Patent ID: 8561809

Claim:
A portable counter top fluid filter assembly, comprising: a filter housing having a bottom cover and a hollow domelike cover enveloping a filter attaching to the bottom cover, the bottom cover including an inlet and an outlet; a filter base having a main body including a cylindrical trough-like top section having a flat interior surface, an inlet port and an outlet port, an elevated flat ring at the flat interior surface periphery, an upright protruding rim extending from the flat interior surface of the filter base proximal to the periphery and surrounding an outside bottom portion of the filter housing when the filter housing is engaged with the filter base, the protruding rim having female receptors on an outside surface of the rim recessed from the main body of the filter base, a bottom section beneath the trough-like top section having a flat bottom outer surface, an inlet entry port connecting to a fluid source and communicating with the inlet port of the trough-like top section, the inlet port connecting to the inlet of the filter housing, an outlet exit port connecting to a fluid delivery device and communicating with the outlet port of the trough-like top section, the outlet port connecting with the outlet of the filter housing; and, a filter locking ring locking the filter housing to the filter base having a flat ring base, an upright wall touching a side outside surface of the filter housing when introduced through and around the filter housing, the upright wall extending from a peripheral tip at an interior border of the flat ring base and recessed from the exterior peripheral tip of the flat ring base, a pin like protrusion at an inside surface of the flat ring base inserting into the female receptor of the filter base when the filter locking ring locks the filter housing to the filter base.