A nestable framed pleated air filter, including a non-self-supporting, compressible, pleated air filter media with a plurality of oppositely-facing pleats and with a plurality of upstream pleat tips and downstream pleat tips and downstream pleat valleys, the pleated air filter media further including a plurality of bridging filaments that are bonded to at least some of the upstream pleat tips. The filter includes a frame with sidewalls that are angled so that the framed pleated air filter is nestable.

A purification device for disinfecting and filtering intake air is disclosed. The purification device comprises a housing provided with a number of inlet perforations for allowing the intake air to enter the housing and a number of air outlet perforations for allowing air purified by the purification device to leave the housing. The purification device moreover comprises a fan arranged inside the housing to suck the intake air into the housing and blow the purified air out of the housing. The purification device further comprises an ultraviolet radiation lamp arranged inside the housing to irradiate the intake air. The purification device also comprises a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter arranged to filter the intake air before the intake air leaves the housing as purified air. The filter comprises a plurality of pleats arranged in such a manner that the angle between adjacent pleats is 30 degrees or less.

In accordance with certain techniques for filtering contaminated air, the air is sucked through at least one filter element, which is exchangeably held in a filter-holding device of an air duct system. In order to enable continuous filtering without process interruption, a plurality of filter elements is stored in the filter-holding device in such a way that, when one of the filter elements is removed, the soiled filter element is automatically replaced in the air duct system. For this purpose, the filter-holding device has a plurality of filter chambers, which are arranged relative to one another in such a way that, in the event of an exchange, the filter element can be slidingly guided from one of the filter chambers into another filter chamber.

A modular filter for ventilation air vents comprises a filtering fabric roll (1) housed within a casing provided with anchoring means (13) engaging the surface (S) of the container which has the air intake port (B) to be filtered; the casing has a slot (9) for extracting the filtering fabric (T), and has a casing (4) comprised of a shaped wall (5) enclosed at the ends by covers (10, 40, 44, 51) or end supports (7, 47) of this wall having a shape corresponding to the shaped wall (5) and maintaining a longitudinal slot (9) at the front edges of the shaped wall to allow the passage for the extraction of the front (F) of the filtering fabric (T) unwound from the filtering fabric roll (1); at least one screw stay rod (8, 54) is placed between two covers (51) or end supports (7, 47) of the shaped wall and is tightened to define the proper distance between the two end supports or covers (51), by tightening the end supports (7, 47) or covers (51) to the shaped wall (5), one at each end, to close the access to the casing, and containing the filtering fabric roll (1) floating and free to rotate when the filtering fabric is dragged from the outside of the modular filter.

Various methods for producing the shaped wall (5) and finalizing the casing (4) of the modular filter are indicated.

A vertical furnace includes a chamber intended for receiving a loading column, an inlet channel for fresh gas, arranged at an upper end of the chamber, the loading column comprising an upper portion, and a central portion for supporting a plurality of substrates. The vertical furnace further comprises a trapping device made of at least one material suitable for trapping all or part of the contaminants present in the fresh gas. The trapping device includes a circular part arranged on the upper part of the loading column, the circular part comprising fins regularly distributed over an upper surface of the circular part in order to increase the contact surface of the trapping device with the fresh gas.

A device for treating fluid, in particular a filter device, has first and second tubular elements (12), (14) forming an element assembly (10). One element (14) is accommodated in the other element (12) forming a flow chamber (33) between the two elements (12, 14), with a first element (12) arranged in the direction of the inflow side (29) of a fluid to be treated and a second element (14) arranged in the direction of the outflow side (31) of the treated fluid in the element assembly (10). During the fluid treatment, the flow is routed through both elements (12, 14) in succession from the direction of the inflow side (29) towards the outflow side (31). In a joint viewing direction (P), the first element (12) facing the inflow side (29) at least partially has a uniform or non-uniform contour and the second element (14) facing the outflow side (31) at least partially has a non-uniform or uniform contour.

A filter cartridge for surgical gas delivery systems includes a filter housing configured to be seated in a filter cartridge interface of a surgical gas delivery system, with a plurality of flow paths defined through the filter housing including at least one evacuation/return flow path and at least one insufflation/sensing flow path. A humidity filter element is included in the evacuation/return flow path for removing humidity from an evacuation/return lumen of a tube set. The humidity filter element can include a sintered polymer material configured to provide tortuous flow paths therethrough to condense humidity out of a flow through the humidity filter element.

An air cleaner includes a base member including a base wall extending substantially horizontally, and a cover member attached to an upper side of the base wall to jointly define a filter chamber for receiving a filter element therein. The air cleaner further includes a passage member communicating with the filter chamber and incorporated with a plurality of air ejection pipes each surrounded by an annular air inlet passage fitted with guide vanes for rotating the air flow, and a case member defining separation chambers for separating dust from the rotating air flow. The passage member is interposed between the cover member and the case member.

An air cleaner assembly is disclosed, along with related methods. In one aspect, the air cleaner assembly has a housing including a housing body and a removable cover that together define an interior volume for holding a filter cartridge. The housing body can include a first plurality of lugs, wherein each of the first plurality of lugs has a first engagement surface disposed at a first angle that is oblique to a rotational plane of the cover. A second plurality of lugs can be provided on the cover, wherein each of the second plurality of lugs has a second engagement surface disposed at the first angle. A lock mechanism can also be provided that is disposed on the cover, wherein the lock mechanism includes a lock member axially movable between a locked position and an unlocked position to selectively secure the cover to the housing body.

Provided is a filter assembly including: a first filter medium (110) that is bent so that high-point portions (111) and low-point portions (113) defined based on a vertical plane with respect to a first direction are alternately and repeatedly formed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a first filter frame (130) configured to accommodate the first filter medium (110) and to fix an edge side of the first filter medium (110); a second filter medium (120) that is bent so that the low-point portions (121) and the high-point portions (123) defined based on the vertical plane with respect to the first direction are alternately and repeatedly formed in the second direction; and a second filter frame (140) configured to accommodate the second filter medium (120) and to fix an edge side of the second filter medium (120), wherein at least a portion of the high-point portions repeatedly formed in the first filter medium (110) have different heights from those of the other high-point portions, and at least a portion of the low-point portions repeatedly formed in the second filter medium (120) have different heights from those of the other low-point portions, and the first and second filter media (110, 120) are bent in such a way that a first filter medium high-point envelope (111a) connecting high points of the first filter medium (110) and a second filter medium low-point envelope (121a) connecting low points of the second filter medium (120) correspond to each other when viewed from a cross-section including the first direction and the second direction, and the first and second filter frames (130, 140) are combined with each other so that the first filter medium high-point envelope (111a) and the second filter medium low-point envelope (121a) face each other.