Mann+hummel Gmbh

Otto Eppel

Wolfgang Heikamp

Markus Zuerker

Eric Gillenberg

Melanie Hirsch

Bernhard Staudenmayer

Hans-Michael Winter

Sandra Poelloth

Michael Winter

Sandra Pölloth

Bruno Böhl

A filter element for separating a liquid from a gas stream, e.g. for de-oiling compressed air produced by an oil lubricated compressor, including an annularly closed filter medium and upper and lower end disks at the axial end faces of the annular filter medium, in which the lower end disk closes off an interior space formed by the filter medium, and a drainage tube extends into the interior space and is guided at the upper end disk by a preferably conical sealing element mounted on a support plate on the upper end disk such that when the filter element is installed in a container, the sealing element fits against and forms a seal with a cover of the container. The sealing element optionally has a hollow interior to facilitate compensation of tolerances in at least one of the x-direction and the y-direction.

Filter element with drainage tube

A filter element (), especially suitable for separating entrained oil from an air stream, having a drainage device () including a drainage tube () which is connected to an upper end disk () of the filter element () by a connector () which may include preferably releasable clip hooks (). The resulting filter element with a drainage device is easy and economical to manufacture, and may have a modular construction in which the connector () and the drainage tube () are separate components so that the length of the drainage tube can be optimally matched to various filter dimensions.

Filter element with a drainage tube

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Speyer, Germany

Otto Eppel