Filters and filter units
CA 2064155 A1 · Owner: Gutman, Richard G. · Inventors: Tolcher, John A. G.; Gutman, Richard G.; Buttery, Roger A.
Overview
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A filter unit comprises a plastics frame into which a sheet of filter medium is insert moulded. Portions of the frame form apertures and other portions allow fluid access to and from the opposed surfaces of the filter medium when the frame is covered by a flat surface. The frames also form portions of an integral capsule enclosing the medium. A number of such filter units can be stacked together in various configurations so that the apertures form inlets and outlets for fluid so that in some, configurations, fluid can be passed through the filter units in parallel while, in other configurations fluid, can be passed through filter units in succession. Filters of any convenient size can be …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed March 26, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 26, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 26, 2014.
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