Filter press with a stack of vertically aligned, horizontally displaceable filter plates

The invention relates to a filter press with a stack of vertically oriented or aligned, horizontally displaceable filter plates. Adjacent one of the filter plates are mutually coupled via at least one connecting element each. A respective filter chamber is defined between adjacent ones of the filter plates. The filter plates lie against one another with sealing edges in a pressing position of the stack of filter plates, and are displaceable successively to a discharge position by the horizontal displacement of at least one filter plate, in which discharge position the horizontal distance of adjacent filter plates is limited by the action of a coupling element of a filter plate on a stop surface of the connecting element of an adjacent filter plate. In a filter press, a stack of vertically oriented, horizontally displaceable filter plates enclose filter chambers therebetween. The filter plates are successively moved relative to each other from a closed pressing position, through a pressure relief position, to an open discharge position. At least one connecting element is connected to each filter plate, and is movably coupled to the respective adjacent filter plate by a coupling pin, which slides in a specially configured groove of the connecting element. In the relief position, a respective coupling pin is stopped against an intermediate blocking surface of the groove of the connecting element of the next adjacent filter plate, thereby preventing further horizontal displacement. By unlatching the connecting element, the coupling pin can then slide to a stop surface of the groove, to allow the adjacent filter plates to be displaced farther into the open discharge position.