TWI666045B - Expandable module water filtering apparatus and positioning plates thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An expandable modular water filtering device and a positioning plate thereof are used to solve the problem of poor expansion of the conventional water filtering device. The expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention includes a plurality of positioning plates and a plurality of filter elements, and the periphery of each positioning plate is provided with at least a first overlapping portion and at least a second overlapping portion that are matched, so that The first overlapped portion of each of the positioning plates can be overlapped and combined with the second overlapped portion of an adjacent positioning plate. Each of the positioning plates is provided with a water inlet channel and a drainage channel, and the plurality of filter elements are respectively combined with each other. For each of the plurality of positioning disks, each of the filter elements has a water inlet connected to a water inlet channel of the positioning disk, and each of the filter cores has a water outlet connected to a drainage channel of the positioning disk.

Description

Expandable modular water filtering device and positioning plate thereof

The invention relates to a water filtering device and its components, and in particular to an expandable modular water filtering device and a positioning plate thereof that can easily increase the number of filter elements connected in series.

Please refer to FIG. 1, which is a conventional water filtering device 9. The conventional water filtering device 9 has a plurality of filter bottles 91, and a combination block 911 is convexly arranged on the outer peripheral side of each of the filter bottles 91. 911 extends from the top to the end of the filter bottle 91, and a combination piece 912 is protruded outwardly at an angle between the two sides of the combination block 911 and the outer peripheral side of the filter bottle 91, and one of the combination pieces 912 is farther away from the filter bottle 91 A positioning block 913 is provided at the outer peripheral side, and another positioning block 913 is provided at the other combination sheet 912 near the outer peripheral side of the filter bottle 91. According to this, any two filter bottles 91 can be assembled into a filter group S; when they are connected, one of the filter bottles 91 needs to be inverted, so that the combination block 911 of the two filter bottles 91 abuts against each other, and the opposite two combination pieces 912 The positioning blocks 913 can be staggered and aligned for a peg 92 to pass through the combination, so that the filtering group S can communicate with the interior of the two filter bottles 91 through the two combination blocks 911 for filtering water. When two filtering groups S are to be connected together, another connection piece 93 needs to be superposed on the several combination pieces 912 abutting each other, and then several connection elements 94 are used to combine the connection piece 93 with the connection piece 93. Several combination pieces 912. An embodiment similar to the conventional water filtering device 9 has been disclosed in the patent case of the “Recombination Structure of Filter Bottles” of the Republic of China Publication No. M444211.

However, according to the foregoing structure, the structure of the combination block 911, the combination piece 912, and the positioning block 913 on each of the filter bottles 91 can only be used to connect with another filter bottle 91 to form a pass together. The filter group S, and the assembly between any two filter groups S need to be additionally performed through a connecting piece 93 and a plurality of screwing elements 94, so the expansion requires a large number of components and the assembly process is tedious and time-consuming. Furthermore, the structure of the filter bottle 91 of the conventional water filtering device 9 can only directly connect two filter bottles 91 of the same filter group S, and an external pipeline needs to be additionally connected between different filter groups S to communicate with each other. Therefore, when the conventional water filtering device 9 is expanded, it is not only necessary to increase the installation and assembly costs of the external pipeline, but also to consider the installation space required for the external pipeline, etc., resulting in poor assembly convenience.

In view of this, the conventional water filtration device still needs to be improved.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an expandable modular water filtering device, the components required for expansion are quite simple, which can reduce the difficulty of assembly and improve the efficiency of assembly.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an expandable modular water filtering device and a positioning plate thereof. The positioning plate can both function as a positioning filter element and communicate with a water channel, thereby saving a lot of costs for setting and assembling external pipelines and space.

The following directional or similar terms of the present invention, such as "front", "rear", "up (top)", "down (bottom)", "inside", "outside", "side", etc. With reference to the directions of the accompanying drawings, each directivity or its approximate terms are only used to assist in explaining and understanding the embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention.

The expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention includes: a plurality of positioning disks, each of which has at least one first overlapped portion and at least one second overlapped portion on its periphery, the first overlapped portion It is matched with the second overlapping portion, so that the first overlapping portion of each positioning plate can overlap with the second overlapping portion of the adjacent positioning plate, and a water inlet channel and A drainage channel, the water inlet channel having a water inlet communicating with the outside, the drainage channel having a water outlet communicating with the outside; and a plurality of filter elements, the plurality of filter elements are respectively combined with the plurality of positioning disks, and each of the filter elements has a water inlet And a water outlet, the water inlet is in communication with the water inlet channel of the positioning plate, and the water outlet is in communication with the drainage channel of the positioning plate.

According to this, the expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention can select and set a corresponding number of positioning disks according to the number of filter elements to be set. , It can have the effect of positioning the filter element and connecting the waterway. Therefore, in the expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention, the components required for expansion are quite streamlined, which can reduce the difficulty of assembly and improve the efficiency of assembly, and the positioning plate can be used to communicate with the water path, which can save many settings and Cost and space for assembling external piping.

The ring edge of the positioning plate is a regular polygon, and the first overlapping portion or the second overlapping portion is provided on each side of the positioning plate. In this way, the structure of the positioning plate can be simplified, and the effect of improving the convenience of overlapping and combining several positioning plates can be improved.

The ring edge of the positioning plate is a regular polygon. Two opposite sides of the positioning plate are provided with the aforementioned first overlapping portion and aforesaid second overlapping portion, and the other two opposite sides of the positioning plate are respectively provided with corresponding phases. A third overlapping portion and a fourth overlapping portion, and the shapes of the third overlapping portion and the fourth overlapping portion are different from the shapes of the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion, So that the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion do not match the third overlapping portion and the fourth overlapping portion. In this way, the user can quickly distinguish the assembly direction and ensure that it will not be wrongly installed, which has the effect of improving assembly convenience and the like.

Wherein, the first overlapped portion and the second overlapped portion are corresponding two lugs and two grooves, respectively, and after the two lugs are overlapped with the corresponding two grooves, they are respectively fixed by a lock. Components penetrate the lock. In this way, it has the effects of improving the bonding stability between two adjacent positioning disks.

Wherein, the water inlet and the water outlet of each positioning plate are respectively disposed between the two lugs or the two grooves. In this way, the overlapping stability between two adjacent positioning plates can be improved, and the water inlet and the water outlet can be accurately opposed, which has the effects of improving assembly convenience and the like.

Wherein, a positioning sleeve is provided at the bottom of each of the positioning discs, and the positioning sleeve is provided with a turn-locking portion for a turn-locking combination of the filter element, so that the water inlet of the filter element is connected to the water-intake channel of the positioning disc And the water outlet of the filter element is in communication with the drainage channel of the positioning plate. in this way, With the effect of improving assembly convenience.

In addition, the expandable modular water filtering device may further include at least one water plug tube having a first end and a second end, the first end is in communication with the second end, and the water The plug pipe is inserted into the water inlet of one of the aforementioned positioning plates from the first end, and the drain hole of the adjacent positioning plate is inserted from the second end. In this way, the water plug pipe can improve the smoothness of the water liquid transported between two adjacent positioning plates, and ensure that the water liquid cannot easily leak out from the opposite water inlet and the water outlet.

The present invention further provides a positioning plate of an expandable modular water filtering device. The circumferential edge of the positioning plate is provided with at least a first overlapping portion and at least a second overlapping portion. The first overlapping portion and the first overlapping portion The two overlapping parts are matched. The positioning plate is provided with a water inlet channel and a drainage channel inside, the water inlet channel has a water inlet connected to the outside, and the drainage channel has a drain outlet connected to the outside.

