Hot Rods Strange oil filter

Changing oil for the first time in my truck, and found a screen in the canister instead of a typical filter.
Anyone else seen anything like this?

 

Use to be common in industrial and truck applications. Wash and reuse the element. There are several current high performance filters using that today. You can get the elements in various micron ratings.

 

Butterfly catcher

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System 1 is similar. Different screens for catching the big chunks.... screws onto a standard holder.

 

Found one of those recently in my Pa in law's 8N tractor......it is the air filter. We unwound it, blew it out, and put it back in. From all the stuff in it, looks like it did pretty good....

 

Thanks for the replies, and info.
It would def catch the big chunks.

 

Might work better than the standard set up on a 55 265 I.E. no filter.

 

how about John Franz toilet paper oil filter? Are they coming back now.

 

I worked on a military Jeep that had the same set up, it had a hand crank on top that you turned and it was supposed to scrape the screen clean and drop the sludge into the pan so it came out when you drained the oil !!
Neat things they did back in the day

 

They never left...

 

You have to remember that if you go over 50K on an engine with that type of filter on it you probably had enough bragging rights to get you photo standing beside your car in the local weekly paper.
The quality or effectiveness of that stuff is no where close to the Wix or other top brand cartridges we have now.