Patent ID: 9623351
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: B01D

Claim:
1. A filtration sealing system, the system comprising: a first housing section having a border therearound; a second housing section having a border therearound: a filter element between the first and second housing sections and having a border therearound; and a gasket extending in an x-y plane and providing a mating interface between the border around the filter element the borders around the first and second housing sections, a first side of the gasket engaging an entire periphery of the border around the first housing section and a second, opposite side of the gasket engaging an entire periphery of the border around the second housing section, at least one of the first side and the second side of the gasket having one or more humped arches humped in a z-direction that is perpendicular to the x-y plane; wherein one of the border around the first housing section, the border around the second housing section, and the border around the filter element has one or more concave recessed slits recessed in the z-direction and complementary receiving the humped arches therein; and wherein the gasket is sealed along the entire mating interface, including being sealed at all of the humped arches and all of the concave recessed slits, and blocks fluid flow across the gasket, including, blocking fluid flow across the humped arches and blocking fluid flow across the concave recessed slits.