Patent ID: 8038879
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: B01D,E04H

Abstract:
1. A fluid strainer apparatus adapted to remove debris from a stream of fluid, the apparatus comprising: (A) a housing including a front portion, a back portion, a pair of spaced apart side portions, a bottom portion and a top portion defining a chamber, said front portion having at least one fluid input port and said back portion having at least one fluid outlet port for flowing the stream of fluid through said housing; (B) a fluid deflector bulkhead plate extending transversely across said chamber between said side portions proximately to said front portion and having a plurality of first slotted openings formed therein; and (C) a plurality of strainer baskets adapted to be disposed side-by-side within said chamber and supported therein in a mounted state, each said strainer basket including wherein each said strainer basket, when supported in the mounted state, has the open front portion thereof aligned with a respective first slotted opening; and wherein the first slotted openings and the open front portions of the mounted strainer baskets together extend across substantially the entirety of the cross-sectional area of said fluid input port such that said fluid deflector plate directs the fluid stream that enters the fluid inlet port into the open front portions of said strainer baskets, and substantially all of the stream of fluid enters said strainer baskets and exits through perforated ones of said top portion, said bottom portion, said back portion and said side portions and thereafter flows out of the fluid outlet port.