Abstract: A filter bag tensioning device for use in a bag house is disclosed. The tensioning device comprises a straight lever arm adapted to be pivotally mounted in the upper reaches of a bag house and carrying, on the end of the lever arm opposite that of filter bag attachment, a semi-fixed counterweight. The semi-fixed counterweight is prevented from rotating as its end of the lever arm moves in an ascending direction from a horizontal position but is free to rotate as its end of the lever arm moves in a descending direction from horizontal, to thereby continuously maintain a desired design tension on an attached filter bag. In a preferred embodiment, the lever arm can also be rotated to a vertical position and then moved longitudinally of its pivot to substantially lower the filter bag attachment point, thereby greatly facilitating attachment and replacement of filter bags and, in a further preferred aspect, to permit these operations to be performed by a workman having both hands free.

Abstract: There is disclosed a quick-connect-disconnect coupling for attaching a flexible dirt-receiving bag to the handle of an upright vacuum cleaner. The coupling includes first and second coupling members, respectively, which are rigidly attached to the handle and to the bag, with the second member rigidly supporting at least a major portion of a bag-supporting casing as a cantilever. The first coupling member defines a pocket in which there is provided a fixed member and a movable member. The movable member is biased toward the fixed member, and the second coupling member is adapted to be releasably inserted between the fixed and movable members. The movable and fixed members cooperate with the second coupling member to define a one-way ratchet which is releasable upon movement of the movable member away from the fixed member.

Abstract: Hot gas filter for separating solid particles carried along in high temperature or waste gases having a filter casing made of heat-resistant brickwork, in which there is provided at least one oblong filter cell one end of which ends in a hot gas supply duct whereas the other end is tightly closed by a removable cover. The walls of the filter cell are at least partly made of perforated bricks, through which the hot gas entering the filter cell may overflow to a treated gas discharge duct. The filter cell is lined over the whole length thereof with a replaceable filter hose of heat resistant fabric or tissue, preferably non-woven ceramic fiber fabric or a fabric of ytrium-oxide stabilized zircon-oxide fibers.

Abstract: An upright vacuum cleaner having a motor housing, a handle pivotally attached to the housing, and a flexible dirt-receiving bag extending between the housing and the handle is disclosed. A top cover assembly is provided for supporting the top of the bag, and includes a rectangular cup-shaped cover having top, side, and end faces enveloping a portion of the top of the bag. An attaching assembly is provided for attaching the cover to the handle and to the top of the bag within the cover. The attaching assembly includes a wire hanger extending through the top face of the cover and then extending from a location adjacent one end of the cover toward the other end of the cover. The attaching assembly further includes a clamping web fixed to the underside of the top face. Downwardly and inwardly extending ends of the web enter pleats at the sides of the bag to removably hold the bag in place within the cover.

Abstract: A dust-collector of the bag filter type to filter and trap dust and other solid material entrained in flue gases uses a plurality of bags suspended in an array to cooperate with a shaking mechanism. Each bag has an open bottom end and is suspended resiliently taut and in communication with an inlet gas-duct at the bottom; the top of each bag is closed and is exposed to a suction line for venting filtered gases. Periodically, rinsing air is fed into the bags from the suction line to dislodge solid particles and dust deposited on the inner walls of the bags; simultaneously, the bags are given a jolting tipping movement by a gang-operated mechanism which may be manual.

Abstract: A movable winch adapted to be aligned on a guide track above each of the filter bags in a baghouse to secure the bags at a predetermined tension within the baghouse.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to sawdust collecting apparatus which incorporates a bag having a screened aperture at a medial portion thereof, which bag is disposed to receive sawdust generated by a saw, to serve as a device to collect the sawdust particles while permitting moving air to escape through the screened aperture.

Abstract: A pocket filter cartridge having a plurality of side-by-side filter bags secured to a filter header assembly adapted to be secured across a dirty gas stream in a gas duct. The header assembly includes a generally rectangular frame in which the filter bags are secured by collars mounted in the mouths of each of the bags which are held together by clip members to clamp the bags between the collars and the frame to secure the bags to the header assembly.

Abstract: A dust collecting apparatus with quick release filter support system comprising an enclosure, a bulkhead structure mounted to the interior walls of said enclosure, and defining upper and lower portions of said enclosure, means for the intake and exhaust of air from the surrounding environment in a single direction, a filter cloth assembly comprising a filter cloth affixed to and supported by a frame assembly inserted into said enclosure, and quick release clamping means used to bring said frame assembly into an air tight sealing arrangement with said bulkhead.

