CN212770207U - Household self-turbulent water purifier - Google Patents
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A household self-turbulent water purifier belongs to the technical field of purification equipment; the ceramic filter column adopts an inorganic ceramic membrane filter element, the maximum filter precision can reach 0.1 micron, the filter precision is higher than the filter precision of 50 microns of the conventional stainless steel net, and the filter effect on the particles in the pipeline tap water is better than that of the stainless steel net; turbulent flow particles are filled in the filter shell, the turbulent flow particles are made of light porous ceramic materials, the particle size of the turbulent flow particles is 3mm-5mm, the specific gravity of the turbulent flow particles is 1.2-1.4g/cm3, the specific gravity is slightly larger than water, the turbulent flow particles can randomly move along with water flow, and the surface of the ceramic filter element is scrubbed while the flow direction of the water flow is changed; reducing agent particles and activated carbon particles are filled in the ceramic filter column, the effluent filtered by the ceramic filter column is treated, and the disinfectant added in the water is adsorbed and reduced, so that the influence of the disinfectant in the water on the skin surface of a human body is reduced, and the ceramic filter column is suitable for water treatment in the aspects of showering, skin beautifying and the like.
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Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of clarification plant, specifically relate to a family expenses are from turbulent water purifier.
Background
The domestic water is used in kitchen, bathroom and other places, relating to kitchen, drinking, washing and other aspects, and most of urban domestic water is supplied to a domestic water terminal through an urban water supply network after being treated by urban tap water plants. The quality of the factory water of the urban tap water plant meets the requirement of drinking water in life through detection, but in the process of supplying the factory water to the household terminal through the urban water supply network, the quality of the household terminal water is often reduced in actual use due to the problems of corrosion, aging, leakage of the water supply pipeline, pollution of a secondary water supply tank and the like, and yellow water, red water and the like often appear in old districts or newly-built districts, so that the use impression of residents in life is seriously influenced.
Along with the gradual improvement of living standard, resident domestic water quality requirement also improves thereupon, and the promotion of resident domestic water health consciousness makes more and more residents select to put forward higher requirement to the domestic water terminal, and the appearance of pipeline filter, family terminal water purifier is in resident family life.
The stainless steel mesh filter of certain precision is adopted to conventional pipeline filter more, the cleaning means is joined in marriage to conventional style, utilize raw water and scrape the impurity of washing device to stainless steel mesh surface deposit and scrape and wash and erode, but conventional pipeline filter fineness is lower, and be greater than 50 microns more, can't intercept more tiny particulate matter, and the cleaning cycle receives untimely personnel operation influence, can't accomplish in time to wash, and the pipeline filter purchase cost who takes self-cleaning is high, the popularization of filter has been influenced.
The conventional household water purifier is generally large in size, water purifying means such as PP cotton, activated carbon, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis are configured, the water quality of the purified water is generally guaranteed, but the purified water is limited by the area of a reverse osmosis membrane, and the purified water flow of the conventional household water purifier is mostly lower than 1L/min and cannot provide the water volume of domestic water. The domestic water purifier provided with the domestic large-flow domestic water treatment means mostly uses a PP cotton filter element, is dead-end filtration, cannot be cleaned and has short service life.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model mainly solves the technical problems existing in the prior art and provides a household self-turbulent water purifier.
