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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2013
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Nihat O. Cur, Stevensville, MI (US);
Kirk W. Goodwin, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Timothy A. Kee, Stevensville, MI (US);
James W. Kendall, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Steven John Kuehl, Stevensville, MI (US);
Verne H. Myers, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Ginger Elayne Patera, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Mark M. Senninger, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A liquid (water) pitcher that includes a pitcher having a liquid receiving aperture configured to allow a liquid (water) to be delivered into an interior liquid storage volume defined by at least one upwardly extending wall extending upward from a base and a liquid (water) filter positioned within the pitcher that includes a filter housing and at least one gravity-driven fluid treatment medium within the filter housing where the filter housing has a plurality of fluid intake apertures and at least one treated fluid outlet configured to deliver treated fluid into an internal volume of a vessel wherein the at least one fluid filtering medium treats the liquid at a rate of at least about one liter per minute while removing at least chlorine odor and chlorine taste components from the liquid (water).