Abstract: Clamping means for clamping an end of a fabric filter bag to a supporting frame member comprising a U-shaped clamping member the bight portion of which forms a clamping portion lying on one side of the frame member while the arms project through apertures in the frame member, and a leaf spring engaged with the arms of the clamping member and bearing against the other side of the frame member such that the clamping portion of the clamping member is urged towards the one side of the frame member. This arrangement renders replacement or retensioning of a bag easier and prevents bag failure by reducing the stresses applied to the fibers of the bag while clamped in place.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a locking mechanism for releasably mounting a row of filter elements in sealing engagement within a filter assembly. The locking mechanism includes a pair of spaced longitudinal bars, substantially semicircular in cross section, which are pivotly mounted within the filter assembly below the lateral edges of mounting plates affixed to the upper ends of the filter elements such that a row of filter elements depend from and are slideably removeable along the longitudinal flat side of the spaced parallel bars. A locking handle is affixed to the outwardly extending ends of each of the parallel bars such that rotation of the handle causes the curvilinear surface of the parallel bars increasingly to bear against the underside of the mounting plate and urge said filter element upwardly into said sealing engagement with an interior portion of the filter assembly.

Abstract: A pocket filter cartridge having a plurality of side-by-side filter assemblies secured to a common mounting frame adapted to be secured across a dirty gas stream in a gas duct. Each of the filter assemblies includes a sheath-like filter bag suspended from an apertured header plate which is secured to the mounting frame in an overlapping fashion with its adjacent mounting plates to form a common header for all of the filters in the cartridge.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner has an elongated porous outer bag for holding a filter bag over an air outlet. A hanger within the outer bag is positioned to suspend the outer bag from the vacuum cleaner, as well as to hold a pocket within the outer bag, so that spare filter bags may be held within the porous outer bag.

Abstract: A split spring steel ring having a channel-shape cross-sectional configuration is sewn into the bottom cuff of a filter bag. The split ring is placed into the opening in the thimble plate of a plenum chamber by lapping the ring at the split and pushing inward until the diameter is reduced for insertion into the opening. The ring is then allowed to expand until the ends abutt at the split. The ring is maintained in its expanded condition in interlocking engagement with the opening by a thimble extension which extends through the ring below the thimble plate of the plenum chamber.

Abstract: A baghouse filter apparatus including a collapsible bag filter assembly (20) for separating from a gas solid particles entrained therein. The collapsible bag filter assembly comprises a plurality of fabric filter bags (22) extending between a grid sheet (26) and a tube sheet (24) with at least one sheet being movable toward the other sheet and the other sheet being slidably mounted on rails (42). Legs (40) are provided to guide the movement of the one sheet toward the other so as to keep the grid sheet and tube sheet parallel and properly aligned as the bag filter assembly is collapsed. Once the assembly is collapsed, it may be easily slid out of the baghouse (10) through an access opening (30) in the baghouse to facilitate inspection, repair, and bag removal at a location external of the baghouse.

Abstract: A method for filtering dust from a dust-laden gas stream utilizing a tubular fabric filter is provided wherein cleaning of said filter is accomplished by backflow of gas through the filter wall and axial pulsations of gas along the longitudinal axis of the tubular filter.

Abstract: A bag filter housing (10) having filter bag tensioning means for providing a predetermined tension on each filter bag (28). The tension may be quickly released by means of a lever (40) incorporated into the bag tensioning means thereby allowing the filter bags to be quickly removed and replaced as necessary to maintain optimum dust collection performance.

Abstract: A filter bag assembly for a sealed, releasable attachment to a circular cap includes a flexible inelastic wire ring and a substantially concentric elastically expandable member. These elements are enclosed in an external cuff turned on the end of the filter bag. The cap includes a radially extended rim having an external diameter greater than the inside diameter of the wire ring. The cap outer diameter is less than the inside diameter of the wire ring but exceeds the unstressed inside diameter of the expandable member.

Abstract: A pocket filter cartridge including at least one sheath-like filter bag which is suspended from a mounting sleeve affixed to an apertured header plate disposed across a dirty gas stream by a retaining collar holding it in press-fit clamping relation to the mounting member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a filter bag holder comprising a flexible tubular member having a relatively constant outside diameter throughout a substantial portion of its length to one of its axial ends and having two axially spaced annular ribs protruding from the outside of the tubular member near its other axial end. The constant-diameter end may be attached to a filter bag, and the ribbed end engages in the region between the two axially spaced protruding annular ribs with a rim around an aperture in a partition located between mediums under different pressures.

