Patent · US Expired

Air filters

US4595401A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 10, 1981
Grant dateJun 17, 1986
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 10, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B3/10
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

In an air cleaner employing a pleated paper filter element in the form of a frustrum of a cone mounted in a tubular air cleaner casing having a first opening axially thereof communicating with the inside of said element at the relatively wide end of said frustrum and a second opening in the cylindrical wall of said casing communicating with the outside of said frustrum in the vicinity of the relatively narrow end thereof, the axis of said element is tilted relative to the axis of the cleaner casing away from said second opening, whereby the radial clearance between the filter element and said opening is increased for a given filter element without increasing the size of the casing.

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