Liquid pitcher including divided fluid filter for inlet and outlet filtering

US9731234B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION · US

Inventors

• Nihat O. Cur · Three Rivers, US
• KIRK W. GOODWIN · Three Rivers, US
• Timothy A. Kee · Stevensville, US
• James W. Kendall · Rantoul, US
• Steven J. Kuehl · Stevensville, US
• Verne Myers · Fort Wayne, US
• Ginger Elayne Patera · Three Rivers, US
• Mark M. Senninger · Saint Joseph, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2013
• Grant date: Aug 15, 2017
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C02F2307/04
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A liquid (water) pitcher that includes a pitcher having a liquid receiving aperture configured to allow a liquid (water) to be delivered into an interior liquid storage volume defined by at least one upwardly extending wall extending upward from a base and a liquid (water) filter positioned within the pitcher that includes a filter housing and at least one gravity-driven fluid treatment medium within the filter housing where the filter housing has a plurality of fluid intake apertures and at least one treated fluid outlet configured to deliver treated fluid into an internal volume of a vessel wherein the at least one fluid filtering medium treats the liquid at a rate of at least about one liter per minute while removing at least chlorine odor and chlorine taste components from the liquid (water).