Fluid handling – Plural tanks or compartments with parallel flow – With housings – supports or stacking arrangements
Patent
1995-10-30
1997-03-04
Lee, Kevin
Fluid handling
Plural tanks or compartments with parallel flow
With housings, supports or stacking arrangements
137312, E03B 303
Patent
active
056069901
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to novel apparatus for use in collecting potable rainwater.
BACKGROUND ART
While nobody would disagree that water is the one essential needed for the survival of all humans and animals, the availability of pure or high quality water, particularly for human consumption, continues to be one of the biggest problems for man because of contamination and impurities in public water supplies in which there are constantly found such things as pesticides, industrial chemicals, heavy metals, bacteria and rust by way of example, while additionally the many chemicals purposely added for various reasons all reduce the purity level which it would be most desirable to achieve. Some benefits are considered to be obtained by collecting rainwater in tanks, but the water is then contaminated by dirt and debris from roof tops. Some advantages can be achieved by the use of relatively expensive filter systems or by buying filtered or otherwise treated water, or by importing well-known brands of imported water, but even these are very much less than desired and involve costs beyond the means of the average householders.
My present invention has been devised with a view to overcoming or alleviating the problems currently associated with the acquiring of quality drinking water as aforementioned, and it has for its principal object the provision of novel apparatus for use in collecting potable rainwater whereby contact of the rainwater with surfaces having a deletious effect thereon will be avoided.
Another object of the invention is to provide novel rainwater collection apparatus which will involve a once-only cost in that it will be both efficient and robust so as to be usable for a very long and continuous period. A further object is to provide such apparatus which will be of relatively simple construction and can be made and installed without undue expense, and yet will lend itself to small domestic applications or major commercial applications or any applications therebetween. Other objects and advantages of the invention will be appreciated from the subsequent descriptions herein of preferred embodiments of the invention.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention resides broadly in apparatus for use in collecting potable rainwater including: when operatively disposed; lowermost or near lowermost when the trough member is operatively disposed; received rainwater for passage to storage or distribution means; rain-receiving location, and means; trough member to be moved between said operative disposition in which rainwater is received and then delivered via said discharge outlet and said delivery tube means and an inoperative disposition in which it has been tilted from said operative disposition to one of such inverted, semi-inverted or inclined nature that said dished trough surface will not support liquid or solid materials.
In one form of the invention, given by way of example only, said trough member is suitably of substantially conical shape so that in operation it is of dished conical form and has its discharge outlet at the lowermost apex portion thereof. Likewise, in some instances, said delivery tube means suitably comprises a flexible hose leading directly from said discharge outlet to storage or distribution means. In a very basic embodiment, said tilt means may include an elongate bracket having its outer or distal end connected to that part of the trough member which is the underneath part when operatively disposed, the other or proximal end of the bracket being pivotally connected about a horizontal tilt axis to a mounting post or other mounting surface constituting said mounting frame means. Preferably, releasable locking pin means are provided for securing said proximal end of said bracket to said mounting frame means in at least the operative disposition of said trough member.
In some alternative embodiments said elongate bracket is tubular to constitute a first part of said delivery tube means, its distal
REFERENCES:
patent: 1647900 (1927-11-01), Carpenter
patent: 5299591 (1994-04-01), Duncan
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