Patent ID: 6736273
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: B01D,F02M

Abstract:
In a filter for fluid fuels, having a supporting body supporting a filter fabric and serving to keep opposite sides of a filter body formed by the filter fabric spaced from one another, and a pump connection neck provided on the exterior of the filter body, which, in the interior of the filter body has an inlet opening, wherein the supporting body is enclosed in the filter fabric and has a connection to the exterior by the inlet opening and the pump connection neck and, wherein the filter has a first part comprising the pump connection neck and at least one second part positioned at an angle with respect to the first part, the improvement comprising the first part being formed by a monolithic tubular body having a main axis and an exterior, which, at its first end, has the pump connection neck positioned in a substantially right angle with respect to the main axis of the tubular body and, which, at its second end, has the axially extending inlet opening, said body including an imperforate tubular portion extending between said first end and said second end, in that the tubular body opposite to the pump connection neck has an intake opening covered by filter fabric, in that the filter body, made of the supporting body and the filter fabric, forms the second part of the filter and the filter body being fixedly connected with the tubular body in a chosen angular position with respect to the same.