| 摘要 |
Devices (10), such as filters, catalytic converters and the like, for separating selected substances from a stream of fluid. The device is made of continuums (23A, 24A, 31, 32, 33, ...) made of filter material and arranged so that substantially all of the fluid passing through the filter must pass through the separation material. In one emb odiment the continuums, typically textile yarn, are arranged parallel to each other in planar arrays, such arrays are then super imposed to form a laminated grouping with each continuums in each array angularly oriented with respect to and in contact with continuums in each adjacent array. Two distinct patterns of internal distribution paths for the fluid being processed are thereb y formed by spacing between continuums, In preferred embodiment, the constituent continuums in each array cross those in ea ch next adjacent array channels formed by the aggregations of crossovers substantially at right angles to the plane of array a nd/or intra-array channels, that translaminar channels provide substantially straight channels that are at right angles to the planes of the arrays. Some translaminar channels are adapted for use as inlets (X) and others as egress (O) channels.
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