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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
May. 08, 2019
Clack Corporation, Windsor, WI (US);
Don Vaughan, Waunakee, WI (US);
Michael Paquette, Madison, WI (US);
Clack Corporation, Windsor, WI (US);
Abstract
A distributor plate for a fluid treatment tank such as a water softener pressure vessel separates the resin bed from a lower end of the resin tank. The outer peripheral surface of the distributor plate is laser-welded to an inner peripheral surface of the tank. The outer peripheral surface of the distributor plate may have a biasing mechanism that biases the outer peripheral surface of the distributor plate against the inner peripheral surface of the tank. The biasing mechanism may include a plurality of peripherally-spaced resilient fingers extending axially and radially away from a circular base of an outer ring of the distributor plate into engagement with the inner peripheral surface of the tank liner, each of the fingers having a base connected to the base of the ring and having a free end. Also disclosed is a method of making a fluid treatment tank.