Fluid handling – With leakage or drip collecting
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-07
2001-02-20
Lee, Kevin (Department: 3753)
Fluid handling
With leakage or drip collecting
C122S504000, C220S571000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06189559
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a water trap for water heaters and more particularly pertains to a new portable trough for water heaters for reducing the amount of time and effort taken to replace heating elements in water heaters.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of water trap for water heaters is known in the prior art. More specifically, water trap for water heaters heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,715,569; U.S. Pat. No. 4,976,004; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 29,468; U.S. Pat. No. 5,054,160; U.S. Pat. No. 2,206,959; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 368,996.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new portable trough for water heaters. The inventive device includes a container having side walls, a bottom wall which has a depressed back portion for retaining lime from the water heater, a front end wall, a back end, and an open top; and also includes a rubber seal member disposed at and covering the back end of the container; and further includes a hose attachment member disposed through the front end wall of the container and extending outwardly of the container and having a bore extending therethrough into the container and being adapted to connect to a water vacuum hose; and also includes a handle member securely attached to an exterior of the bottom wall of the container.
In these respects, the portable trough for water heaters according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of reducing the amount of time and effort taken to replace heating elements in water heaters.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of water trap for water heaters now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new portable trough for water heaters construction wherein the same can be utilized for reducing the amount of time and effort taken to replace heating elements in water heaters.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new portable trough for water heaters which has many of the advantages of the water trap for water heaters mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new portable trough for water heaters which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art water trap for water heaters, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a container having side walls, a bottom wall which has a depressed back portion for retaining lime from the water heater, a front end wall, a back end, and an open top; and also includes a rubber seal member disposed at and covering the back end of the container; and further includes a hose attachment member disposed through the front end wall of the container and extending outwardly of the container and having a bore extending therethrough into the container and being adapted to connect to a water vacuum hose; and also includes a handle member securely attached to an exterior of the bottom wall of the container.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new portable trough for water heaters which has many of the advantages of the water trap for water heaters mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new portable trough for water heaters which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art water trap for water heaters, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new portable trough for water heaters which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new portable trough for water heaters which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new portable trough for water heaters which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such portable trough for water heaters economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable trough for water heaters which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable trough for water heaters for reducing the amount of time and effort taken to replace heating elements in water heaters. Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable trough for water heaters which includes a container having side walls, a bottom wall which has a depressed back portion for retaining lime from the water heater, a front end wall, a back end, and an open top; and also includes a rubber seal member disposed at and covering the back end of the container; and further includes a hose attachment member disposed through the front end wall of the container and extending outwardly of the container and having a bore extending therethrough into the container and being adapted to connect to a water vacuum hose; and also includes a handle member securely attached to an exterior of the bottom wall of the container.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable trough for water heaters that is convenient and easy to use.
Even still another object of the present inventio
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