The above technical problem of the present invention can be solved by the following technical solutions: the household self-turbulent water purifier comprises a filter bottom seal, a filter end seal and a filtering filter element, wherein the filter bottom seal comprises a filter shell and a filter water inlet nut, the inner side of the upper end of the filter shell is provided with a threaded belt, the upper side of the threaded belt is provided with a sealing groove, the upper side of the inner part of the filter water inlet nut is provided with a filter water inlet, the lower side of the filter water inlet, which is positioned in the filter water inlet nut, is provided with a sealing gasket, the filter water inlet nut is arranged at the lower end of the filter shell, the filter water inlet is communicated with the inner part of the filter shell, the inner wall of the filter is polished, the filtering filter element is arranged in the filter shell and comprises a filter element end seal and a ceramic filtering column, the lower side of the filter element end seal is provided, the upper side of the concave opening is provided with PP filter cotton, the upper side of the PP filter cotton is provided with an upper stainless steel filter screen, the lower end of the filter element end enclosure is provided with a lower connector, the outer side of the upper end part of the filter element end enclosure is provided with an upper connector, the side surface of the upper connector is provided with a first sealing ring, the lower end of the ceramic filter column is a round-head plug, the upper end of the ceramic filter column is a cylindrical hole, a plurality of reducing agent particles and a plurality of active carbon particles are respectively filled in the cylindrical hole, the upper end of the ceramic filter column is arranged in the lower connector and is bonded with the filter element end enclosure, the filter end enclosure comprises an end enclosure bottom connector, a second sealing ring, an end enclosure brim and an end enclosure water outlet, the center of the end enclosure brim is provided with a horn-shaped through hole, the end enclosure water outlet is arranged, communicating with each other between head delivery port and the tubaeform through-hole, the downside on head eaves limit is located to the interface at the bottom of the head, the second sealing washer is located between the downside on head eaves limit and the outside of interface at the bottom of the head, be equipped with end interface external screw thread on the outer lane of interface at the bottom of the head, the medial surface of interface is level and smooth at the bottom of the head, the upper end of filter shell is located to the filter head, the filter head is connected with filter shell through end interface external screw thread and threaded band threaded connection, the seal groove of impressing when interface and threaded band fasten at the bottom of the head is sealed to the second sealing washer, the inside of interface is gone into to the bottom of the head is inserted to the upper end of filter core head, go up the inboard of interface and the interface at the bottom of.
Preferably, a U-shaped cavity is arranged between the filter shell and the ceramic filter column, a plurality of turbulent flow particles are arranged in the U-shaped cavity, the turbulent flow particles are made of light porous ceramic materials, the particle size of the turbulent flow particles is 3-5 mm, and the specific gravity of the turbulent flow particles is 1.2-1.4g/cm3And the surface hardness of the turbulent flow particles is lower than that of the ceramic filter column.
Preferably, the ceramic filter column adopts an inorganic ceramic membrane filter element, and the maximum filtering precision is 0.1 micron.
Preferably, the center of the sealing gasket is provided with a lower stainless steel filter screen, and the filtering precision of the lower stainless steel filter screen is 60 meshes.
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the ceramic filter column adopts an inorganic ceramic membrane filter element, the maximum filter precision can reach 0.1 micron, the filter precision is higher than the filter precision of 50 microns of the conventional stainless steel net, and the filter effect on the particles in the pipeline tap water is better than that of the stainless steel net; turbulent flow particles are filled in the filter shell, the turbulent flow particles are made of light porous ceramic materials, the particle size of the turbulent flow particles is 3mm-5mm, the specific gravity of the turbulent flow particles is 1.2-1.4g/cm3, the specific gravity is slightly larger than water, the turbulent flow particles can randomly move along with water flow, and the surface of the ceramic filter element is scrubbed while the flow direction of the water flow is changed; the surface hardness of the turbulent flow particles is lower than that of the ceramic filter column, so that the abrasion degree of the surface of the ceramic filter column is reduced, the influence on the filtering precision of the ceramic filter column is reduced, and a pollution layer on the surface of the ceramic filter column can be effectively scrubbed; reducing agent particles and activated carbon particles are filled in the ceramic filter column, the effluent filtered by the ceramic filter column is treated, and a disinfectant added in the water is adsorbed and reduced, so that the influence of the disinfectant in the water on the skin surface of a human body is reduced, and the ceramic filter column is suitable for water treatment in the aspects of showering, skin beautifying and the like; the ceramic filter column has good temperature resistance and is suitable for filtering water for a water heater; the stainless steel filter screen filtering precision is 60 meshes down, can keep apart turbulent flow granule, intercepts large granule thing such as iron rust, silt in the pipeline simultaneously, and carries out precutting to the influent stream, increases rivers turbulent flow degree.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an exploded structure of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a filter bottom seal according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of portion B of FIG. 2;
fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the filter element of the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of the filter element sealing head of the present invention;
fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of the filter head of the present invention;
fig. 8 is a schematic view of an internal structure of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of portion C of FIG. 8;
fig. 10 is a schematic view of an operating state of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. sealing the bottom of the filter; 2. sealing the filter head; 3. a filter element; 4. a filter housing; 5. a filter water inlet nut; 6. a threaded band; 7. a sealing groove; 8. a filter water inlet; 9. a gasket; 10. sealing the filter element; 11. a ceramic filter column; 12. an inward concave opening; 13. a circular hole; 14. PP filter cotton; 15. a stainless steel filter screen is arranged; 16. a lower connector; 17. an upper connecting port; 18. a first seal ring; 19. a cylindrical bore; 20. particles of a reducing agent; 21. activated carbon particles; 22. A seal head bottom interface; 23. a second seal ring; 24. sealing the eaves edge; 25. a water outlet of the seal head; 26. a trumpet-shaped through hole; 27. A U-shaped cavity; 28. turbulent particles; 29. a stainless steel filter screen is arranged; 30. the direction of the water flow; 31. the direction of movement.
