Water conservation device, kit and method of using

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2002-12-11

2004-03-09

Prince, Fred G. (Department: 1724)

Liquid purification or separation

Filter

With pump, gas pressure, or suction source

C210S418000, C210S532100

Reexamination Certificate

active

06702942

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates conservation, more particularly to a water conservation device, kit and associated method for use in capturing gray water generated from a drain of a fresh water utility apparatus operationally connected to a fresh water source and in recycling the captured gray water to a gray water utility apparatus.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
One of the most essential ingredients for life is wholesome, palatable drinking water. Throughout the history of mankind, wars have been fought over the possession and ownership of bodies of potable water. Man may exit for weeks upon nothing but water and its essential value has always been recognized.
In modern times, through industrialization, urbanization and population growth, vast sources of clean water have been eliminated or so contaminated as to be rendered unfit for human consumption. The invention involves a system whereby available water supplies are more judiciously utilized by improved and more effective distribution, thus saving a substantial fraction of water without harming the consumer or the community.
In household sinks and showers of conventional systems currently in use, the water is soiled by soap and material washed from a person's body, and discharged to the sewer drain. With laundry washing machines the sewer discharged water is soiled by the detergent and the dirt from the laundry. With rain water the dtritus is largely leaves, twigs and air borne soot. Such water is commonly referred to as “gray matter.”
In water closets of toilets their proper functioning is predicated upon the provision of a proper liquid volumetric vehicles, usually several gallons of water are required to carry off the waste contained therein. It is not essential that the water used in these devices be potable in the strict sense. The waste entailed in conventional systems is not only of natural resources but also is an unnecessary drain on the user.
A wide variety of water conservation devices is currently available on the commercial market and an even larger number of these types of devices are known in the art of water conservation devices, for example, the water conservation system disclosed by Call in U.S. Pat. No. 3,112,497; the recirculating sewerage system disclosed by Davis in U.S. Pat. No. 4,017,395; the water recirculation system disclosed by Toms in U.S. Pat. No. 4,115,879; the dual outlet bathtub drain valve for water conservation system disclosed by Coe, III in U.S. Pat. No. 5,210,886; the shower water recycling apparatus disclosed by Sanchez in U.S. Pat. No. 5,277,218; and the wastewater treatment tank disclosed by Pomier in U.S. Pat. No. 445,477.
While all of the above-described devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not describe a water conservation device having operationally interconnected elements of a T-junction pipe, a first shutoff valve, a filter entrance pipe, a water filter apparatus, a filter exit pipe, a storage tank, an overflow pipe, an air vent stack, a second shutoff valve, a bypass pipe, a fresh water feed pipe, a third shutoff valve, a fresh water drain pipe, a fourth shutoff valve, a grey water drain pipe, a water pump, and a primary grey water feed pipe. This combination of elements would specifically match the user's particular individual needs of making it possible to capture gray water generated from a drain of a fresh water utility apparatus operationally connected to a fresh water source and to recycle the captured gray water to a gray water utility apparatus. The above-described patents make no provision for a water conservation device having operationally interconnected elements of a T-junction pipe, a first shutoff valve, a filter entrance pipe, a water filter apparatus, a filter exit pipe, a storage tank, an overflow pipe, an air vent stack, a second shutoff valve, a bypass pipe, a fresh water feed pipe, a third shutoff valve, a fresh water drain pipe, a fourth shutoff valve, a grey water drain pipe, a water pump, and a primary grey water feed pipe.
Therefore, a need exists for a new and improved water conservation device having operationally interconnected elements of a T-junction pipe, a first shutoff valve, a filter entrance pipe, a water filter apparatus, a filter exit pipe, a storage tank, an overflow pipe, an air vent stack, a second shutoff valve, a bypass pipe, a fresh water feed pipe, a third shutoff valve, a fresh water drain pipe, a fourth shutoff valve, a grey water drain pipe, a water pump, and a primary grey water feed pipe. In this respect, the water conservation device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a means for capturing gray water generated from a drain of a fresh water utility apparatus operationally connected to a fresh water source and a means for recycling the captured gray water to a gray water utility apparatus
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present device, kit and method of using, according to the principles of the present invention, overcomes the shortcomings of the prior art by providing a water conservation device, kit and method of using is disclosed in which the device comprises the operationally interconnected connected elements of a T-junction pipe, a first shutoff valve, a filter entrance pipe, a water filter apparatus, a filter exit pipe, a storage tank, an overflow pipe, an air vent stack, a second shutoff valve, a bypass pipe, a fresh water feed pipe, a third shutoff valve, a fresh water drain pipe, a fourth shutoff valve, a grey water drain pipe, a water pump, and a primary grey water feed pipe. The kit comprises the unattached elements of a T-junction pipe, a first shutoff valve, a filter entrance pipe, a water filter apparatus, a filter exit pipe, a storage tank, an overflow pipe, an air vent stack, a second shutoff valve, a bypass pipe, a fresh water feed pipe, a third shutoff valve, a fresh water drain pipe, a fourth shutoff valve, a grey water drain pipe, a water pump, and a primary grey water feed pipe and a float valve. The method comprises the steps of adjoining, affixing, associating, attaching, binding, bonding, cohering, combining, conjoining, connecting, consolidating, joining, linking, mating, obtaining, placing, putting, tying, and uniting.
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known type water conservation devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved water conservation device, which will be described subsequently in great detail, is to provide a new and improved water conservation device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by the prior art, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a the operationally interconnected connected elements of a T-junction pipe, a first shutoff valve, a filter entrance pipe, a water filter apparatus, a filter exit pipe, a storage tank, an overflow pipe, an air vent stack, a second shutoff valve, a bypass pipe, a fresh water feed pipe, a third shutoff valve, a fresh water drain pipe, a fourth shutoff valve, a grey water drain pipe, a water pump, and a primary grey water feed pipe. The kit comprises the unattached elements of a T-junction pipe, a first shutoff valve, a filter entrance pipe, a water filter apparatus, a filter exit pipe, a storage tank, an overflow pipe, an air vent stack, a second shutoff valve, a bypass pipe, a fresh water feed pipe, a third shutoff valve, a fresh water drain pipe, a fourth shutoff valve, a grey water drain pipe, a water pump, and a primary grey water feed pipe and a float valve. The method comprises the steps of adjoining, affixing, associating, attaching, binding, bonding, cohering, combining, conjoining, connecting, consolidating, joining, linking, mating, obtaining, placing, putting, tying, and uniting.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the m

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