Patent ID: 9555358
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: B01D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A filter for a spray coating system, the filter comprising: (a) a housing including a peripheral sidewall having an inlet opening on a first side and an outlet opening on a second, opposite side of the housing, the inlet and outlet openings providing substantially no resistance to the flow of air along a flow path extending through the housing from the inlet opening to the outlet opening; (b) a support backing disposed within the peripheral sidewall between the inlet and outlet openings, the support backing having at least a first substantially planar panel joined at a first edge to a first edge of a second substantially planar panel at a predetermined, non-parallel angle thereto, said first and second panels having openings formed therethrough to provide substantially no resistance to the flow of air through the panels; (c) a filtration material attached to the support backing; and (d) first and second end caps mounted within the housing to the support backing at opposite ends of the first and second panels and on opposite sides of the flow path transverse to the first edges of the first and second substantially planar panels, for maintaining said at least first and second substantially planar panels at the predetermined angle.