Filter bag assembly including a venturi-cage assembly

Claim 1

Apparatus for filtering entrained particulate matter from a gas stream including a housing having an inlet for dust bearing gas and an outlet for clean gas, an apertured tube sheet intermediate said inlet and outlet defining inlet and outlet compartments, a series of porous filter bags depending from said tube sheet, each of said filter bags having a closed end thereof extending into the inlet compartment and an open end thereof extending through an aperture of said tube sheet, a support ring attached to the open end of each of said filter bags, and being concentric with respect to an aperture of said tube sheet, a source of pressurized cleaning fluid, nozzle means exhausting the cleaning fluid into the open end of each filter bag, a support cage in each filter bag comprising a longitudinal tubular framework of spaced resilient members, a tubular aspirator intermediate the nozzle means and each of said filter bags, and positioned to receive the cleaning fluid exhausting from said nozzle means, a plurality of supports contiguous with the resilient members of said frame and extending radially inward therefrom to radially abut said aspirator to support said tubular aspirator concentrically within each of said filter bags so as to maintain maximum flow from said nozzle means to effect maximum removal of dust particles from the walls of the filter bags, and an end of each longitudinal member including first and second radial projections that are spaced apart to form a saddle that holds the flexible support ring therebetween.