〔this invention〕

1‧‧‧Positioning plate

11‧‧‧The first overlap

12‧‧‧Second Overlap

13‧‧‧ water inlet channel

131‧‧‧ water inlet

14‧‧‧ drainage channel

141‧‧‧drain

15‧‧‧The third overlap

16‧‧‧Fourth overlap

17‧‧‧ positioning sleeve

171‧‧‧Swivel button

2‧‧‧ filter

21‧‧‧ water inlet

22‧‧‧ Outlet

23‧‧‧Swivel button

3‧‧‧ water plug pipe

31‧‧‧ the first end

32‧‧‧ the second end

L‧‧‧Locking element

P‧‧‧External pipe

〔Usually〕

9‧‧‧ Water Filter

91‧‧‧ filter bottle

911‧‧‧combination block

912‧‧‧ Combination

913‧‧‧ Positioning block

92‧‧‧ bolt

93‧‧‧ Connection

94‧‧‧Screw element

S‧‧‧Filter Set

Figure 1: Schematic diagram of a conventional water filtration device.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a three-dimensional exploded structure of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural sectional view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic three-dimensional exploded structure diagram of a positioning plate and a filter element according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of four positioning disks connected in series in a linear form according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of four positioning disks connected in series in a side-by-side configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of five positioning disks connected in series in a side-by-side configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to make the above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, the following describes the preferred embodiments of the present invention and the accompanying drawings in detail, as follows: Please refer to FIG. A preferred embodiment of the expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention. The expandable modular water filtering device generally includes a plurality of positioning disks 1 and a plurality of filter elements 2. The plurality of filter elements 2 are respectively assembled in the number. Person positioning disk 1.

The expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention can select and set a corresponding number of positioning discs 1 according to the number of filter elements 2 to be set, so that each filter element 2 can be correspondingly combined to one positioning disc 1, and the number of positioning The trays 1 can be overlapped and combined with each other, so as to achieve the effect of arbitrarily expanding the expandable modular water filtering device according to use requirements.

In detail, please refer to FIGS. 2 and 3. At least one first overlapping portion 11 and at least one second overlapping portion 12 are provided on a peripheral edge of each of the positioning disks 1. The two overlapping portions 12 are matched so that the first overlapping portion 11 of each positioning plate 1 and the second overlapping portion 12 of the adjacent positioning plate 1 are overlapped and combined with each other, and the second overlapping of the positioning plate 1 The portion 12 can also be overlapped and connected with the first overlapping portion 11 of another adjacent positioning plate 1, so that it is convenient to overlap a plurality of positioning plates 1 into a group. Each of the positioning disks 1 is provided with a water inlet channel 13 and a drainage channel 14. The water inlet channel 13 has a water inlet 131 to communicate with the outside, and the drainage channel 14 has a water outlet 141 to communicate with the outside. Two adjacent positioning plates 1 After the first overlapping portion 11 and the second overlapping portion 12 are overlapped and combined with each other, the water inlet 131 of one of the positioning plates 1 can be opposed to the drain opening 141 of the other positioning plate 1.

Among them, in order to simplify the structure of the positioning plate 1, it is preferable that the peripheral edge of the positioning plate 1 be a regular polygon, and the first overlapping portion 11 or the second overlapping portion is provided on each side of the regular polygon. 12. The periphery of each of the positioning plates 1 can be easily overlapped with another positioning plate 1 to improve the convenience of overlapping and combining the plurality of positioning plates 1. For example, without limitation, the first overlapping portion 11 may be, for example, two lugs, and the second overlapping portion 12 is corresponding to two grooves (or oppositely disposed), and the two lugs are overlapped to the corresponding one. After the two grooves, a locking element L can be penetrated and locked to improve the bonding stability between the two adjacent positioning disks 1. In addition, the water inlet 131 is preferably provided between the two grooves (or the two lugs), and the water outlet 141 is preferably provided between the two lugs (or the two grooves) to raise the two The stability of the overlap between adjacent positioning plates 1 ensures that the water inlet 131 and the water outlet 141 are accurately opposite to each other.

