WO1993007944A2 - Filtering element and machine for its manufacture - Google Patents
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- WO1993007944A2 WO1993007944A2 PCT/GB1992/001967 GB9201967W WO9307944A2 WO 1993007944 A2 WO1993007944 A2 WO 1993007944A2 GB 9201967 W GB9201967 W GB 9201967W WO 9307944 A2 WO9307944 A2 WO 9307944A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
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- B01D29/00—Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor
- B01D29/11—Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor with bag, cage, hose, tube, sleeve or like filtering elements
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- B01D29/00—Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor
- B01D29/11—Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor with bag, cage, hose, tube, sleeve or like filtering elements
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- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
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- B01D29/62—Regenerating the filter material in the filter
- B01D29/66—Regenerating the filter material in the filter by flushing, e.g. counter-current air-bumps
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
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- B01D29/00—Filters with filtering elements stationary during filtration, e.g. pressure or suction filters, not covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D27/00; Filtering elements therefor
- B01D29/62—Regenerating the filter material in the filter
- B01D29/70—Regenerating the filter material in the filter by forces created by movement of the filter element
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- This invention relates to a filtering element for an apparatus used to filter water or other fluids.
- This invention also relates to a machine for forming helical springs, which may be used as the filtering element.
- a known type of filtration apparatus comprises a flow duct housing a filter element consisting of a wire wound into a helical coil in the form of a compression spring: the filter element is oriented with its axis vertical and its top end fixed around a flow outlet from the duct. The bottom end of the filter element is closed by a plate, which, in use of the apparatus, is urged upwards to hold the adjacent turns of the coil construction in contact with each other. Water or other fluid to be filtered is passed into the duct through its lower end and passes between the adjacent coil turns of the filter element, from the space surrounding the coil to the space within the coil, and then out through the top end of the filter element.
- the filtrate is retained on the coils of the filter element, but is removed periodically by backwashing.
- the support at the bottom end of the filter element is relaxed to allow the element to extend under its own weight, then a backwash flow is introduced through the outlet at the top of the duct, to pass between the coils of the filter element and wash away the retained filtrate.
- the separation between its adjacent turns progressively reduces from the top to the bottom of the element: as a result the effectiveness of the backwashing process varies along the length of the element.
- a filter element which comprises a wire or other elongate element wound into a helical coil in the form of a tension spring with adjacent turns in contact with each other when the coil is suspended freely from one of its ends.
- the filter element is suspended from its top end without any support for its bottom end, yet the adjacent coils remain in contact or contiguous with each other to provide for filtering.
- the bottom end of the filter element coil is closed: during backwash, the backwash flow passing down within the coil impinges on the bottom end closure with the effect of extending the coil and the backwash passes radially outwards between the adjacent turns of the coil to remove the filtrate retained on the filter element.
- a resonant oscillation of the coil is set up, with adjacent turns impacting against each other to enhance removal of the filtrate.
- the stiffness or spring rate of the wire varies progressively along the length of the helical coil, being stiffer towards the one end (i.e. the end from which the coil is suspended when in use) .
- This variation ensures that each turn of the coil is held up against the next turn above with a substantially uniform contact pressure, regardless of the number of turns below it (and therefore the weight pulling that turn downwards) .
- the separation between adjacent turns of the coil is substantially uniform from the top to the bottom of the coil.
- the wire (or other elongate element) from which the coil is wound is preferably rectangular in section and it is wound on edge (i.e. with its opposite edges facing radially inwards and radially outwards) .
- one side of the wire (or other elongate element) is formed with a series of spaced projections.
- the wire has a flat side and an opposite side formed with an apex along its length: the flat side may be grooved or knurled or provided with a series of spaced projections to rest against the apex of the adjacent turn.
- the coil may be wound from a metal (e.g. stainless steel) wire or from a plastics element of suitable springiness.
- a metal e.g. stainless steel
- plastics element of suitable springiness e.g., from a plastics element of suitable springiness.
- a machine for forming a helical spring comprising a mandrel, a guide for guiding wire or other elongate element tangentially to the mandrel, drive means upstream of the mandrel for advancing the wire to the mandrel, and a forming means which forms the wire around the mandrel as the wire is advanced.
- the forming means engages the advancing wire over an arc of approximately 90° following the tangential point of contact of the wire with the mandrel.
