Patent ID: 7905936

Claim:
An air filter cartridge arrangement installable in an air cleaner housing during use; the air filter cartridge arrangement comprising: (a) a media pack having: (i) an inlet flow end and an opposite outlet flow end; (ii) a plurality of inlet flow flutes open at the inlet flow end and closed to passage of air therefrom adjacent the outlet flow end; (iii) a plurality of outlet flow flutes closed adjacent the inlet flow end and open to outlet flow at the outlet flow end; (iv) an oval cross-sectional shape; and, (v) a media pack side extending between the inlet flow end and the opposite outlet flow end; (b) a radially outwardly directed housing seal arrangement secured to an end of the media pack; (i) the housing seal arrangement comprising a seal member mounted on a frame portion; and (c) a band defining an interior and having the media pack positioned therein and permanently mounted thereto; (i) the band having an ramp-engagable end portion for selective engagement with a housing ramp during installation of the filter cartridge into a housing; the ramp-engagable end portion being at an end of the media pack remote from the housing seal arrangement; (ii) the ramp engageable end portion of the band having an end grid extending thereacross; the end grid extending across an end of the media pack remote from the end at which the radially directed housing seal arrangement is located; (iii) the band having a cross-sectional shape with two opposite curved ends and two opposite sides; and, (iv) the band having a projection arrangement to provide for grasping of the band during handling; the projection arrangement being spaced from the housing seal arrangement toward an end of the media pack remote from the housing seal arrangement; (A) the projection arrangement on the band, to provide for grasping, comprising a handle: secured in overlap with a first one of the curved ends of the band and not in overlap with either of the two opposite sides of the band; and, having a recess region, for receipt of fingertips during handling, provided between a portion of the handle and the side of the media pack adjacent the first one of the curved ends of the band; (v) the band being spaced from, and separate from, the frame portion of the housing seal arrangement.