Filter apparatus

摘要

A centrifugal filter apparatus including a canister housing having a frusto-conical internal surface, and outlet adjacent the minor diameter of the internal surface and an inlet spaced axially toward a major diameter, a central annular filter element and centrifugal radial rotating fins extending radially from adjacent the external surface of the filter element to adjacent the generally frusto-conical internal surface of the canister having a generally frusto-conical outer surface conforming to the frusto-conical internal surface of the canister. In one embodiment, the filter apparatus includes a plurality of reaction canisters, where the outlet of the first canister is the inlet of the second canister and the radial fins drive reaction products from the first canister to the second canister.

主权项

1. A centrifugal filter apparatus comprising:
a canister housing having a frusto-conical internal surface, an outlet adjacent a minor diameter of the frusto-conical internal wall of the canister and an inlet spaced axially toward a major diameter of the internal surface receiving liquid and solids; a central annular filter element having a plurality of circumferentially spaced filter pores; centrifugal radial fins, extending generally radially from adjacent an external surface of said annular filter element, to adjacent said generally frusto-conical internal surface of said canister housing having a generally frustoconical outer surface generally conforming to the frusto-conical internal surface of the canister driving the solids received from the inlet of the canister toward the minor diameter of the canister; and a drive mechanism rotating the external centrifugal radial fins.