US 12,076,667 B2
Disposable insert for strainer basket
Troy Renken, Mooresville, NC (US); Jason Parcell, Pfafftown, NC (US); William Kevin Carpenter, Warrensville, NC (US); and Jacob Smith, Mocksville, NC (US)
Assigned to Hayward Industries, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Hayward Industries, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/199,364.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/043,621, filed on Jun. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/988,266, filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0283534 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. B01D 29/23 (2006.01); E04H 4/12 (2006.01)
CPC B01D 29/23 (2013.01) [E04H 4/1272 (2013.01); B01D 2201/325 (2013.01); B01D 2201/4084 (2013.01)] 37 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A disposable insert system for a swimming pool or spa fluid handling device having an open-topped pump strainer basket and being installable in a swimming pool or spa filtration system, the open-topped pump strainer basket having an intake aperture in a sidewall thereof for receiving water to be strained as it flows through the fluid handling device, comprising:
a removable liner sized and shaped to be inserted into the open-topped pump strainer basket of the fluid handling device, the removable liner including:
a connection tab formed from a rigid material having an inlet aperture for receiving water to be strained, the inlet aperture being sized and shaped to align with and fluidically engage the intake aperture of the strainer basket; and
a flexible body having an inlet in a sidewall thereof and being secured about the inlet aperture of the connection tab, the flexible body defining a central chamber for receiving the water through the inlet to be strained and having a plurality of openings formed therein, the plurality of openings having diameters smaller than openings of the strainer basket,
wherein the connection tab of the removable liner is removably engageable with one or more retainers positioned about the intake aperture of the open-topped pump strainer basket.