Nifco Inc.

Yamakawa Industry Company Ltd.

Masaaki Sugiyama

Takuo Yuda

Akira Mizusawa

Disclosed is a cylindrical closed strainer molded of a plastic in a unitary structure, which comprises a top plate, a bottom plate disposed opposite said top plate at a fixed interval therefrom and a cylindrical net stretched between the peripheries of said top plate and bottom plate, said top plate being possessed of snap fastening means on the upper surface thereof and provided with a through hole which has a diameter larger than the outside diameter of a suction pipe intended to be connected with the strainer body and is provided on the inner circumference of said through hole with a thin seal member coaxially containing a circular hole of a diameter smaller than said outside diameter of the suction pipe. Said suction pipe is provided with a flange which is adapted to rest stably on the upper surface of said top plate. When the suction pipe is forcibly inserted through the circular hole of said seal member until the fastening means of the top plate snap into fast engagement with the flange, the suction pipe and the strainer body are united with force enough to defy inadvertent separation.

Combination strainer and suction inlet pipe

Disclosed is a strainer which is suitable for use in supplying gasoline from a gasoline tank by means of a suction pipe. A strainer according to this invention comprises a cylindrical body having a net applied to the periphery thereof and a cover which is adapted to closely cover the top opening of the cylindrical body. The cover has an annular projection around the through hole at the center. In use, the cover is fit onto the top opening of the cylindrical body and then the end of a suction pipe is inserted in the cylindrical body through the annular projection. The structures of the cylindrical body and the cover are amenable to production by injection molding, and are easy to assemble.

Strainer

Disclosed are a strainer and a method of injection-moulding the strainer of plastics. A strainer according to this invention comprises a pair of semi-cylindric shells integrally and movably connected along their adjacent longitudinal sides in the state of being developed; top and bottom circular boards integrally connected to the top and bottom frames of one of said semi-cylindric shells; and nets integrally connected to each of said semi-cylindric shells. This developed structure of the strainer makes it possible to injection-mould a semi-product of strainer as a whole in a single injection-mould die, and a so moulded and developed strainer is easily assembled in the final and complete cylindric shape by simply closing the semi-cylindric shells and integrally connecting them along their abutting longitudinal sides.

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Fuji, Japan

Masaaki Sugiyama