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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2016
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Andrew R. Fox, Oakdale, MN (US);
Jonathan M. Lise, Woodbury, MN (US);
John J. Rogers, St. Paul, MN (US);
Stephen M. Sanocki, Hudson, MN (US);
Kannan Seshadri, Woodbury, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A nestable framed pleated air filter, including a non-self-supporting, compressible, pleated air filter media with a plurality of oppositely-facing pleats and with a plurality of upstream pleat tips and downstream pleat tips and downstream pleat valleys, the pleated air filter media further including a plurality of bridging filaments that are bonded to at least some of the upstream pleat tips. The filter includes a frame with sidewalls that are angled so that the framed pleated air filter is nestable.