Patent ID: 6267887
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: C02F,E03C

Abstract:
A filter unit for attachment to a bathroom water source and for use with a filter cartridge and a spraying device, the filter unit comprising:a housing having a body with an interior space for receiving a filter cartridge and having an upper end and a lower end;a unidirectional, vertically oriented filter cartridge received in said housing body interior space, said filter cartridge comprising a carbon filter media for removal of chlorine from the water and a scale inhibitor media for treating scale-forming components in the water, said filter cartridge having an upper closed end and an lower opened end, said opened end of said unidirectional filter cartridge disposed at the body lower end;said housing further having a generally horizontal arm extending from said housing body;said housing further having an arm interior space in fluid communication with said body interior space;said housing further having an inlet port in fluid communication with the arm interior space, wherein the housing inlet port is adapted for attachment to the bathroom water source; andsaid housing further having an outlet port through the body lower end in fluid communication with the interior space of the body, wherein the housing outlet port is adapted for attachment to a spraying device.