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The technical solution of the present invention is further specifically described below by way of examples and with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example (b): a household self-turbulent water purifier is shown in figures 1-10 and comprises a filter bottom seal, a filter end socket and a filter element, wherein the filter bottom seal comprises a filter shell and a filter water inlet nut, the inner side of the upper end part of the filter shell is provided with a thread belt, the upper side of the thread belt is provided with a sealing groove, the upper side inside the filter water inlet nut is provided with a filter water inlet, a sealing gasket is arranged inside the filter water inlet nut and on the lower side of the filter water inlet, the filter water inlet nut is arranged at the lower end of the filter shell, the filter water inlet is communicated with the inside of the filter shell, the inner wall of the filter is polished, the filter element is arranged inside the filter shell and comprises a filter element end socket and a ceramic filter column, the lower side of the filter element end socket is provided with an, the center of the upper end of the filter element end enclosure is provided with a round hole, the upper side of the concave opening is provided with PP filter cotton, the upper side of the PP filter cotton is provided with an upper stainless steel filter screen, the lower end of the filter element end enclosure is provided with a lower connecting port, the outer side of the upper end part of the filter element end enclosure is provided with an upper connecting port, the side surface of the upper connecting port is provided with a first sealing ring, the lower end of the ceramic filter column is a round head plug, the upper end of the ceramic filter column is a cylindrical hole, the cylindrical hole is filled with a plurality of reducing agent particles and a plurality of activated carbon particles, the upper end of the ceramic filter column is arranged in the lower connecting port and is bonded with the filter element end enclosure, the filter end enclosure comprises an end enclosure bottom interface, a second sealing ring, an end enclosure edge and an end enclosure water outlet, the center of the end enclosure eaves edge is provided, communicating with each other between head delivery port and the tubaeform through-hole, the downside on head eaves limit is located to the interface at the bottom of the head, the second sealing washer is located between the downside on head eaves limit and the outside of interface at the bottom of the head, be equipped with end interface external screw thread on the outer lane of interface at the bottom of the head, the medial surface of interface is level and smooth at the bottom of the head, the upper end of filter shell is located to the filter head, the filter head is connected with filter shell through end interface external screw thread and threaded band threaded connection, the seal groove of impressing when interface and threaded band fasten at the bottom of the head is sealed to the second sealing washer, the inside of interface is gone into to the bottom of the head is inserted to the upper end of filter core head, go up the inboard of interface and the interface at the bottom of.
A U-shaped cavity is arranged between the filter shell and the ceramic filter column, a plurality of turbulent flow particles are arranged in the U-shaped cavity, the turbulent flow particles are made of light porous ceramic materials, the particle size of the turbulent flow particles is 3-5 mm, and the specific gravity of the turbulent flow particles is 1.2-1.4g/cm3And the surface hardness of the turbulent flow particles is lower than that of the ceramic filter column.
The ceramic filter column adopts an inorganic ceramic membrane filter element, and the maximum filtering precision is 0.1 micron.
The center of the sealing gasket is provided with a lower stainless steel filter screen, and the filtering precision of the lower stainless steel filter screen is 60 meshes.
