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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2012
Michael J. Sherman, Woodbury, MN (US);
Lori Foix, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Steven J. Haehn, Oakdale, MN (US);
Erik Robert Klimpel, Woodbury, MN (US);
David William Fisher, Eagan, MN (US);
David T. Bardwell, Woodbury, MN (US);
Steven Karl Wilson, Pine City, MN (US);
James Boyer Larson, Stillwater, MN (US);
Stephen P. Huda, Shelton, CT (US);
Frank A. Brigano, Northford, CT (US);
Michael J. Sherman, Woodbury, MN (US);
Lori Foix, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Steven J. Haehn, Oakdale, MN (US);
Erik Robert Klimpel, Woodbury, MN (US);
David William Fisher, Eagan, MN (US);
David T. Bardwell, Woodbury, MN (US);
Steven Karl Wilson, Pine City, MN (US);
James Boyer Larson, Stillwater, MN (US);
Stephen P. Huda, Shelton, CT (US);
Frank A. Brigano, Northford, CT (US);
KX Technologies LLC, West Haven, CT (US);
Abstract
The present invention presents a filtration system with an integrated manifold valve. The filtration system employs only one pivotal component—the pivoting of the manifold. The manifold valve includes a dual aperture design for a two-fold alignment scheme with the ingress and egress lines of the fluid source. The invention is free of multi-component rotary valve with internal, rotatable parts, or an activation component, such as a handle, for initiating the rotary valve, allowing the user to rotate the rotational components thereof. The reduction in moveable components in this design reduces the likelihood of failure and increases the reliability of the filtration system.