- the forming means comprises two rollers, one just downstream of the tangential point of contact of the wire with the mandrel, and the other at a position 90° from that point.
- a third roller is included in the wire guide, just prior to the tangential point of contact of the wire with the mandrel, to take the reaction force of the wire as it is bent by the forming means.
- the forming means deflects the wire out of the vertical plane in which it lies as it passes through the wire guide (i.e. the plane to which the axis of the mandrel is perpendicular) .
- the forming means is adjustable to adjust the angle of this deflection: the setting of this angular deflection determines the characteristics of the spring.
- means are provided so that the adjustment can be made whilst the machine is running: in this way a spring can be made which varies in stiffness or spring rate along its length.
- the spring may be a compression spring, in which its adjacent turns are separated by gaps, or a tension spring, in which its adjacent turns are urged into contact with each other.
- the machine may form a spring from fully annealed round-section wire (e.g. stainless steel) without any subsequent heat treatment.
- the machine may form a spring from an elongate element or filament of plastics material.
- the round-section wire may be converted to a rectangular or other section by passing through a co-operating pair of profile rollers on its way to the wire guide: preferably these profile rollers are driven and form the drive means which advances the wire through the wire guide and to the mandrel.
- the profile rollers impart a degree of work hardening to the wire.
- a degree of work hardening may be imparted by applying a brake to the wire upstream of the profile rollers or other drive means, or by passing the wire through a die (to reduce its diameter) upstream of the profile rollers or other drive means.
- FIGURE 1 is a schematic section through a filtration apparatus which includes a filtering element in accordance with this invention, the filtering element being shown at rest;
- FIGURE 2 is a similar section through the filtration apparatus, showing the filtering element extended during backwash;
- FIGURE 3 is an enlarged view of part of one form of wire from which the filtering element may be wound;
- FIGURE 4 is an enlarged section through two adjacent turns of a filtering element coil wound from another form of wire.
- FIGURE 5 is an enlarged.section through two adjacent turns of a filtering element coil would from a further form of wire;
- FIGURE 6 is a schematic view of a pair of driven profile rollers of a spring forming machine in accordance with this invention.
- FIGURE 7 is a schematic front view of the forming head of the machine.
- FIGURE 8 is a section on the line III - III of- Figure 7.
- a filtration apparatus which comprises a duct 10 which is closed at its top and bottom but has an outlet 12 in its top and an inlet 14 in its bottom.
- a filter element 20 of the apparatus comprises a wire (or other elongate element of appropriate springiness) wound into a helical coil in the form of a tension spring: the filter element 20 is suspended by one of its ends from the closed top of the duct 10, being attached to the top around the outlet 12, to adopt a vertical orientation.
- the filter element 20 is in the form of a tension spring: every pair of adjacent turns are in contact with each other when the coil is suspended freely from its one end as shown, i.e. without support for its bottom end.
- the stiffness or spring rate of the wire varies progressively along the length of the coil, the stiffness being greater towards the top end. This variation ensures that each turn of the coil is held up against the next turn above with a contact pressure which is substantially uniform from one end of the coil to the other: thus the stiffness of the wire towards the top end of the coil is greater, to maintain this uniform contact pressure despite the greater number of turns below (and therefore the weight pulling downwards on the respective turn) .
- the bottom of the coil 20 is closed by a disc 22 attached to it, forming a counterbalance weight which therefore determines the contact pressure between adjacent turns of the coil 20: this counterbalance weight may be sufficient to reduce the contact pressure between adjacent turns of the coil to substantially zero in the at rest condition, although the adjacent turns still remain in contact.
- water or other fluid to be filtered is passed along an inlet pipe 16 and a diverter valve 18 into the duct 10 through its inlet 14.
- the fluid then passes between adjacent turns of the coil 20, into the space within the filter element, and finally out of the apparatus through the outlet 12.
- Filtrate is retained on the turns of the filter element: a layer of filtrate builds up on the filter element between the adjacent turns, and causes an extension of the coil 20.
- Filtrate built up on the filter element is removed periodically by backwashing.
- a backwash flow of water or other fluid is passed through the outlet 12 of the apparatus and into the space within the filter element coil 20: this backwash flow impinges on the closure disc 22 at the bottom of the coil 20, with the effect of extending the coil downwards as shown in Figure 2.
