Leakage detecting and detouring filter housing-assembly

Claim 1

A leakage detecting and detouring filter housing assembly of a plurality of mating parts for a plurality of cartridge-shaped filter elements comprising: a bell-shaped case top part; an intermediate plate provided with a plurality of perforations; a dish-shaped base plate; a plurality of cartridge-shaped filter elements attached to the intermediate plate, said filter elements having an end cap thereof sealed in the perforations of the intermediate plate; a leakage control channel for each filter element connecting the area between at least two ring packings with the outside of the housing, the ring packings arranged longitudinally, spaced on the cap against the top part, the intermediate plate being sealed off in the top part by the ring packings; a filtrate chamber which closes off the intermediate plate and in which a filter-outlet side ends; a filter inlet for the medium to be filtered, which filter inlet protrudes through the base plate and the intermediate plate into the top part of the casing; and clamping means for fluidtight connections of the top part, the intermediate plate, and the dish-shaped plate at their peripheries with the packings.