Johns Manville

Schuller International, Inc.

Charles Francis Kern

Philip Francis Miele

Michael John Cusick

Fred Lee Jackson

Craig Donald DePorter

Kenneth Andrew Clocksin

Bernd Christensen

Jack E Wilhelm

Barry Nelson Edge

Gary Eugene Chapman

Charles Russell Granger

James Calvin Bennett

A fluid filter media including a first media layer, a second media layer, a filter layer disposed between the first media layer and the second media layer, and a plurality of spaced apart weld points that couple the first media layer, the filter layer, and the second media layer together, where the weld points distort the surface of the first media layer and the second media layer, the fluid filter media is folded back on itself to form a plurality of pleats, and the surface distortions permit fluid flow through the fluid filter media when adjacent surfaces of the fluid filter media touch.

Separatorless pleated fluid filter

A biosoluble glass fiber filtration media includes a fibrous filtration layer of randomly oriented, entangled glass fibers which has an initial efficiency of 25% or greater as measured by ASHRAE 52.1 test method. The glass fibers forming the media have a biodissolution rate in excess of 150 ng/cm,/hr and a mean diameter between about 2.5&times;10,inches and about 11.0&times;10,inches. Typically, the filtration layer has a thickness ranging from about 0.12 inches to about 0.35 inches and a density ranging from about 3.0 g/ft,to about 8.0 g/ft,. The filtration has an initial pressure drop of about 0.35 inches of water or less and a dirt holding capacity of about 1.5 g/ft,or greater.

Biosoluble glass fiber filtration media

A composite filter media includes a fibrous filtration layer of randomly oriented fibers and one or more pleatable stiffening layers which enable the composite filter media to be pleated and hold or retain its pleats. The pleatable stiffening layer(s) may enhance the dirt holding capacity of the composite filter media especially when positioned upstream of the fibrous filtration layer. The composite filter media may also include a flexible covering layer which functions to block the loss of fibers from the fibrous filtration layer. Preferably, the mean fiber diameter of the fibers in fibrous filtration layer increases and the density of the fibrous filtration layer decreases throughout the thickness of the fibrous filtration layer from one major surface to the other major surface of the fibrous filtration layer.

Composite filter media

A composite filter media for bag or pocket filters and the like includes an upstream dirt-holding layer of fine polymeric fibers and a downstream high efficiency filtration layer of glass fibers. The upstream layer includes polymeric microfibers having a mean fiber diameter ranging from about 2.5 to about 4.5 microns, lofting fibers and binder fibers; and weighs between about 2.0 and about 7.0 grams per square foot. The glass fiber layer has a weight between about 1.2 and about 2.7 grams per square foot; the average diameter of the fibers in the glass fiber layer is within a range from 3.0.times.10.sup.-5 to 4.1.times.10.sup.-5 inches; and the fibers are bonded together at their points of intersection with a binder. The composite filter media has an average air filtration efficiency of at least 80%.

Polymeric fiber and glass fiber composite filter media

An air filtration media is formed of a blanket of fibers, preferably glass fibers, bonded together at their points of intersection with a binder. The blanket has a weight between about 2.5 and about 4.0 grams per square foot and the average diameter of the fibers in the blanket is within a range from 3.0 .times.10.sup.-5 to 4.1.times.10.sup.-5 inches. The blanket has an average air filtration efficiency of at least 80% and the pressure drop across the thickness of the blanket is no greater than 0.30 inches of water. The blanket can be used alone; with a permeable backing sheet; or with a second layer or blanket of filtration media, as part of a dual-phase or multi-phase air filtration media.

Air filtration media

Air filtration media is formed by collecting a layer of fine diameter glass fibers directly on a foraminous, reinforcing, backing layer and subsequently collecting a layer of relatively coarse diameter glass fibers directly on the layer of fine diameter glass fibers. A bonding agent carried by the glass fibers is then cured to bond the glass fibers within each layer together at their points of intersection, to bond the layers of fine and coarse glass fibers together and to bond the layer of fine diameter fibers to the backing layer. This method of forming the composite air filtration media permits the particle efficiency and the dirt loading capacity of the composite air filtration media to be adjusted during the production of the media by adjusting the diameters of the glass fibers in one or both of the layers and/or by adjusting the density of one or both of the layers.

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