- the backwash flow passes radially outwards between the adjacent turns of the coil to remove the filtrate from the coil, and passes out of the apparatus through the inlet 14 and a waste pipe 19 via the diverter valve 18.
- the backwash flow sets up a resonant oscillation of the coil, with a travelling wave moving in alternate directions along the coil and being reflected at the opposite ends, causing the adjacent turns to impact against each other. The filtrate is thus removed very effectively from the coil 20.
- the coil 20 is wound from a wire (or other elongate element) of rectangular cross-section, for example having a width 3 times its thickness, the wire being wound on its edge.
- One of the major surfaces of the wire is formed with a series of spaced projections spaced along its length, e.g. transverse ribs 24 as shown in Figure 3.
- the wire has one flat major surface 26 and its other side is formed with a longitudinal apex 28 and surfaces inclining from this apex to its opposite edges: the flat surface 26 may be formed with a series of spaced projections along its length, to contact the apex of the adjacent turn, or the flat surface 26 may be transversely grooved or knurled.
- the wire has one flat major surface 30 and its other side comprises a domed longitudinal apex 32 joined by a narrow flat margin 33 to one edge 34 and joined by a narrow flat margin 35 and an inclined surface 36 to the opposite edge 37: this wire is wound with the wider edge 34 radially inwards.
- FIG. 6 to 8 of the drawings there is shown a machine which forms a spring, and for example may form the filter element of Figures 1 and 2.
- the machines forms a spring from fully-annealed round-section wire W in one pass of the wire through the machine, and without the need for any subsequent heat treatment or other processing.
- the machine comprises a pair of driven profile rollers 40,42 through which the wire W passes, the wire being converted to a rectangular (or other desired) section.
- the profiled wire is then fed into a linear guide 44 which is mounted tangentially to a disc ⁇ shaped mandrel 46 1 which is mounted for free rotation about its axis.
- the rectangular-section wire W is to be wound on its edge, so its major surfaces lie parallel to a vertical plane (i.e. the plane to which the mandrel axis is perpendicular) and one of its edges comes into contact with the peripheral surface of the mandrel in tangential manner at a point P.
- the machine further comprises a forming head 50 5 carrying two freely-rotatable rollers 52, 54, for bending or curving the wire to the radius of the mandrel 46.
- Each roller 52, 54 defines a gap, between its periphery and the periphery of the mandrel 46, equal to or slightly greater than the width of the wire between its opposite edges.
- Roller 52 is
- roller 54 is positioned with its axis on a radial line approximately 90° from the radius on which point P lies.
- the wire guide 44 includes a roller 56 to bear
- the forming head 50 also includes a channel-shape section 58 through which the wire passes.
- This section 58 extends as shown in Figure 7, over an arc of approximately 30 to 45° from a point just downstream of the tangential contact
- the channel section 58 can be displaced in either direction out of the vertical plane in which the wire lies in passing through the wire guide. This can be achieved by pivoting the forming head 50 about an axis
- the channel section 58 therefore has the effect of deflecting the wire out of its plane as it emerges from the wire guide 44 and is bent towards an arcuate form.
- the amount and sense of deflection is 5 determined by the position of the forming head 50 about its axis A: the position may be preset, or it may be continuously adjustable during the formation of a spring, for example under the control of a profiled cam. In this manner a spring may be formed with a stiffness or spring rate with varies as required along its length.
- the wire W is pushed along the wire guide 44 by the drive action of the profile rollers 40, 42, and is bent to arcuate form as it is pushed through the forming head 50.
- successive turns of a helical coil structure are formed, this helical coil growing and turning around its axis (i.e. the axis of the mandrel) until the profile rollers are stopped or the end of the wire is reached.
- the machine which has been described forms a spring from fully-annealed round-section wire (e.g. stainless steel) without any subsequent heat treatment.
- the machine will form a spring with a width-to-thickness ratio of the profiled wire of e.g. 3 to 1, which is much greater than hitherto conventional machines.
- the machine may be used to form a helical coil spring filter element for the apparatus of Figures 1 and 2.
- the profile rollers may form the wire to any of the forms shown in Figures 3 to 5, for example.
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GB919122702A GB9122702D0 (en) | 1991-10-24 | 1991-10-24 | Filtering element |
GB919122701A GB9122701D0 (en) | 1991-10-24 | 1991-10-24 | Spring forming machine |
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GB9122701.7 | 1991-10-24 |
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