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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
May. 22, 2003
Jacques Jean Chauquet, Bonneville, FR;
Rena S.A., , FR;
Abstract
A filter external to a tank, including a vessel, a lid for closing the vessel, a basket disposed in the vessel for housing filtering components, a top wall bearing sealingly in a central part of the lid allowing communication with the central part, a water-circulating pump disposed in the central part, and means for automatically removing air from a water delivery side, wherein the water is conveyed through the lid by first piping passing through the lid, the water moving down into the vessel on an outside of the basket, entering the basket via a bottom of the basket, passing upward through the basket over the filtering components and leaving the basket at a top of the basket in the central part to be sucked up by the pump and delivered to second piping passing through the lid toward a pipe delivering to the tank.