WO1987000766A1 - Filtering system for paper handling machines - Google Patents
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- WO1987000766A1 WO1987000766A1 PCT/US1986/001120 US8601120W WO8700766A1 WO 1987000766 A1 WO1987000766 A1 WO 1987000766A1 US 8601120 W US8601120 W US 8601120W WO 8700766 A1 WO8700766 A1 WO 8700766A1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47L5/00—Structural features of suction cleaners
- A47L5/12—Structural features of suction cleaners with power-driven air-pumps or air-compressors, e.g. driven by motor vehicle engine vacuum
- A47L5/22—Structural features of suction cleaners with power-driven air-pumps or air-compressors, e.g. driven by motor vehicle engine vacuum with rotary fans
- A47L5/36—Suction cleaners with hose between nozzle and casing; Suction cleaners for fixing on staircases; Suction cleaners for carrying on the back
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D46/00—Filters or filtering processes specially modified for separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours
- B01D46/10—Particle separators, e.g. dust precipitators, using filter plates, sheets or pads having plane surfaces
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- This invention is related to filtering devices for removing . paper dus.t and computer chemicals such as developer, toner, carbon black and residues dispersed into the air in a data processing -room by the operation of various paper handling machines, such as computer printers; and more particularly to a filter apparatus housing having a removable top cover with an outlet grille opening and a squirrel cage fan suspended from the cover for passing filtered air through the grille, and a vacuum sweeper attachment connected to the filter housing for collecting floor contaminants.
- Locating a high speed printer away from the other equipment in the computer room is not the solution since toner and developer particles have been found to settle on computer screens located as far as 48 feet from the printer. Further, such airborne developer and toner particles are inhaled by the computing room staff. Some employees work around such printers seven days a week so that their normal body defense mechanisms may not be sufficient to prevent damage from such airborne particles. The air conditioning systems are believed to spread such particulates throughout the computing center.
- the broad purpose of the present invention is to provide an improved filtering system for closed, air conditioned computing rooms, adapted to remove a variety of contaminants from the air such as iron filings, paper dust, carbon black, toner and developer particles and other harmful chemicals by providing a filter device having several filtering elements of different filtering media for removing the contaminants.
- the preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a wheeled housing having a top opening.
- a removable cover having an outlet grille is mounted on the top opening.
- a squirrel cage fan is suspended beneath the 5 cover and is removable by the user with the cover without any tools for lubrication, inspection or cleaning.
- a ulti-layer filter pack is mounted in the housing and includes four filtering stages for removing different types of par iculates from the air.
- a vacuum cleaner motor is mounted in the bottom of the housing, beneath the filter pack, and provides means for drawing air through a flexible hose for removing material either from the floor or from inside the machine being serviced.
- a conventional vacuum cleaner employing a bag is unsuitable for such purposes because the contaminants are so fine they pass through the bag material and filtering media.
- the filter housing has a lower inlet opening.
- a duct is attached to the housing for directing the air from the machine being serviced to the filter housing.
- the duct is hingedly connected to the housing so that it can be pivoted away from the machine when it is being serviced by maintenance personnel.
- the duct has an internal baffle mounted in a novel manner to improve flow efficiency for air being redirected along a 90 degree turn.
- the baffle is mounted so that the air enters through a relatively large inlet duct opening, passes through the duct and then exits into the filter housing through a smaller outlet. This permits a relatively small squirrel cage fan motor to move a relatively large amount of air through the filter housing.
- the commercial embodiment of the invention is used by major universities, insurance companies, banks and other major computer users because for a long time it has been the only product commercially available for removing contaminants unique to a computer installation.
- the removable squirrel cage fan -structure has several advantages over those filter devices in which a squirrel cage fan is attached to the housing so that to service the fan motor, the user has to remove the housing cover and then attempt to either service or unfasten the motor from a cramped location in the housing.
- FIGURE 1 is an elevational view of filtering apparatus illustrating the preferred embodiment of the invention mounted adjacent a laser printer;
- FIGURE 2 is a sectional view through the filter housing of Figure 1;
- FIGURE 3 is a perspective view of the filter housing with a hinged hollow wing;
- FIGURES 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 but showing the wing pivoted toward the side of the filter housing;
- FIGURE 4A is a fragmentary view showing one of the handles for lifting the top cover
- FIGURE 5 is a sectional view of the wing;
- FIGURE • 6 illustrates the preferred filter pack removed from the filter housing;
- FIGURE 7 shows the manner in which the filter pack frame is unfolded
- FIGURE 8 is a plan view of the filter pack with the top frame member removed.
- Figure i illustrates a preferred mobile filtering apparatus generally indicated at 10 having a hood 12 and duct 13 for removing contaminants discharged from conventional high speed laser printer 14.
- the hood is custom designed to accommodate the outlet air opening of the particular computer device being serviced.
- printer 14 has an outlet opening for discharging contaminants into the air
- some conventional printers do not have an exhaust vent but permit the contaminants to blow into the environment.
- a ceiling-mounted hood (not shown) can be employed to capture the material as it leaves the printer.
- the hood has inlet opening 16 for receiving the contaminants and directing them toward bottom opening 18 of filter housing 20.
- filter housing 20 has a top opening 22.
- Cover 23, having grille 24, is mounted on the top opening, and has a downwardly depending lip 26 adjacent the top edge of the housing.
- FIG. 4A illustrates a typical handle mounted such that it can be raised to the lifting position illustrated in phantom from a lower position.
- Spring means 31A and 31B bias the handle toward the cover.