Abstract: Powder collectors for the automatic collection and recycling of powders such as in a powder coating booth are disclosed. The collectors utilize a rollaway collection assembly having one or more cartridge filters therein so as to allow the quick change of vector assemblies on the coating booth for color change convenience. The cartridges themselves may also be readily changed as they preferably are not rigidly mounted to the collection assembly but instead merely sole positioned therein as to become functional upon turning on the air flow for the collection system. Continuous operation is provided by periodic blow-down of the cartridges with a fluidized bed providing automatic recycling (or disposal in the case of dust collection systems) of the collected powder. Various embodiments are disclosed including one embodiment utilizing envelope filters with an automatic blow-down provision.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner dust bag with a relatively rigid collar having an inlet opening for an inlet tube connected to a vacuum cleaner housing. The opening is covered by an apertured elastic diaphragm. The opening of the dust bag is further provided with a large zone and a small zone, which are integral, so that the inlet tube can be inserted through the large zone and the dust bag displaced laterally so that a peripheral flange on the inlet tube will engage with surrounding portions of the diaphragm aperture disposed in the small zone. The dust bag is moved to and retained in this position by the elastic diaphragm whose aperture is disposed centrally relative to said small zone.

Abstract: A filter housing having one or more flow-through media support members releasably secured in the housing between the dirty gas inlet and the clean gas outlet to divide the housing into a dirty gas chamber and a clean gas chamber.

Abstract: There is disclosed a vacuum cleaner bag assembly for an upright vacuum cleaner comprising a flexible, air-permeable, outer bag having an upper end adapted to be attached to a handle of a vacuum cleaner. The other end of the outer bag has an open mouth attached to an open mouth of a dirt-collecting box. The dirt-collecting box has a suction inlet opening and also a suction outlet opening which comprises its open mouth. A tube closes the open mouth of the box and is in fluid communication with the box and extends toward the top of the outer bag. A disposable inner bag is provided within the outer bag and has an inlet opening in fluid communication with the tube. A vacuum cleaner provided with the bag assembly may be operated as a vacuum cleaner with a disposable bag with all of the foregoing elements in place, or as an air-permeable outer bag filter vacuum when the tube and disposable bag are removed.

Abstract: A gas filtering bag house having a stepped partition intermediate the bags and the hopper with the gas inlet located in side wall below partition at maximum spacing of partition and hopper--The baghouse including walkway intermediate bay height and overlying other bags.

Abstract: The combination of a vacuum cleaner and a dust filter container. The dust filter container does not have a conventional attachment plate. A support structure is located in the vacuum cleaner housing having a projecting member provided with a hole, the latter is inserted through a slot in the dust container whereby the hole aligns with an opening in the dust container. The hole in the projecting member and the opening form a through passage into the dust container from the inlet suction conduit of the vacuum cleaner. A seal is arranged in the vacuum cleaner housing between a flange on the suction conduit and a portion of the dust filter container surrounding the hole therein.

Abstract: A thimble construction for filter bags used in baghouses and the like which reduces the pressure drop in air approaching the thimble radially along a wall surface by causing a generally laminar flow of such air as it enters the thimble opening. The invention also contemplates a new and improved configuration in the upper portion of the thimble which provides a wedging action against the inner surface of a filter bag to promote a tighter seal and prevent gas leakage.

Abstract: A bag filter having a self-sealing cuff at the upper open end thereof, a bottom support at the closed end to tension the bag and prevent flapping and a plurality of spaced anticollapse rings each of which encircles an annular outer surface of the bag to which it is attached between the ends of the bag to prevent bag collapse.

Abstract: An exchangeable filter element is disclosed. The filter element is especially adapted for nuclear installations for the purification of gas streams which contain toxic or radioactive matter. A method is also disclosed for the exchange and disposal of contaminated filter elements, which filter elements are reducible in volume for packing into waste containers.

Abstract: A built-in suction cleaner has a waste bucket of translucent material to permit its contents to be seen. The bucket has handles and is secured to a body section by co-operating projections and recesses, facilitating removal and replacement of the bucket. A filter in the body section is secured by a spring band in the filter edge being received within a groove in the body section wall. The body section supports a suction unit, which is resiliently secured in place only by a cover being fixed to the body section.

