Patent ID: 7767083

Claim:
A fluid treatment arrangement comprising a fluid treatment assembly having a first fitting at a first end of the fluid treatment assembly and a second fitting at an opposite second end of the fluid treatment assembly and a manifold assembly having a first fitting and a second fitting, the first fitting of the manifold assembly being disposed at the first end of the fluid treatment assembly and axially aligned with the first fitting of the fluid treatment assembly and the second fitting of the manifold assembly being disposed at the opposite second end of the fluid treatment assembly and axially aligned with the second fitting of the fluid treatment assembly, the fluid treatment arrangement further comprising an actuator assembly cooperatively arranged with the manifold assembly and including a mechanism which moves, at the same time or nearly the same time, the first fitting of the manifold assembly linearly towards the first end of the fluid treatment assembly into sealing engagement with the first fitting of the fluid treatment assembly and the second fitting of the manifold assembly linearly towards the opposite second end of the fluid treatment assembly into sealing engagement with the second fitting of the fluid treatment assembly, both in response to movement of the mechanism from a first position to a second position, and which moves, at the same time or nearly the same time, the first fitting of the manifold assembly linearly away from the first end of the fluid treatment assembly out of sealing engagement with the first fitting of the fluid treatment assembly and the second fitting of the manifold assembly linearly away from the opposite second end of the fluid treatment assembly out of sealing engagement with the second fitting of the fluid treatment assembly, both in response to movement of the mechanism from the second position to the first position.