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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2002
Willie Luther Stamey, Jr., Kings Mountain, NC (US);
Gregory Keith Rhyne, Denver, NC (US);
Willie Luther Stamey, Jr., Kings Mountain, NC (US);
Gregory Keith Rhyne, Denver, NC (US);
Wix Filtration Corp., Gastonia, NC (US);
Abstract
A lubricating oil filter has a housing which includes a first shell providing a housing base and a second shell providing a housing lid, wherein a filter media is suspended in a space defined by the shells by being clamped between a shoulder in the housing base and a rib projecting from the housing lid. The filter media may be either a flat filter media or a pleated pack filter media. In a preferred configuration, the housing is rectangular and has both an unfiltered oil inlet and a filtered oil outlet in the first shell forming the housing base so that the filter element may be changed without disconnecting the lubricating oil filter from inlet and outlet lines.