Abstract: A removable extension for thimbles used in baghouse installations. The extension, which projects below the main body of the thimble, insures that gas entering a filter bag connected to the thimble will have a flow direction aligned with the bag axis such that particulate matter entrained within the gas stream will not impinge on the sides of the filter bag and cause excessive wear. The extension, which need not be secured to the main body of the thimble, abuts the inner wall surface of the thimble and rests on an annular flange formed in the upper portion of the thimble.

Abstract: Means for mounting a filter bag in a multiple filter bag assembly with means for maintaining the bag under tension while permitting transmission of shaking motion from a shaker mechanism to the tensioned filter bag, in which use is made of a shaker bar suspended for freedom of movement in a crosswise direction and having retainer plates through which tensioned hanger rods for the bags extend for relative vertical movement with means for actuating the shaker bar for movement in the cross direction and tensioning means connecting the hanger rods to a support.

Abstract: A filter structure supporting a series of tubular filter bags for filtering a dust-laden airflow. The filter bags are subjected to a momentary reverse flow for purging collected particles from the bag walls. The filter bags are supported against pressure drops existing across the bag walls by bag shaping members affixed at spaced intervals along each filter bag. Each bag shaping member is retained in an adjustable, annular pocket formed by a cuff secured to the bag wall. This cuff is provided with a sizing means which permits contraction of the pocket to confine the shaping member therein and expansion of the pocket to permit convenient removal of the shaping member therefrom prior to laundering of the filter bag.

Abstract: The present invention refers to the mounting of filter bags and the like of the kind comprising the mounting of such filter bags in a frame which holds them by means of a holding ring and which applies pressure against the outer walls of the frame, securing the lip of the bags between the body of the frame and the holding ring.

Abstract: A plurality of separate V-shaped wire mesh members are arranged and connected in side-by-side relationship to provide a plurality of V-shaped cells across an air stream. A W-shaped retainer or connector formed of perforated sheet metal has outer, downstream facing trackways which receive side edges of the wire mesh members, and a central, upstream facing trackway which receives and retains the free edges of V-shaped filter media bags which are inserted into the V-shaped cells overlying the wire mesh. A stabilizer bar extends across and attaches to the exposed adjoining edges of the V-cells to support the cells in proper relation and retain the filter media in place.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a reusable dust bag which may be used in an enclosed-bag type of vacuum cleaner interchangeably with a disposable paper dust bag.

Abstract: A floor care appliance is described in which a rigid housing may extend upwardly from the appliance nozzle. The rigid housing may mount a reel therein or may just serve as an appearance housing for the floor care appliance. In either case, the rear of the housing mounts a rigid plate that extends upwardly from it. An upper fill tube has its upper end attached to this plate. The cloth bag for the floor care appliance extends around the fill tube and is mounted to the housing, intermediate its upper and lower ends, by the rigid plate. The cloth bag thereby encapsulates the rigid plate and fill tube so as to provide a pleasing outside appearance to the floor care appliance.

Abstract: A filter system includes a tank with a removable cover at one end and a filter basket and liner therefor insertable into the tank to divide it into unfiltered liquid and filtered liquid zones. Inlet and outlet openings are disposed at the open and remaining end, respectively, of the tank with the inlet opening being in the side wall of the tank, near such open end, so as not to interfere with opening and closing of the cover. Inner and outer annuli are fixed to the tank side wall and face radially into the tank, with the inlet opening interposed axially therebetween. A spacer insertable into the tank comprises an annular inner disk pressable toward the inner annulus for gripping therebetween an inner resilient seal which in turn engages the adjacent edges of the filter basket and filter liner to prevent leakage therearound between the unfiltered and filtered liquid zones.

Abstract: A device for forming demonstration cleaning-test bags and for attaching them to vacuum cleaners comprises basically a cylindrical tube adapted for placement over the air-discharge port of a sweeper, and a co-operating plunger for pushing the central area of a flexible filter cloth or sheet into the tube. The end of the plunger has fixed thereto a hook-type VELCRO disc for engagement with a co-operating loop-type VELCRO disc cemented or stitched centrally of the filter sheet. Thus the inserted sheet can be turned inside-out to form a bag but after the sheet margin has been anchored to the outer lip surface of the cylindrical tube by a contracting coil-spring band which is rolled thereover from an annular plunger seat encircling said lip. For adjustment to different sizes of bag-forming sheets, the band-holding plunger-seat can be slidable along the plunger, or the plunger body can be length-adjustably formed from telescoping sections.

