as determined by porometry of less than 5 micron and preferably less than 2 micron.

Abstract: A process for making a water filter having the steps of hydropulping particulate and fibrous ingredients including a quantity of fibrillated cellulose with water to create a suspension, circulating the suspension in a molding tank, submerging a mold having cavities in the circulating suspension, applying a vacuum to the cavities to draw the suspension into the cavities such that the water passes through the mold and the ingredients accumulate within the cavities to form a dewatered material, ejecting the dewatered material from the mold to create a molded object, drying and curing the molded object and capping an open end of the molded object to make a filter that flows under gravity and is naturally hydrophilic with a mean flow path (MFP) as determined by porometry of less than 5 micron and preferably less than 2 micron.

Abstract: A process for making a water filter having the steps of hydropulping particulate and fibrous ingredients including a quantity of fibrillated cellulose with water to create a suspension, circulating the suspension in a molding tank, submerging a mold having cavities in the circulating suspension, applying a vacuum to the cavities to draw the suspension into the cavities such that the water passes through the mold and the ingredients accumulate within the cavities to form a dewatered material, ejecting the dewatered material from the mold to create a molded object, drying and curing the molded object and capping an open end of the molded object to make a filter that flows under gravity and is naturally hydrophilic with a mean flow path (MFP) as determined by porometry of less than 5 micron and preferably less than 2 micron.