Patent ID: 8162151
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: B01D

Abstract:
1. Flow-through device for fluids, comprising a housing having a head having a hooked inlet channel having an input and an output and an outlet channel with an input and an output; and a pot mountable on the head and which contains an exchangeable cartridge, said cartridge comprising a tubular active flow-through element having an axis, and including a space formed in the pot round the active flow-through element, said space being connected to the outlet channel; and a cap defining a flow-through channel with an inlet opening which is connected to the output of the inlet channel of the head when the pot is mounted on the head and which is directed mainly crosswise to the axial direction of the flow-through element, and an outlet opening which is connected to an inner space of the active flow-through element, wherein the inlet opening of the flow-through channel of the cap is eccentrically positioned in relation to the axis of the flow-through element, and further wherein the outlet opening of the flow-through channel is centrally positioned, and the flow-through channel in the cap has a variable flow-through section which, from the inlet opening towards the outlet opening, first decreases over a length and then increases again up to the outlet opening.