Mahle Gmbh

Knecht Filterwerke Gmbh

Hubert Muller

Rolf Mohle

Dietmar Sonntag

Hans Gebert

Thomas Brieden

Elke Bruss

Dietwart Guntert

An oil filter for internal combustion engines is disclosed herein. The filter includes a housing with a bottom arranged below an open top and a screw-on cover threadedly engaged within the open top. The housing includes an inlet duct, a first oil discharge duct in the bottom of the housing, and a second oil discharge duct in the bottom of the housing and coaxially surrounding the first oil discharge duct. A support part is provided within the housing having a first end which is connected to the cover in an axially force-transmitting manner and a second free end inserted into the first oil discharge duct when the cover fully threadedly engaged to the open end of said housing to sealingly close the first discharge duct, and is withdrawn from the discharge duct when the cover is removed from the open end of the housing to enable discharging of oil from the housing via the first oil discharge duct. The support part supports a primary flow filter element in a lower portion of the housing and a secondary flow filter element in an upper portion of the housing and fluidly connects the primary flow filter to the second discharge duct and the secondary flow filter to the first discharge duct. The cover, the support part, the primary flow filter, and the secondary flow filter can be removed from the housing as a unit. The primary and secondary flow filters are separable from the support part for replacement.

Oil filter including replaceable primary and secondary flow filter

An oil filter has a cap screwed to the approximately upright arranged filter housing of the oil filter for the cleaning of lubricating oil, with a ring-shaped filter insert being detachably fastened on the cap and separating the outer inflow space from the inner flow-off space. In the lower zone of the filter housing, provision is made for a valve-like acting member, which is automatically opened with each change of the filter insert and serves for discharging oil that remained in the filter housing into an oil-collecting space via a discharge duct. A center bar is rotatably connected with the cap. The center bar is axially displaceable in a limited way and has in its zone close to the cap a piston-like flange, which is sealed against the filter insert and separates the inflow space from the flow-off space. The center bar has, in its lower end zone, the valve-like acting member cooperating with the discharge duct.

Oil filter for the cleaning of lubricating oil

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Stuttgart, Germany

Hubert Muller