Tinkle-free knitted wire mesh filters and methods for making such filters

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9540752
APP PUB NO 20140245578A1
SERIAL NO

13782237

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“Tinkles” (also known as “gotchas”) (see reference number 20 in FIGS. 1 and 2) are portions of knitted metal loops produced when a tube of knitted wire mesh is cut into individual pieces. In the prior art, tinkles have been considered a fact of life and the approach has been to try to shake them out of the mesh or immobilize them on or in the mesh. By producing a knitted tube (11) having alternating segments (12,13) of knitted rows of yarn and knitted rows of wire, completely tinkle-free knitted socks are produced which are used to produce completely tinkle-free knitted wire mesh filters. Knitted wire mesh filters that cannot release tinkles because they do not have any tinkles can be used in such applications as fuel filters and airbag filters.

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ACS INDUSTRIES INCONE NEW ENGLAND WAY LINCOLN RI 02865

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Greenwood, George Tiverton, US 18 90

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