- Housing 20 also has front opening 32.
- Cover plate 34 is attached by fastener means 36 over opening 32.
- Motor-driven fan 38 is mounted in the bottom of the housing.
- Flexible hose 40 has one end connected to the housing adjacent the fan motor.
- Nozzle 42 is carried at the opposite end of the hose in such a manner that the motor-driven fan can draw air through the hose and in-line filter 43 for removing contaminants carried with the air from the floor. The contaminants are then directed 5 upwardly toward the grille opening through filter pack 44.
- the housing is mounted on wheel means 46 so that the user can move the filter housing toward a selected location.
- FIGs 3, 4 and 5 illustrate filter housing 20 employed for removing contaminants from a printer having a pair of exhaust openings.
- the housing has air chamber case 48 which encloses bottom inlet opening 18, to direct the air received through hood opening 50 toward the bottom inlet opening.
- ' Hollow wing 54 which functions as a duct, is mounted by hinges 54A and 54B to the side wall of case 48.
- the hinges mount the wing adjacent an elongated opening 55 so that the wing can be pivoted from a filtering position, illustrated in Figure 3, toward a side position, illustrated in Figure 4. This is particularly useful when the wing must be moved out of its normal filtering position between the filter housing and the machine being serviced and obviates the necessity for wheeling the entire filter housing toward another location.
- Latch means 55A provide means for locking the wing in its filtering position.
- wing 54 is elongated and has an inlet opening 56 and a smaller outlet opening 58.
- the inlet opening is adapted to receive air from a printer in a direction generally indicated at 60, that is at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the wing.
- the air is redirected by baffle 64 toward the outlet opening.
- the inlet edge 66 of the baffle is mounted adjacent inlet opening 56 and divides it into two sections.
- the area of the inlet opening between the baffle and wall 68 is greater than that of the area between the baffle and wall 70.
- dimension "A" of the inlet section on the outside of the turn of the incoming air is 9-7/8 inches and dimension "B" which is the width of the inside of the turn is 13-1/4 inches.
- the downstream portion of the baffle divides the transverse cross-section of the wing into two unequal sections from elbow 71A to baffle edge 71B.
- Dimension C is 3-1/8 inches and dimension D is 2 inches in a direction at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the wing measured from the edge of wall 68 at the inlet opening.
- Baffle edge 71B is 7-1/8 inches upstream of the outlet opening.
- the baffle location balances the flow rate on the two sides of the baffle resulting from the uneven flow caused by the right angle turn as the air enters the wing, and the fact chat the air is flowing from a large inlet opening toward a smaller outlet opening as it passes through the wing.
- Filter pack 44 includes frame means 70 supporting filter units 72, 74 and 76 which provide a four-stage filtering arrangement.
- the filter pack frame includes four frame members respectively designated as 78, 80, 82 and 84.
- Hinge means 86 connects the lower end of frame member 78 to the left end of frame member 80.
- Hinge means 88 connect the opposite end of frame member 80 to one end * of frame member ' 82. Similar hinge means 90 connect the opposite end of frame member 82 to top member 84.
- the frame members can be opened to receive the filter units and then closed, as illustrated in Figure 6, to a position in which wedge fastener means 92 and 94 connect top member 84 to side member 78 to form a four- sided unitary structure.
- Handle means 96 are mounted on the top frame member so that the user can easily remove and carry the filter pack.
- filter unit 72 is one inch thick of a non-woven cotton fiber.
- Filter unit 74 is a four inch thick filter of an ultra-fine fiberglass.
- Filter unit 76 is a double stage unit having particles of activated charcoal for removing odors as well as a synthetic product known as "PURAFIL" to detoxify substances such as formaldehyde.
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US06/759,757 US4678489A (en) | 1982-11-19 | 1985-07-29 | Filtering system for paper handling machines |
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US1820026A (en) * | 1923-08-10 | 1931-08-25 | Kuenhold Otto John | Clothes drying rack |
US2415471A (en) * | 1943-09-23 | 1947-02-11 | Morton I Dorfan | Fume removing and treating apparatus |
US3208205A (en) * | 1962-06-06 | 1965-09-28 | American Air Filter Co | Multi-layer filter arrangement |
US3447691A (en) * | 1967-04-03 | 1969-06-03 | Mine Safety Appliances Co | Filter |
US3494113A (en) * | 1968-05-22 | 1970-02-10 | Microtron Corp | Air filter assembly and sub-assemblies |
US3523409A (en) * | 1968-08-26 | 1970-08-11 | Werner A Paterson | Portable air filter |
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- 1986-05-27 EP EP19860903879 patent/EP0232286A4/en not_active Withdrawn
- 1986-05-27 JP JP50321286A patent/JPS63500436A/en active Pending
- 1986-05-27 WO PCT/US1986/001120 patent/WO1987000766A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
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US1820026A (en) * | 1923-08-10 | 1931-08-25 | Kuenhold Otto John | Clothes drying rack |
US2415471A (en) * | 1943-09-23 | 1947-02-11 | Morton I Dorfan | Fume removing and treating apparatus |
US3208205A (en) * | 1962-06-06 | 1965-09-28 | American Air Filter Co | Multi-layer filter arrangement |
US3447691A (en) * | 1967-04-03 | 1969-06-03 | Mine Safety Appliances Co | Filter |
US3494113A (en) * | 1968-05-22 | 1970-02-10 | Microtron Corp | Air filter assembly and sub-assemblies |
US3523409A (en) * | 1968-08-26 | 1970-08-11 | Werner A Paterson | Portable air filter |
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