Filter Vessel Locking Assembly for Bag Retention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional filter assemblies face challenges in easily securing and unsecuring removable filter members, such as filter bags, from filter vessel assemblies, particularly under difficult conditions, indicating a need for improved systems or designs that facilitate secure and convenient attachment and detachment.
Innovation Solution
The development of a filter vessel assembly with a releasable locking assembly that includes a supporting assembly or basket assembly, featuring a locking mechanism with securing members and a gasketing system, allowing for easy and secure attachment and detachment of filter members, ensuring a fluid-tight seal and efficient filtration process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a conventional filter assembly uses a basket member to house and secure the filter bag, then the filter bag can be contained and positioned, but the filter bag is difficult to secure and unsecure during operations
Solution Approach 1:
The locking assembly is divided into separate functional components: a locking member with cam surface, securing members (clamps or clips) with release mechanisms, and a basket member with engagement features. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function efficiently while enabling easy operation through simple actuation of the release mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The locking mechanism incorporates movable securing members that can transition between locked and unlocked positions. The cam surface on the locking member provides a mechanical advantage that allows quick engagement and disengagement of the securing members, transforming a static basket into a dynamic locking system that responds to operator input.
2Reliability
If the filter assembly uses a simple basket member without locking mechanism, then the device complexity is reduced, but the filter bag cannot be securely held in position
Solution Approach 1:
The securing members are pre-configured with release mechanisms that are activated by the locking member. The cam surface is pre-positioned to engage with the securing members, so that when the locking member is actuated, the securing members automatically move to the locked or unlocked position without requiring additional manual manipulation.
Solution Approach 2:
The locking member acts as an intermediary between the operator and the securing members. By providing a cam surface that interacts with the securing members, the locking member translates simple operator input into reliable locking or unlocking action, ensuring secure attachment while maintaining operational simplicity.
3Reliability
If the filter assembly uses multiple securing mechanisms to ensure reliable filtration, then the filtration reliability is improved, but the time required for securing and unsecuring the filter bag increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple securing members (clamps or clips) are combined with a single locking member that controls all of them simultaneously. The cam surface on the locking member engages with all securing members at once, allowing them to be locked or unlocked in a single coordinated action. This merging reduces the time required for securing and unsecuring while maintaining the reliability provided by multiple securing points.
Solution Approach 2:
The locking mechanism operates through periodic action: a single actuation of the locking member causes all securing members to move from locked to unlocked position (or vice versa) in a rapid, coordinated sequence. This periodic action eliminates the need for sequential manipulation of each securing member, significantly reducing the time required for filter bag changes.
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AI summary
Improved filter vessel assemblies for filtering fluids in fluid systems (e.g., industrial and/or commercial systems) are provided. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for advantageous filter vessel assemblies that include a releasable locking assembly for a removable filter member (e.g., a filter bag). The present disclosure provides for improved systems/designs for easily securing and/or unsecuring removable filter members to or from a locking assembly of a filter vessel assembly. Improved, convenient, low-cost and/or effective systems and methods for easily securing and/or unsecuring removable filter members to or from a filter vessel assembly by utilizing advantageous locking assemblies associated with a supporting assembly or basket assembly of the filter vessel assembly are provided.