The embodiment of the water purification process of the utility model describes:
the filter shell consists of a filter bottom seal and a filter top seal, and the filter shell consists of a filter core and turbulent flow particles which are filled inside the filter shell;
after the water pipe is connected into a tap water pipeline, tap water enters the filter shell from the water inlet of the filter, water flow is precut through the lower stainless steel filter screen, turbulent flow particles falling to the bottom in the filter shell are washed by the water flow to move irregularly, and the flow direction of the water flow among the particles is continuously changed along with the irregular movement of the turbulent flow particles to form a small-range turbulent flow state; the water flow pressurized into the filter shell penetrates through the ceramic filter column, and the surface of the ceramic filter column is in a continuous turbulent flow state, so that the rapid accumulation of pollutants caused by uniform water flow is avoided; the turbulent particles continuously move irregularly under the drive of water flow, and the turbulent particles randomly collide and rub the surface of the ceramic filter column to scrub a pollutant deposition layer on the outer surface of the ceramic filter column; water flow enters a cylindrical hole in the ceramic filter column through the ceramic filter column, reducing agent particles and activated carbon particles are filled in the cylindrical hole in the ceramic filter column, and the reducing agent particles and the activated carbon particles are used for adsorbing and reducing the purified water passing through the ceramic filter column to remove residual chlorine in the purified water; purified water flows upwards along with the water pressure, and after passing through the PP filter cotton and the upper stainless steel filter screen, the purified water flows out through a tap water pipeline connected with the water outlet of the seal head.
In order to realize the embodiment, the ceramic filter column adopts the inorganic ceramic membrane filter element, the maximum filter precision can reach 0.1 micron, the filter precision is higher than the filter precision of 50 microns of the conventional stainless steel net, and the filter effect on the particles in the pipeline tap water is better than that of the stainless steel net.
In order to realize the embodiment, the turbulent flow particles are filled in the filter shell, the turbulent flow particles are made of light porous ceramic materials, the specific gravity of the light porous ceramic materials is 1.2-1.4g/cm3, the specific gravity of the light porous ceramic materials is slightly larger than that of water, the light porous ceramic materials can randomly move along with water flow, and the surface of the ceramic filter column is scrubbed while the flow direction of the water flow is changed.
In order to realize the embodiment, the turbulent flow particles with the surface hardness lower than that of the ceramic membrane filter column are filled in the filter, so that the abrasion degree of the surface of the ceramic filter element is reduced, the influence on the filtering precision of the ceramic membrane is reduced, and a pollution layer on the surface of the ceramic membrane filter element can be effectively scrubbed.
In order to realize the embodiment, the filter element is filled in the filter shell, the reducing agent particles and the activated carbon particles are filled in the ceramic filter column, the effluent filtered by the ceramic filter column is treated, and the disinfectant added in the water is adsorbed and reduced, so that the influence of the disinfectant in the water on the skin surface of a human body is reduced, and the ceramic filter column is suitable for water treatment in the aspects of shower, skin beauty and the like.
In order to realize the embodiment, the filter element is filled in the filter shell, the ceramic filter column is an inorganic ceramic membrane filter element, and the inorganic ceramic membrane filter element has good temperature resistance and is suitable for water filtration of the water heater.
In order to realize the embodiment, the water inlet of the filter is provided with the sealing gasket, the center of the sealing gasket is provided with the lower stainless steel filter screen, the filtering precision of the lower stainless steel filter screen is 60 meshes, turbulent flow particles can be isolated, meanwhile, large particles such as rust, silt and the like in a tap water pipeline are intercepted, the inflow water is precut, and the turbulence degree of the water flow is increased.
Description of the filter cartridge replacement embodiment:
the utility model relates to a filter is connected with the filter head by filter bottom sealing and is constituteed, and the inside filtration filter core and the turbulent flow granule of packing of filter housing constitute. Because of long-term use, the turbulent flow particles move randomly and rub against the ceramic filter column, the inner wall of the filter shell and the inner wall of the filter shell, so that the particles are abraded, the turbulent flow particles have the turbulence stirring effect on water flow and the scrubbing strength on the surface pollution layer of the ceramic filter column is reduced, the pollution layer is accumulated, the filtering flux of the filtering filter element is reduced, and the filtering filter element and the turbulent flow particles are required to be replaced.
