Glenn Farris
The "Filtre Chamberland": A Late-Nineteenth-Century Water Filter

Ceramics in America 2008

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  • Figure 1
    Figure 1

    Charles Chamberland (1851–1908). (Courtesy, Institut Pasteur.)

  • Figure 2
    Figure 2

    “Filtre Chamberland, Système Pasteur,” 1894 U.S. patent drawing.

  • Figure 3
    Figure 3

    Filter nipple for the “Filtre Chamberland, Système Pasteur,” Choisy-le-Roi, after 1884. Porcelain. H. 1 5/8". Marks: “F: FILTRE CHAMBER[LAND] . . . [S]YSTÈME PASTEUR . . . H. B. & CIE CHOISY-LE-ROI / BTÉ S.G.D.G.” (Photos, the author.)

  • Figure 4
    Figure 4

    Filter sherds, including the porous bougie and the glazed nipple.

  • Figure 5
    Figure 5

    Advertisement, published in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 36, no. 2 (August 1893): 133. The ad confirms that the Chamberland filter was being sold in Canada, Mexico, and the United States by early 1893.