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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2013
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Scott Hugh Bradford, Gavirate, IT;
Marco Casucci, Varese, IT;
David P. Cooper, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Nihat O. Cur, Stevensville, MI (US);
Beth M. Jackson, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Timothy A. Kee, Stevensville, MI (US);
James W. Kendall, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Italo Renzo Menegon, Brenta, IT;
Verne H. Myers, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Ginger Elayne Patera, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Mark M. Senninger, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Gordon Jay Stannis, Saugatuk, MI (US);
Sara Manfredini-Taube, Varese, IT;
Torsten Rickard Mathias-Tingstrom, Ispra, IT;
Joel Graham Vanfaasen, Holland, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A gravity-driven fluid filtering system that includes a universal fluid (typically water) filter and a plurality of differently sized fluid dispensing adapters. The universal fluid filter includes: at least one gravity-driven fluid filter media; a housing having an interior and at least one fluid inlet aperture configured to allow a fluid to be treated to enter the interior of the housing by a force of gravity and into contact with the at least one gravity-driven water filter media spaced within the interior of the housing; and at least one treated fluid outlet aperture configured to deliver treated fluid to at least one of a plurality vessels each having a differently sized fluid receiving aperture. The plurality of differently sized fluid dispensing adapters each having a sloped and contoured fluid receiving portion, which is different for each adapter.