摘要 |
1. A filter cartridge for improving the quality of a pressureless supply of drinking water, comprising a vessel filled with ion-exchange resin and/or activated carbon and also a bacteriostatically acting material, in particular silver, in dissociable form, said vessel having an upright circumferential wall closed all round and also a top and a bottom end wall which are perforated in a sieve-like manner so as to form inlet and outlet openings, wherein the vessel comprises a collecting chamber separated from the outlet opening and intended to retain a limited amount of water, characterised in that to form one or more collecting chambers (30; 130) on at least one part of the periphery of the vessel, viewed in longitudinal section through the vessel (10; 110), the contour of the circumferential wall (12; 112) has, at a distance from the end walls (14, 16), at least one step (26; 126) which upwardly widens the vessel, and in that the part (24; 124) of the circumferential wall (12; 112) situated thereunder is extended beyond the step upwardly into the interior of the vessel. |