Abstract: A liquid filter having a housing which includes a chamber enclosed by a cap. A reticulated basket is fitted within the housing chamber and supported by the housing. A filter bag is positioned within the reticulated basket and includes a flexible flange which engages the housing to secure the bag within the basket without the aid of the filter cap.

Abstract: An adjustable tensioning and retaining device particularly well suited for supporting a filter bag in a gas filtering baghouse includes an elongated linking member interconnected to one end of the filter bag, a wedge shaped body member having a sloping top surface with a plurality of spaced apart indentations formed in this sloping top surface, and coupling means for removably connecting the linking member into any of the indentations in the body member. In addition, the wedge shaped body member is mounted to a supporting structure in the filtering baghouse for linear movement such that the plane of the sloping top surface of the body member is inclined to the direction of linear movement.

Abstract: Disclosed is a strainer which is suitable for use in supplying gasoline from a gasoline tank by means of a suction pipe. A strainer according to this invention comprises a cylindrical body having a net applied to the periphery thereof and a cover which is adapted to closely cover the top opening of the cylindrical body. The cover has an annular projection around the through hole at the center. In use, the cover is fit onto the top opening of the cylindrical body and then the end of a suction pipe is inserted in the cylindrical body through the annular projection.The structures of the cylindrical body and the cover are amenable to production by injection molding, and are easy to assemble.

Abstract: A bag filter and a filter bag tension means for providing a predetermined tension on the filter bag. The tension may be quickly varied or even completely removed to provide an optimum tension for dust collecting or rapid bag removal.

Abstract: A stand provided with a bag positioned over an opening to remove filter.

Abstract: An improved tubular filter bag of two piece construction, one piece being coated with a flexible and abrasive resistant coating, the coated piece being in communication with a flow-through inlet for absorbing the impact of the bag during cleaning. Also disposed at approximately the maximum impact point of the filter bag is a support member to restrict flexing of the bag during cleaning.

Abstract: A socket attached to a support and a screw which is attached to a filter bag within a socket. A pivot attached to the socket and supporting a locking member having teeth which engages threads of screw through opening in socket.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner filter bag for an upright vacuum cleaner comprising an air pervious filter receptacle and an air impervious feed tube interconnected together so that the interior of the filter receptacle is in air-flowing relationship with the interior of the feed tube, where the feed tube is adapted to be connected to the vacuum cleaner. A collar is intermediately disposed within the filter receptacle and secured therein by a clamping ring disposed externally of the filter receptacle in juxtaposition with an upper portion of the collar. An air impervious dust receptacle is removably disposed within a lower portion of the filter receptacle with a mouth portion of the dust receptacle being disposed about a lower end of the collar. A resiliently expandable ring releasably secures the dust receptacle mouth portion about the collar so that the dust receptacle is maintained in an open mouth suspended condition within the filter receptacle to receive and collect debris introduced into the filter receptacle.

Abstract: A filter bag which includes an annular thin-walled band having a plurality of discrete resilient tabs extending from its outer surface along two axially separated paths. A flexible collar is secured to the outer surface of the band and conforms to the shape of the tabs to provide discrete protrusions along the two paths. The band and collar assembly is secured to one end of the filter bag. The end of the filter bag can snugly fit into a socket of a cooperating member, whereby a portion of the socket is positioned in the space between the two separated paths and is retained by the protrusions disposed on either side thereof. The retained portion of the socket includes an enclosed annular ring.

Abstract: The open end of a dust bag in an upright tank type vacuum cleaner is detachably fastened to a frame fitting within and against the upper face of a ledge in the tank. A deflector skirt spaced from the tank wall is fitted against the lower face of the ledge and the frame and skirt are held against the ledge from opposite sides by spring catches mounted on the inside surface of the deflector skirt and engaging the frame. Those catches are accessible from the bottom of the deflector skirt when the dump bucket forming the bottom portion of the tank is removed.

Abstract: An industrial sweeper has a filter unit in the debris hopper with the filter unit comprising rows of cartridges having pleated paper filter elements that are cyclically cleaned by reverse jet pulses of air without interrupting the filtering action by the main blower.