Water Filter Priming Bag for Pressurized Gravity Filter Wetting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gravity fed water filters, particularly high-performance ones, require laborious and time-consuming priming methods such as passive soaking, which is inefficient and not suitable for densely packed filter media, leading to compromised filtration quality and increased user inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A hand-held water filter priming bag with a flexible water container and rigid filter connector, designed for direct attachment to the filter, allows for efficient priming with a single squeeze, providing targeted water pressurization to the filter inlet, covering a significant area and eliminating the need for multiple refills.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If passive soaking method is used for priming gravity fed water filters, then the filter media can be adequately wetted, but the process is laborious and time consuming requiring several hours or overnight soaking
Solution Approach 1:
The priming bag pre-fills the filter media with water before use, performing the wetting action in advance through direct pressurized delivery rather than relying on prolonged passive soaking. The bag is filled with water beforehand and then attached to the filter to force water through the media immediately.
Solution Approach 2:
The priming bag utilizes hydraulic pressure by filling with water and using the weight and pressure of the water column to force water through the filter media. The flexible bag design allows manual compression to increase pressure and accelerate water flow through the densely packed filter elements.
2Reliability
If high density filter elements are used in high performance gravity fed water filters, then contaminant removal performance is improved, but the filter becomes difficult to prime with traditional methods
Solution Approach 1:
The priming bag applies hydraulic pressure to force water through the high density filter media. By filling the flexible bag with water and using gravitational pressure plus manual compression, sufficient force is generated to penetrate the densely packed filter elements and achieve proper priming without prolonged soaking.
Solution Approach 2:
The filter media is pre-wetted by forcing water through it using the priming bag before the filter is put into service. This preliminary wetting action saturates the high density media, eliminating air pockets and preparing the filter for immediate operation without requiring extended soaking periods.
3Reliability
If high performance pitcher gravity fed water filters are designed with densely packed filter media, then filtration quality is improved, but multiple refills are required for adequate priming
Solution Approach 1:
The priming bag uses hydraulic pressure from a large volume of water (multiple cups capacity) to force water through the entire filter media bed in a single operation. The pressurized delivery ensures complete saturation of the densely packed media, achieving adequate priming with one filling and squeezing action rather than multiple refills.
Solution Approach 2:
The priming bag delivers a large volume of water in advance to pre-saturate the entire filter media bed before use. This preliminary action ensures that all filter elements are adequately wetted in one operation, eliminating the need for multiple refilling cycles and improving priming efficiency.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The priming bag enables rapid and effective priming of high-performance gravity fed filters, ensuring adequate filtration without the need for repeated soaking, thus maintaining filtration quality and user convenience.
Implementation Method 1
The filter may comprise a water container portion made from flexible material; and a a filter connector component made from a rigid material
Implementation Method 2
wherein an interior of the water container portion is in fluid communication with an exterior of the water filter priming bag via the outlet
Implementation Method 3
High performance gravity fed water filters contain more types of contaminant filtering media than other loosely packed low performance gravity-fed filtering systems. High performance gravity fed water filters expose untreated water to significantly more surface area during the purification process, which namely involves pushing water, by way of gravity, through a variety of media substrates
Implementation Method 4
pushing water, by way of gravity, through a variety of media substrates that are compressed into a solid element that is porous
Implementation Method 5
High performance gravity fed water filters contain more types of contaminant filtering media than other loosely packed low performance gravity-fed filtering systems
Data Source
AI summary
A hand-held water filter priming bags for priming a high performance gravity fed water filters has a flexible water container portion permanently sealed to a threaded filter connector component. A handle extends longitudinally along at least substantially the entire diameter of a base section of the filter connector component. The handle comprises a continuous flange spanning substantially the diameter of the base section and surrounding an outlet extending through the base section. Flexible water container portion is sealed to the continuous flange. An interior of the water container portion is in fluid communication with an exterior of the bag via the outlet. The bag outlet is configured for highly targeted pressurization of high-performance filters. A priming bag system includes the hand-held water filter priming bag. Methods of priming allow for efficient fully priming of high performance filters.