A lubricating oil filter has a housing which includes a first shell providing
a
housing base and a second shell providing a housing lid, wherein a filter media
is suspended in a space defined by the shells by being clamped between a shoulder
in the housing base and a rib projecting from the housing lid. The filter media
may be either a flat filter media or a pleated pack filter media. In a preferred
configuration, the housing is rectangular and has both an unfiltered oil inlet
and a filtered oil outlet in the first shell forming the housing base so that the
filter element may be changed without disconnecting the lubricating oil filter
from inlet and outlet lines.
