Liquid purification or separation – Filter – Within flow line or flow line connected close casing
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-01
2009-06-09
Menon, Krishnan S (Department: 1797)
Liquid purification or separation
Filter
Within flow line or flow line connected close casing
C210S437000, C210S444000, C210S457000, C210S455000, C210S130000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07543711
ABSTRACT:
A filter element is removably positionable within a filter housing defining a filter chamber for said filter element. The filter housing comprises a standpipe extending within the filter chamber. The filter element includes a tubular filter media circumscribing the standpipe, a first end cap supporting the filter media at one end thereof, a second end cap longitudinally spaced from the first end cap and supporting the filter media at the opposite end thereof, and a center tube extending between the first and second end caps. The center tube has at least one inlet opening therethrough, a bypass opening at a first end thereof adjacent to the first end cap and a standpipe opening at a second end thereof adjacent to the second end cap and through which the standpipe is adapted to be inserted longitudinally into the center tube.
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Roll Mark Allen
Stamey, Jr. Willie L.
Gonzalez Madeline
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
Menon Krishnan S
Wix Filtration Corp LLC
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