Plastic scrim

摘要

The invention disclosed is an improved scrim means for use in a breathing gas filter assembly which includes a pleated web filter medium. The improved scrim means is of a non-woven microorganism resistant synthetic polymeric material of sufficient rigidity to provide substantially continuous support to maintain the pleats of the filter medium in substantially uniformly spaced relationship, to expedite fluid flow in the plane of the web and to minimize nesting of the filter medium.