Alternatively, one of the two opposite sides of the positioning plate 1 may be provided with one of the foregoing first overlapping portion 11 and one of the foregoing second overlapping portion 12, and the other two opposite sides of the positioning plate 1 may be divided. A third overlapping portion 15 and a fourth overlapping portion 16 are not provided to match, and the shape of the third overlapping portion 15 and the fourth overlapping portion 16 is the same as that of the first overlapping portion 11 and the first overlapping portion. The shapes of the two overlapping portions 12 are different. According to this, the user can quickly distinguish the assembly direction of each positioning plate 1 and ensure that it is not wrongly installed, so as to effectively avoid the situation that the adjacent water inlet 131 and the drain outlet 141 cannot be opposite when the wrong direction is rotated during assembly, which helps to improve Assembly convenience.

Please refer to FIGS. 3 and 4, the plurality of filter elements 2 are respectively coupled to the plurality of positioning plates 1, and each of the filter elements 2 has a water inlet 21 and a water outlet 22, and the water inlet 21 is in communication with the water inlet channel 13. The water outlet 22 is in communication with the drainage channel 14. In this embodiment, each of the filter cores 2 has its water inlet 21 and water outlet 22 at the top, and a top portion of each of the filter cores 2 is provided with a screwing portion 23; the bottom of each of the positioning disks 1 can be convexly provided. A positioning sleeve 17 is provided with a turning portion 171. When assembling, the top of the filter element 2 can be inserted into the positioning sleeve 17 and the filter element 2 can be rotated so that the turn-locking portion 23 of the filter element 2 can be screwed into the turn-locking portion 171 of the positioning sleeve 17 to make The water inlet 21 of the filter element 2 is in communication with the water inlet channel 13 of the positioning disc 1, and the water outlet 22 of the filter element 2 is in communication with the drainage channel 14 of the positioning disc 1.

In addition, the expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention is preferably further provided with at least one water plug pipe 3 having a first end 31 and a second end 32. The first end 31 and the The second end 32 communicates with the water plug pipe 3 from the first end 31 into the drainage port 141 of one of the aforementioned positioning discs 1 and the second end 32 into the water inlet 131 of an adjacent positioning disc 1, The water plug pipe 3 is used to improve the smoothness of the water liquid transported between two adjacent positioning plates 1, and to ensure that the water liquid is not easy to leak out between the opposite water inlet 131 and the water outlet 141.

Referring to FIG. 3, according to the foregoing structure, the positioning plate 1 of the present invention can be combined with a filter element 2 and the interior of the filter element 2 is communicated with the water inlet channel 13 and the drainage channel 14 of the positioning plate 1 respectively; Moreover, each of the positioning disks 1 can also be directly overlapped and combined with each other, so as to achieve the effect of positioning a plurality of filter elements 2 to communicate with the water channel at the same time. Therefore, in the expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention, the components required for expansion are quite streamlined, which can reduce the difficulty of assembly and improve the efficiency of assembly, and can be borrowed. By using the positioning disc to communicate with the waterway, many costs and space for setting and assembling external pipelines can be saved.

The following discloses several different assembly types of the expandable modular water filtration device of the present invention: when three or more filter elements 2 are to be connected in series (please refer to Fig. 2 for cooperation), as shown in Fig. 5, The plurality of positioning plates 1 are connected in series in a straight line; or as shown in FIG. 6, the plurality of positioning plates 1 are connected in series side by side, and then the outermost two side-by-side positioning plates 1 are connected by an external pipe P. Water inlet 131 and drain 141. In addition, the expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention is not limited to only an even number of filter cores 2, as shown in FIG. 7, even if the two outermost positioning disks 1 are not aligned, an external pipeline can be used. P is connected. Therefore, the expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention can freely adjust the series connection type of the plurality of filter elements 2 according to the installation space requirements, and has a wide range of applicability and excellent practicability.

