Patent ID: 7380676

Claim:
A liquid filtering apparatus comprising a housing having, in a longitudinal direction, a first end and a second end, a side wall interconnecting the first end and the second end of the housing, a liquid inlet adjacent the first end of the housing, a liquid outlet adjacent the second end of the housing; a cylindrical shaft longitudinally extending between the first end and second end of the housing, and disposed centrally of the housing; a longitudinally extending imperforate hollow tube having a first end and a second end, and a diameter large enough to fit over the cylindrical shaft; first multi-apertured disc-shaped cover member with a centrally disposed sealing member, the sealing member extending internally and sealing the first end of the hollow tube; a second multi-apertured disc-shaped cover member with a centrally disposed second sealing member, the second sealing member extending internally and sealing the second end of the hollow tube; the side wall, the hollow tube and the cover members defining a filtering cavity, the filtering cavity being filled with a filtering portion, the filtering portion comprising a roll of paper wound around the hollow tube and extending laterally outwardly to the side wall, the first and second cover members being of similar outer diameter to the roll of paper and extending inwardly to the hollow tube, the roll of paper having a first end and a second end, and the roll of paper having a plurality of superimposed paper layers, the paper layers being aligned between the first and the second end, the paper layers being embossed with numerous small circumferentially aligned projections arranged in rows, each projection forming a cavity in the paper, the projections being arranged in an array with a lateral gap between each adjacent row of circumferentially aligned projections, the filtering apparatus defining a fluid channel between the first and second cover members and the hollow tube and the side wall, such that liquid entering through the liquid inlet passes longitudinally through the roll of paper between the layers thereof fi'om the first end to the second end thereof and passes through the lateral gap and the cavities formed by the projections before leaving the filtering apparatus through the liquid outlet.