Patent ID: 7610645

Claim:
A filter cartridge cleaning apparatus comprising: a housing comprising a filter cartridge inlet, a filter cartridge outlet, and a drain; a brush mechanism for cleaning a filter cartridge passing through the housing; a guiding mechanism for feeding the filter cartridge toward the filter cartridge outlet; a water supply mechanism including a water inlet tube adapted to be connected to a water source and a plurality of sprinkling tubes connected to the water inlet tube and arranged along a traveling path of the filter cartridge in the housing, each said sprinkling tube including a plurality of nozzles for supplying water to the filter cartridge moving along the traveling path, with the filtering cartridge being cleaned by the brush mechanism and with sewage resulting from cleaning of the filter cartridge being drained via the drain of the housing; and a transmission mechanism for driving the brush mechanism and the guiding mechanism, wherein the brush mechanism comprises two vertical brush rods adjacent to a front end of the housing and two horizontal brush rods adjacent to a rear end of the housing, each of the vertical brush rods and the horizontal brush rods including a plurality of bristles for cleaning the filter cartridge that is passable through a gap between the vertical brush rods and a gap between the horizontal brush rods.