Patent ID: 6174439
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: B65B,B65D

Abstract:
A filter package enabling the filter to be stored and shipped in a wet state without the filter drying out, the filter package comprising a sanitized filter cartridge for removal of particulates from a fluid and having a porous filter medium including a plurality of pores through which the fluid can pass between upstream and downstream sides of the filter cartridge during filtration to remove particulates from the fluid, a flexible bag which surrounds the filter cartridge and has walls extending between an upper end and a lower end thereof, the walls comprising a polymeric material impervious to microorganisms and liquid water, and sanitized water hermetically sealed inside the bag and substantially permeating the pores of the filter medium and immersing substantially 100% of a volume of the filter cartridge, the bag being hermetically sealed around the filter cartridge with substantially all air excluded from the bag.