In summary, according to the expandable modular water filtering device and the positioning plate of the present invention, a corresponding number of positioning plates can be selected and set according to the number of required filter elements, and several positioning plates are overlapped and combined with each other. And for each filter element to be assembled, it can have the effect of positioning the filter element and communicating with the waterway. Therefore, in the expandable modular water filtering device of the present invention, the components required for expansion are quite streamlined, which can reduce the difficulty of assembly and improve the efficiency of assembly, and the positioning plate can be used to communicate with the water path, which can save many settings and Cost and space for assembling external piping.

Although the present invention has been disclosed using the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Anyone skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications to the above embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The technical scope protected by the invention, so the scope of protection of the present invention shall be determined by the scope of the appended patent application.

Claims (10)

An expandable modular water filtering device includes: a plurality of positioning disks, each of which has at least one first overlapped portion and at least one second overlapped portion on its periphery, the first overlapped portion and the The second overlapping portions are matched so that the first overlapping portion of each positioning plate can overlap with the second overlapping portion of an adjacent positioning plate, and a water inlet channel and a drainage are provided inside each positioning plate. Channel, the water inlet channel has a water inlet connected to the outside, and the drainage channel has a water outlet connected to the outside; and a plurality of filter elements, the plurality of filter elements are respectively coupled to the plurality of positioning disks, and each of the filter elements has a water inlet and a A water outlet, the water inlet is in communication with the water inlet channel of the positioning plate, and the water outlet is in communication with the drainage channel of the positioning plate. The expandable modular water filtering device according to item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the peripheral edge of the positioning plate is a regular polygon, and the first overlapping portion or the second edge portion is provided on each side of the positioning plate. Overlap. According to the expandable modular water filtering device described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the peripheral edge of the positioning plate is a regular polygon, and two opposite sides of the positioning plate are provided with the aforementioned first overlapping portion and a In the aforementioned second overlapping portion, a pair of third overlapping portions and a fourth overlapping portion are respectively provided on the other two pairs of sides of the positioning disk, and the third overlapping portion and the fourth overlapping portion are matched with each other. The shape is different from that of the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion, so that the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion are not in phase with the third overlapping portion and the fourth overlapping portion. match. According to the expandable modular water filtering device described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion are corresponding two lugs and two grooves, respectively, the two convex portions After the ears are overlapped with the corresponding two grooves, they are locked by a locking element. The expandable modular water filtering device described in item 4 of the scope of patent application, wherein the water inlet and drain of each positioning plate are respectively disposed between the two lugs or the two grooves. The expandable modular water filtering device according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the bottom of each of the positioning disks is provided with a positioning sleeve, and the positioning sleeve is provided with a screwing portion for a screwing portion of the filter element. The screw connection is used to make the water inlet of the filter element communicate with the water inlet channel of the positioning disc, and the water outlet of the filter element communicate with the drainage channel of the positioning disc. The expandable modular water filtering device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising at least one water plug tube having a first end and a second end. One end is in communication with the second end, and the water plug pipe is inserted into the water inlet of one of the positioning disks from the first end, and the water outlet of the adjacent positioning disk is inserted from the second end. A positioning plate of an expandable modular water filtering device, at least one first overlapped portion and at least one second overlapped portion are provided on the periphery of the positioning disk, the first overlapped portion and the second overlapped portion Matchingly, the inside of the positioning plate is provided with a water inlet channel and a drainage channel, the water inlet channel has a water inlet connected to the outside, and the drainage channel has a drain outlet connected to the outside. The positioning plate of the expandable modular water filtering device according to item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein the ring edge of the positioning plate is a regular polygon, and two opposite sides of the positioning plate are provided with the aforementioned first overlap A third overlapping portion and a fourth overlapping portion are respectively provided on the other two pairs of edges of the positioning plate, and the third overlapping portion and the fourth overlapping portion are respectively matched with each other. The shape of the joining portion is different from that of the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion, so that the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion are not connected to the third overlapping portion and the fourth overlapping portion. The joints match. According to the positioning plate of the expandable modular water filtering device described in item 8 of the scope of the patent application, wherein a bottom of the positioning plate is provided with a positioning sleeve, and the positioning sleeve is provided with a screwing portion.