WATER PURIFYING APPARATUS AND FILTER STRUCTURE
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Abstract
A water purifying apparatus including a head having a water inlet portion and a water outlet portion; a shaft provided in the head and rotatably mounted between the water inlet portion and the water outlet portion; a bypass flow path passing through a circumference of the shaft, and communicating the water inlet portion with the water outlet portion according to rotation of the shaft; a filter detachably mounted to the head, and having a filter inserting portion in which the shaft is inserted when being mounted on the head; and a filtering flow path in which an inlet port and an outlet port are formed on the circumference of the shaft in a direction intersecting the bypass flow path, and communicated between the filter, the water inlet portion and the water outlet portion with each other according to the rotation of the shaft.
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43 Claims
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1-37. -37. (canceled)
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38. A filter structure, comprising:
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a housing body comprising an opening portion and a first accommodating space to accommodate a filtering member; a housing cap coupled to the opening portion, the housing cap comprising a second accommodating space; a housing fastening portion provided on an inside portion of the housing cap; and an upper supporter disposed in the second accommodating space, the upper supporter coupled to the accommodated filtering member and disposed on an inner surface of the housing cap, the upper supporter comprising; a supporter accommodating portion coupled to the accommodated filtering member, a supporter stepped portion formed on the supporter accommodating portion, wherein a second filter inlet flow path is formed in the supporter stepped portion to supply water in a space between the filtering member and the housing body, a supporter extending portion extending from the supporter stepped portion, the supporter extending portion comprises a first filter inlet flow path that communicates with the second filter inlet flow path, a projecting portion formed on one end of the first filter inlet flow path, a filter outlet flow path separated from the first filter inlet flow path in the supporter extending portion, and a supporter fastening portion coupled to the housing fastening portion to prevent rotation of the upper supporter in the housing cap. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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