Patent ID: 6350291
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: B01D,Y02A,Y10S

Abstract:
A filter element arrangement for use in an air cleaner housing having an internal annular sealing surface; the filter element arrangement being removable and replaceable within the air cleaner housing upon relative axial movement between the filter element arrangement and the internal annular sealing surface of the housing; the filter element arrangement comprising:(a) a coiled media construction having: first and second ends; a first flow face at the first end; and a second flow face at the second end; (i) the media within said coiled media construction forming a plurality of flutes; each of the flutes having a first end positioned adjacent to the first flow face and a second end positioned adjacent to the second flow face; (A) a first set of selected ones of the flutes being open at the first end and closed at the second end; and (B) a second set of selected ones of said flutes being closed at the first end and open at the second end; (ii) said coiled media construction having a longitudinal axis passing through the first flow face and the second flow face; (b) a sealing system including a frame construction and a seal member; (i) the frame construction including an extension projecting axially from one of the first and second flow faces and in a same direction as the longitudinal axis; (A) the extension of the frame construction having an outer circumferential surface; (B) the extension of the frame construction being an annular sealing support for the seal member; (ii) the seal member being positioned on, and being supported by, the extension of the frame construction; (A) at least a portion of the seal member being positioned on and peripherally around the outer circumferential surface of the extension; (B) the seal member including an outwardly directed, peripheral, sealing surface, the seal member peripheral sealing surface being oriented to form a releasable, peripherally directed, seal between the filter element arrangement and a housing internal annular sealing surface, as a result of axial insertion of the filter element arrangement into the air cleaner housing, by compression of the seal member between and against the annular sealing support of the extension and the internal annular scaling surface of the housing.