Abstract: A self supporting pleated fluid filter medium having different fibers to provide pleats sufficiently self supporting to maintain pleated form during fluid filter treatment, the invention fixer including low melt fiber and an optional support frame and a method of making such pleated filter.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously manufacturing filter units; each unit including a flow-through filter medium support frame with at least one sheet of filter medium extending across the flow-through opening of each unit with the edges thereof welded to the peripheral side edges of the unit frame.

Abstract: A self supporting pleated fluid filter medium having different fibers to provide pleats sufficiently self supporting to maintain pleated form during fluid filter treatment, the invention further including low melt fiber and an optional support frame and a method of making such pleated filter.

Abstract: In a fan for circulating an air stream in an air-treating environment, an improved fan blade structure designed to optimize airflow along the rotational axis of the fan blade within an optimized low decibel sound range and at preselected revolutions per minute.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and filter unit product wherein filter media fibers are fed from a media supply source to a mat forming interchangeable and movable contoured surface to contour shape a filter media mat into a preselected form for subsequent movement to a transfer zone for further contour shaping and processing into filter unit products with preselected frame arrangements.

Abstract: A pleated filter and method of making the same wherein the crests of pleated filter medium include nesting daubs of pleat spreading and pleat maintaining material located at the crests to define free flow valleys between opposed pleat faces for efficient passage of a fluid stream to be treated therethrough from upstream through downstream pleat faces.

Abstract: A filter including a fibrous filter medium mat, having an upstream dirty fluid inlet and a downstream clean fluid outlet, with a majority of the filter medium fibers oriented in a substantially unrestrained, aligned direction so as to be aligned with the direction of fluid stream flow, the fibrous filter medium mat combinable in a preselected manner with filter media of randomly dispersed fibers.

Abstract: A pleat filter arrangement and method of making the same wherein longitudinally extending sheets of filter media are pleated to include pliable strips adhesively extending between at least one face of the opposed pleat faces to separate the opposed pleat faces so as to allow fluid flow therethrough, the pleated filter media being cut to size as pleated filter medium units and framed.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and filter unit product wherein filter media fibers are fed from a media supply source to a mat forming interchangeable and movable contoured surface to contour shape a filter media mat into a preselected form for subsequent movement to a transfer zone for further contour shaping and processing into filter unit products with preselected frame arrangements.

Abstract: A pleat filter medium assembly wherein pleated fibrous filter medium forming troughs between opposed faces of adjacent filter medium pleats serve to include spacer inserts formed from intersecting sets of spaced strands of different cross-sectional thickness.

Abstract: A system for pleating a continuous strip of foldable material including feeding the strip of foldable material between adjacent flights of cooperatively positioned endless conveyors having pleat folding arms pivotally associated therewith which are alternatively and interfittingly positioned to pleat the strip of foldable material as it movingly passes from one end of adjacent flights to the other end thereof.

Abstract: A product wherein a layered web of melt blown fibrous filter media is produced by a unitary die including several die sources with facing layers of the fibrous filter media being attenuated by opposed fluid streams at preselected included angles and with the fiber layers being free from bonding together and with the fibers in each layer being minimally bonded.

Abstract: A method, die apparatus and product wherein a layered web of melt blown fibrous filter media is produced by a unitary die including several die sources with facing layers of the fibrous filter media being attenuated by opposed fluid streams at preselected included angles and with the fiber layers being free from bonding together and with the fibers in each layer being minimally bonded.

Abstract: A filter apparatus and method wherein successive layers of filter medium are spaced apart from each other a preselected distance to create a substantially direct, in-line through-flow void space therebetween evaluated upon the porosity and thickness of the successive filter mediums, pleated spacer/filter arrangements being employed to create a combined overall filter media with an included through-flow void space for fractionated distribution of particles between the successive layers of filter medium to maximize particulate holding capacity of the overall filter media.

Abstract: A filter bag assembly and method and machinery to form the same wherein spaced opposed filter bag panels are connected together by transversely extending preselectively sized binder strips fastened selectively at opposed ends to the spaced filter panels to restrain outward inflation of the filter bag.

Abstract: A die apparatus wherein a layered web of melt blown fibrous filter media is produced by a unitary die including several die sources with facing layers of the fibrous filter media being attenuated by opposed fluid streams at preselected included angles and with the fiber layers being free from bonding together and with the fibers in each layer being minimally bonded.

Abstract: A self-supporting pocket fluid filter wherein layers of pocket forming filter medium are laminated with open-faced filter netting of sufficient rigidity to provide for self-supporting of completed filter pocket members without additional support mechanisms between or inside extended pockets.

Abstract: A pleated filter medium arrangement including a sheet of pleated porous filtering media nestingly engaged between adjacent pleats by a pleated sheet of thermobondable plastic screening with preselected facing opposite portions of the screening being heat bonded together.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for distributing pressurized fiber attenuating fluid through a melt blowing multi-headed die body uniformly and contaminant filtered with a minimum of energy loss before reaching the fluid attenuating outlets of the die body.

Abstract: A fluid filter arrangement including layered filter media capable of successively filtering varying sized particulate matter from a treated fluid stream with each layer of the layered filter media having a substantially equal terminal pressure drop thereacross.