A shaped cross-section composite fiber for an intake filter is manufactured from a single material of polypropylene, without separate binder processing by using the single material of polypropylene as a filter material. The shaped cross-section composite fiber includes: a sheath comprising a reformed polypropylene resin; and a core comprising a polypropylene resin, where the sheath and the core are combined to provide a sheath-core structure.

Filter media, such as electret-containing filtration media for filtering gas streams (e.g., air), are described herein. In some embodiments, the filter media may be designed to have desirable properties such as stable filtration efficiency over the lifetime of the filter media, increased normalized gamma, relatively low pressure drop (i.e. resistance), and/or relatively low basis weight. In certain embodiments, the filter media may be a composite of two or more types of fiber layers where each layer may be designed to enhance its function without substantially negatively impacting the performance of another layer of the media. For example, one layer of the media may be designed to have a relatively low basis weight and/or a relatively high air permeability, and another layer of the media may be designed to have stable filtration efficiency and/or a relatively high efficiency throughout the filter media's lifetime. The filter media described herein may be particularly well-suited for applications that involve filtering gas streams (e.g., face masks, cabin air filtration, vacuum filtration, room filtration, furnace filtration, respirator equipment, residential or industrial HVAC filtration, high-efficiency particulate arrestance (HEPA) filters, ultra-low particular air (ULPA) filters, medical equipment), though the media may also be used in other applications.

A method for producing a woven personal respirator mask includes providing a plurality of warp ends into an electronic woven label loom, programming the loom to weave the warp ends into a sheet having a repeating mask pattern in the weave direction, the mask pattern comprising an edge border having a tight weave and defining therein a filter section, the filter section having a tubular weave to define an outer layer and an inner layer, at least one of the outer layer and an inner layers comprising a filter weave, and at least one intermediate interlock fastening at least a point of the outer layer to an opposing point on the inner layer, and cutting the sheet to separate the repeating mask pattern into individual mask parts with a hot-wire slitter.

A polyphenylene sulfide short fiber has a monofilament fineness of 0.70 to 0.95 dtex, a strength of 4.5 to 5.5 cN/dtex, a fiber length of 20 to 100 mm, and a melt flow rate (MFR) value of 200 to 295 g/10 min. The polyphenylene sulfide short fiber enables improvements to be made in the dust collection performance and mechanical strength without impairing the fiber productivity or felt productivity.

A laminated polyarylene sulfide heat-resistant filter has a plurality of layers, at least including a first web layer that is a filtering surface, and a second web layer that is a non-filtering surface, the laminated polyarylene sulfide heat-resistant filter being characterized in that the first web layer contains 30 to 70 wt % of polyarylene sulfide fibers having a fineness of 0.5 to 1.2 dtex, and 30 to 70 wt % of polyarylene sulfide fibers having a fineness of 1.3 to 3.0 dtex taking a total of a weight percentages of the first web layer as 100 wt %, wherein the second web layer contains polyarylene sulfide fibers having a fineness of 1.0 to 4.0 dtex.

The invention addresses the problem of providing a filter fabric for a bag filter, which has excellent collection performance and low pressure drop and is resistant to a decrease in dust collection performance due to abrasion or cracking, and also a method for producing the same. Means for resolution is a filter fabric for a bag filter in which a nonwoven fabric A including short fibers a having a single-fiber fineness of 0.3 to 0.9 dtex, a base fabric, and a nonwoven fabric B including short fibers b having a single-fiber fineness of 0.3 to 4.0 dtex are laminated in this order.

It is provided that a pre-air-filter, for an internal combustion engine, which allows stiffness to be assured even when the weight is reduced, which also has excellent dust holding properties, and which has an excellent resistance to entry of water. A pre-air-filter for an internal combustion engine (1) contains a nonwoven fabric comprising a first fiber having a melting point of not lower than 80 C. and not higher than 200 C., a second fiber having a melting point of higher than the melting point of the first fiber by not less than 30 C., being crimped, and having a hollow structure, entanglement of the first fiber and the second fiber by needle punching, and fusion of partly or entirely melted first fiber and the second fiber. This pre-air-filter (1) is installed at an air-inlet-side of a main-air-filter (2).

A device for providing purified water from a silt-laden source water having an upper canister, a lower canister, and a filter mounted in the upper canister; wherein the upper canister and the lower canister are fluidly connected via the filter; wherein pre-filtered water is collected in the upper canister and purified water is collected in the lower canister; wherein a pre-filter is fluidly connected between the source water and the upper canister; wherein the pre-filter has a pre-filter canister having an inlet for source water and an outlet for pre-filtered water; wherein the pre-filter canister contains a fine depth filter and a felt filter.

Disclosed herein are a filter medium and a bag filter for exhaust gas removal in which dropping off and scattering of a catalyst is suppressed during production and during use. Provided is a filter medium containing a fiber layer and a catalyst layer, the catalyst layer containing a catalyst and fibril fibers as main components. Also provided herein is a bag filter comprising the said filter medium, wherein the filter medium is cylindrical.

A cloth structure includes a first weaving layer, a second weaving layer interwoven with the first weaving layer, an intermediate connecting layer located between the first weaving layer and the second weaving layer, and a sun protection layer applied on the first weaving layer. The cloth structure presents a single-cloth fabric. The sun protection layer covers pores of the first weaving layer and forms a first protection layer to filter the smog. The first weaving layer is formed with inverted V-shaped cloth patterns, so that the first weaving layer forms a second protection layer to filter the smog. The intermediate connecting layer forms a third protection layer to filter the smog. The second weaving layer obstructs the thread openings of the first weaving layer and forms a fourth protection layer to filter the smog.