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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Markus Beer, Morsbach, DE;
Marco Rosendahl, Morsbach, DE;
Assignee:
SPX Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 3/502 ; F01M 1/103 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 3/502 ; F01M 1/103 ;
Abstract
A suction oil filter for transmissions or engines with a top shell, a bottom shell, with an oil intake opening and an oil outlet, said suction oil filter being positioned in an oil pan or in the transmission housing, characterized in that the oil intake opening has arranged therein a movable intake tube which is pressed by resilient means mounted on the inside of the intake tube outwards onto the oil pan base or the transmission housing and an oil intake opening is thus created at a defined constant distance from the oil pan base or transmission housing.