In order to realize the embodiment of replacing the filter element, a water inlet valve connected with a water inlet pipe is closed, a nut connected with a water outlet of the seal head is unscrewed, the filter is taken down, the filter bottom seal and the filter seal head are separated anticlockwise, the filter seal head is taken out together with the filter element inserted in the filter seal head, the filter element is pulled out, and a new filter element is inserted into a bottom connector of the seal head; pouring out the residual turbulent particles in the filter shell, and adding new turbulent particles; inserting the filter end socket and the filter element into the filter shell, and fastening the end socket bottom connector with the threaded belt; and (4) reconnecting the nut connected with the water outlet of the seal head, opening the water inlet valve connected with the water inlet pipe, and restarting to purify water.
Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are merely representative examples of the present invention. Obviously, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and many modifications are possible. Any simple modification, equivalent change and modification made to the above embodiments according to the technical spirit of the present invention should be considered as belonging to the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. The household self-turbulent water purifier comprises a filter bottom seal, a filter end seal and a filtering core, and is characterized in that the filter bottom seal comprises a filter shell and a filter water inlet nut, the inner side of the upper end of the filter shell is provided with a threaded belt, the upper side of the threaded belt is provided with a sealing groove, the upper side inside the filter water inlet nut is provided with a filter water inlet, a sealing gasket is arranged inside the filter water inlet nut and on the lower side of the filter water inlet, the filter water inlet nut is arranged at the lower end of the filter shell, the filter water inlet is communicated with the inside of the filter shell, the inner wall of the filter is polished, the filtering core is arranged inside the filter shell and comprises a filter core end seal and a ceramic filter column, the lower side of the filter core end seal is provided with an, the center of the upper end of the filter element end enclosure is provided with a round hole, the upper side of the concave opening is provided with PP filter cotton, the upper side of the PP filter cotton is provided with an upper stainless steel filter screen, the lower end of the filter element end enclosure is provided with a lower connecting port, the outer side of the upper end part of the filter element end enclosure is provided with an upper connecting port, the side surface of the upper connecting port is provided with a first sealing ring, the lower end of the ceramic filter column is a round head plug, the upper end of the ceramic filter column is a cylindrical hole, the cylindrical hole is filled with a plurality of reducing agent particles and a plurality of activated carbon particles, the upper end of the ceramic filter column is arranged in the lower connecting port and is bonded with the filter element end enclosure, the filter end enclosure comprises an end enclosure bottom interface, a second sealing ring, an end enclosure edge and an end enclosure water outlet, the center of the end enclosure eaves edge is provided, communicating with each other between head delivery port and the tubaeform through-hole, the downside on head eaves limit is located to the interface at the bottom of the head, the second sealing washer is located between the downside on head eaves limit and the outside of interface at the bottom of the head, be equipped with end interface external screw thread on the outer lane of interface at the bottom of the head, the medial surface of interface is level and smooth at the bottom of the head, the upper end of filter shell is located to the filter head, the filter head is connected with filter shell through end interface external screw thread and threaded band threaded connection, the seal groove of impressing when interface and threaded band fasten at the bottom of the head is sealed to the second sealing washer, the inside of interface is gone into to the bottom of the head is inserted to the upper end of filter core head, go up the inboard of interface and the interface at the bottom of.
2. The household self-turbulent water purifier as claimed in claim 1, wherein a U-shaped cavity is disposed between the filter housing and the ceramic filter column, the U-shaped cavity is filled with a plurality of turbulent particles, the turbulent particles are made of lightweight porous ceramic material, the particle size of the turbulent particles is 3mm-5mm, and the specific gravity of the turbulent particles is 1.2-1.4g/cm3And the surface hardness of the turbulent flow particles is lower than that of the ceramic filter column.
3. The household self-turbulent water purifier as recited in claim 1, wherein the ceramic filter column is an inorganic ceramic membrane filter element, and the maximum filtration precision is 0.1 micron.
4. The household self-turbulent water purifier as recited in claim 1, wherein a lower stainless steel filter screen is disposed at the center of the sealing pad, and the filtering precision of the lower stainless steel filter screen is 60 meshes.
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