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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8083937 | Floating baffle panel and filter apparatus The present invention is a storm water filter system for filtering floatable debris and non-floating pollutants from storm water passing through a storm water drain system vault. The storm water filtering system has a vault having chamber having a wall between the i... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8066872 | Dual weir vortex skimmer A skimmer system for removing a substantially liquid substance such as oil floating on the surface of a body of water has a reservoir body defining an collected fluid reservoir and having a primary weir edge. A weir tube extends upwardly within the reservoir and pro... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7938957 | Method and apparatus of submersible intake equipment An apparatus having flotation ballasts, a flotation platform and on the flotation platform, an intake equipment, such as a screen, check valve and/or pump intake and a coupling for a discharge pipe. In an embodiment of the present invention comprises, there are a pl... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7807052 | Apparatus for buoyancy driven filtration An apparatus for buoyancy driven filtration includes a tank and a filter assembly. The tank preferably includes a cylindrical sidewall, a circular base and a roof. The sidewall extends upward from the perimeter of the base wall and the roof extends across the top of... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7807051 | Floating oil skimmer and gravitational separation system A floating oil skimmer and gravitational separator system, consisting of a vessel adapted to be submerged in a body of water. Oil/water are drawn through the floating skimmer head by a water pump, pumping water through the skimmer head as water is pumped out of the ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7794589 | Floating suction head assembly A floating suction head assembly for use with a hose, for drawing liquid into the hose. The assembly includes a float and a strainer rotatably mounted to the float. The strainer has a coupling portion for coupling to a hose. ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7790023 | Adjustable floating weir apparatus The apparatus of this invention consists of a float assembly, constrained in its vertical movement by a perforated riser. The riser is surrounded by a flexible, bellows conduit which will allow the float assembly to move up and down the vertically disposed riser. Th... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7686951 | Vacuum skimmer for ponds and the like A vacuum skimmer for ponds, swimming pools or similar bodies of water has housing with an intake opening and a dirt collecting container arranged downstream for collecting coarse materials. The water to be purified is sucked in through the dirt collecting container ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7534343 | Device for collecting clarified water for a basin and corresponding basin A water collection device for collecting clarified water in a basin. The collection device includes a floating ring having a water inlet recessed within the central portion of the floating ring. The water collection device is configured to facilitate a greater flow ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7504025 | Self-propelled floating device for cleaning water surfaces A floating self-propelled cleaning device (10) for water surfaces, in particular swimming pools, comprises a central floating body (11) and two side floating elements (12) to it connected at opposite sides by two arms (14) to which two ne... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7455764 | Apparatus for continually skimming off a top layer of a body of liquid An apparatus for continually skimming off a top layer of a body of liquid, comprising: a self adjusting container for collecting a top layer, the container being adapted to seek an effective balanced position dependent on the liquid level for collecting the top laye... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7425260 | Separation passageway module, separation unit, and separation boat for suspension separation The present invention discloses a separation passageway module comprising a plurality of inclined plates, at least one suction pipe, and a buoyancy regulator. The inclined plate passageways are comprised by a plurality of inclined parallel plates. The inclined plate... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7357860 | Skimmer system A skimmer system composed of a base and a slidable float assembly. The base has a base chamber defined by a sidewall, an endwall, and a conduit having an intake communicating with the base chamber. The float assembly has a float chamber defined by an outer float wal... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355298 | Syphon wave generator Disclosed is a syphon wave generator for generating electric power from a wave-driven water body in a fast, easy, inexpensive and efficient manner such that the unit has few moving part, is very inexpensive to build and maintain and can withstand storms. The syphon ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347945 | Method and an installation for separating out multiphase effluents The invention relates to a method and to an installation for separating out an effluent made up of a multi-phase fluid mixture. According to the invention, said installation includes gravity separator means whose geometrical separation characteristics can be adjuste... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338596 | Air activated decanter The present inventions provide a floating type decanter apparatus that controls the decanting operation through the use of air. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7332082 | System and method for biological purification of water The invention relates to a method and a water treatment system (2) for treating and/or keeping clean water (1), in particular from swimming facilities (4), whereby the water (1) is pre-cleaned in a first step in at least one mechanical cl... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7282144 | Semi-submersible floating decanters and methods of using same Semi-submersible floating decanters and methods of use are provided. The decanters are moveable between a non-decant position and a decant position, and include a float forming an internal cavity, the float having a central annulus, a weir having an inlet opening an... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7270747 | Storm water drain system An in-line storm water drain system and a filter basket for a storm water drain system are provided in which the storm water drain system has a housing having an inlet and outlet thereinto and interior walls forming a plurality of chambers therein. The filter basket... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7241382 | Method and system for filtering sediment-bearing fluids A self-cleaning, back-washable filter apparatus and method for use with a pumping apparatus which is at least partially immersed in fluid. The filter apparatus may comprise a vibration device that is powered by a flow of fluid. A method for filtering a flow of fluid... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234894 | Storm drain basin gate system An automatically openable and closeable gate system that will find primary use with the street curb opening to a catch basin or vault of a storm drain system, and for other similar openings, the system having a gate which during dry and low-flow water drainage situa... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7213287 | Swimming pool cleaner A self-propelled swimming pool cleaner which randomly covers the bottom of the pool. Water pumped from the bottom of the unit filters dirt carried thereby, then uses the pumped water to propel the device either forward or backward. A pivoted front axle causes the pa... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7188440 | Device and method for bringing ashore or refloating a floating body An earthmoving device is suspended from a floating body provided with a hull. To that end, suspension elements for suspending the earthmoving device in a movable manner along the outside of the hull are provided, for the purpose of carrying out operations on the wat... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185707 | Hydrostatic separator apparatus and method The present invention may be used as an apparatus and method for extracting oil from a hydrocarbon material bearing formation. A well may be positioned in a formation having hydrocarbon material with a well casing extending into the formation that may have a number ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7153417 | Floating storm water drain basket A storm water filter system apparatus includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet and has a floating filter basket therein having an open end portion. A scoop formed on the front end of the filter basket is positioned to face the inlet to the housing. The filte... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153477 | Device and method for separating components of a fluid sample A device and method is provided for separating heavier and lighter fractions of a fluid sample. The device includes a plurality of constituents comprising a container and a composite element in the container. The composite element is a separator comprising at least ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7147773 | Refrigerator with treated water A refrigerator with a water treatment system including a head connecting a water supply to a water-using accessory. An end piece is provided for connecting a treatment cartridge to the head. The end piece comprises an inlet fitting having a cam that contacts a follo... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7144501 | Skimmer construction A decorative pond which includes a pond area, a water feature for discharging water into the pond and a skimmer construction for receiving pond water, separating debris from the pond water and recirculating filtered water to the water feature. The skimmer constructi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7128150 | Acid gas disposal method This invention is method of recovering gas from a gas-bearing subterranean formation in which gas is produced from an upper portion of the formation and a waste gas is injected into a lower portion of the formation to dispose of the waste gas. The waste gas is injec... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7118521 | Centrifugal separator with conical pump inlet A centrifugal separator has a centrifugal rotor that is rotatable about a vertical axis and has both a rotor body for separation of two liquids, having different densities, and a pumping member that is designed to pump via the outside of a conical body a mixture of ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7083718 | Waterboiler system with solids removal apparatus A water boiler system for producing steam or hot water includes an apparatus for removing dissolved minerals from the boiler water without the use of water softeners or other chemical treatment agents. An electromagnetic flux producing device first treats water of t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7083716 | Air activated decanter The present inventions provide a floating type decanter apparatus that controls the decanting operation through the use of air. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7078827 | Tidal generator system and method A tidal generator system is provided that includes a containment tank, and a ring mechanism provided about the containment tank to rise and fall based on tidal actions. A valve mechanism allows a liquid to pass into the containment tank. Additionally, a turbine/gene... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075190 | Tidal power generation A tidal power generator has a floating vessel hull that is subject to rising and falling water levels so that the hull moves vertically up and down. Linear-to-rotary converters are coupled between the vessel hull and a fixed object. The converters allow the hull to ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071006 | Carrier holding micro-substances, system suspending such carriers apparatus for manipulating such carriers and method of controlling positions of such carriers Carriers hold remote-acting bodies which can be manipulated by a remote force, and also hold a micro-substance which is a target substance of an assay. The remote-acting bodies are manipulated in order to control the positions of the micro-substances, so as to execu... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7052582 | Wave powered evaporation desalination system A wave powered evaporation desalination system for removing fresh water from salt water by extraction of water vapor from a negative pressure container using wave motion for power. The wave powered evaporation desalination system includes a first vessel that accepts... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7025888 | Floating decanter A floating decanter and method for charging supernatant from a vesel without drawing floating solids or scum into the discharge. The decanter includes a weir (16) having a central opening, and a solid bottom side, a float (12) adjacent to an outer edge... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7022223 | Methods and systems for removing floating solid waste from the surface of a watercourse A floating pond skimmer is coupled by a fluid conduit to a remote filter/aerating apparatus. The skimmer sucks a mixture of solids and water, grinds/chops the solids, and pumps the reduced solids and water through the conduit to the filter/aerating apparatus which s... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6962257 | Method and apparatus for removing matter from a fluid A method for removing matter from fluid contained within a tank. The method includes inserting a filter within the fluid, and circulating the fluid within the tank such that a portion of the fluid is passed through the filter such that matter contained within the fl... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6953328 | Buoyancy pump device A buoyancy pump device for use in fluid. The buoyancy pump device includes a buoyancy block housing defining a buoyancy chamber therein through which the fluid may flow. A buoyancy block is disposed within the buoyancy chamber to move axially therein in a first dire... | 10/11/2005 |
