Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems of poor effect and easiness in environmental pollution caused by manual splashing of bleaching powder in the prior art, and provides a water body purifying treatment device and a water body purifying treatment method for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedling culture.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention adopts the following technical scheme:
The water body purifying treatment device for the macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings comprises a support frame, and further comprises a treatment box and a sewage pump which are fixedly connected to the support frame, wherein the output end and the input end of the sewage pump are fixedly connected with a water suction pipe and a water discharge pipe respectively, the tail end of the water discharge pipe extends to the inner top of the treatment box, the lower end of the treatment box is fixedly connected with a plurality of circumferentially distributed branch pipes, the top of the treatment box is provided with a storage box provided with an end cover, the storage box is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the treatment box, the lower end of the storage box is fixedly connected with a tubule extending into the treatment box, and a stirring assembly is arranged in the storage box.
In order to improve the mixing effect of bleaching powder and sewage, preferably, the stirring assembly comprises a rotating shaft arranged in a treatment box, the lower end of the rotating shaft penetrates through the bottom of the treatment box, a stirring rod is fixedly arranged on the outer wall of the rotating shaft, a fan blade facing the output end of a drain pipe is fixedly arranged on the top of the rotating shaft, and a lifting part for driving the rotating shaft to move up and down is arranged at the bottom of the treatment box.
In order to drive the stirring rod to reciprocate up and down, further, the lifting part comprises a reciprocating screw rod which is rotationally connected to the bottom of the treatment box, a reciprocating slide plate is connected to the outer wall of the reciprocating screw rod in a threaded manner, wherein a driving gear is fixedly arranged at the lower end of the rotating shaft, a driven gear which is in meshed connection with the driving gear is fixedly arranged at the lower end of the reciprocating screw rod, the lower end of the rotating shaft is rotationally connected to the reciprocating slide plate, a protective cover is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the treatment box, and the reciprocating screw rod is arranged in the protective cover.
In order to filter shrimp bodies and shrimp shells in sewage, further, a filter plate is longitudinally and slidably arranged on the inner wall of the treatment box, the middle part of the filter plate is upwards arched, the rotating shaft is rotationally connected with the filter plate, the filter plate is arranged between the fan blades and the stirring rod, and the lower end of the thin tube penetrates through the lower end of the filter plate.
In order to be convenient for clear up shrimp postmortem and shrimp shell that filter out of filter plate, further, the outer wall of handling the case is equipped with the fluting that aligns with the filter plate, the outer wall slip of handling the case has cup jointed the sleeve pipe, telescopic upper end fixedly connected with annular canal, the outer wall fixed mounting of handling the case has telescopic equipment, telescopic end and the annular canal fixed connection of telescopic equipment.
In order to improve uniformity and efficiency of the fine tube discharging bleaching powder, further, the lower end of the filter plate is fixedly connected with a U-shaped rod, one end of the U-shaped rod is fixedly connected with a dredging rod penetrating through the upper end of the fine tube, and the outer wall of the dredging rod is provided with evenly distributed hairbrushes.
In order to enable sewage in the treatment box to continuously change the flow direction, further, the inner bottom of the treatment box is rotationally connected with an annular plate, two through holes are formed in the annular plate, the two through holes are aligned with two branch pipes, and the annular plate is connected with a rotating shaft through a connecting part.
In order to drive the strip-shaped plate to rotate, preferably, the connecting part comprises a strip-shaped plate longitudinally and slidably connected to the outer wall of the rotating shaft, and two ends of the strip-shaped plate are fixedly connected with the annular plate.
In order to automatically lift the air pressure in the storage box, further, a telescopic air bag is fixedly arranged between the reciprocating slide plate and the bottom of the treatment box, wherein an air suction pipe and an air exhaust pipe which are communicated with the telescopic air bag are fixedly connected to the telescopic air bag, the tail end of the air exhaust pipe extends to the inner top of the storage box, and one-way valves are fixedly arranged in the air suction pipe and the air exhaust pipe.
A water purification treatment method for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings comprises the following operation steps:
firstly, shrimp larvae are bred for about 100 days, sewage at the bottoms of a plurality of breeding ponds is pumped into a water storage pond, 10 centimeters of water is pumped out of a single breeding pond at most each time, and the single water storage pond is fully filled within 24 hours;
Step two, immediately sterilizing the water body by using bleaching powder with the effective chlorine content of 37% after the single water storage pond is full of water, wherein the sterilizing dosage is 30ppm;
Step three, after disinfection for 2 days, 30 jin of quicklime is used for uniformly splashing in each mu of water area;
And fifthly, after lime is splashed for 4 days, pumping the surface water of the reservoir back into the culture pond, and supplementing a proper amount of exogenous water into the reservoir pond to compensate evaporation loss in high-temperature days and water loss in the operation process.
Compared with the prior art, the invention provides the water body purifying treatment device for the macrobrachium rosenbergii seedling culture, which has the following beneficial effects:
1. according to the water purification treatment device for the macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings, large-particle impurities in sewage, such as shrimp larva corpses and shrimp shells in sludge, can be filtered out through the filter plates, so that the shrimp larva pond bodies and the shrimp shells can be recovered, and the shrimp larva corpses and the shrimp shells are prevented from polluting water after rotting;
2. According to the water purification treatment device for the macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings, the bleaching powder in the storage box can slide from the tubules to the inner bottom of the treatment box, so that the bleaching powder is mixed with sewage in the treatment box in advance, the uniformity of the sewage and the bleaching powder is improved, the effect of sewage passing can be improved, and the bleaching powder is not easy to fly in the air to pollute the surrounding environment;
3. According to the water purification treatment device for the macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings, flowing sewage can impact the fan blades, the fan blades can drive the rotating shaft to rotate, and the rotating shaft can drive the stirring rod to continuously stir the sewage in the treatment box, so that the sewage and the bleaching powder are more fully mixed, and the purification effect on the sewage is indirectly improved;
4. according to the water purification treatment device for the macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings, the reciprocating sliding plate drives the rotating shaft to reciprocate up and down, so that the rotating shaft drives the stirring rod to reciprocate up and down while driving the circumference of the stirring rod to sweep, the effect of mixing sewage and bleaching powder is remarkably improved, and the effect of purifying sewage is indirectly improved;
5. this water purification treatment device for macrobrachium rosenbergii grows seedlings drives the filter plate through the pivot and reciprocates in the treatment box, and impurity on the filter plate then can slide to the filter plate all around to prevent impurity accumulation from blockking up in the middle part of filter plate, guaranteed the filtration efficiency of filter plate.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a first view angle axis measurement structure of a water body purifying treatment device for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings;
fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a second view angle axis measurement structure of the water body purifying treatment device for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedling culture;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a partial cutaway structure of a water purification treatment device for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings;
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a shaft measurement structure of a treatment box of the water body purifying treatment device for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings;
fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a local axial measurement structure of a water body purifying treatment device for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedling culture according to the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic diagram II of a local axis measurement structure of a water body purifying treatment device for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings.
In the figure, 1, a support frame, 2, a treatment tank, 3, a sewage pump, 4, a drain pipe, 5, a water suction pipe, 6, a branch pipe, 7, a filter plate, 8, a storage tank, 9, a thin pipe, 10, a rotating shaft, 11, a fan blade, 12, a stirring rod, 13, a reciprocating screw rod, 14, a driven gear, 15, a reciprocating sliding plate, 16, a driving gear, 17, a dredging rod, 18, a hairbrush, 19, a U-shaped rod, 20, a slot, 21, an annular channel, 22, telescopic equipment, 23, an end cover, 24, a strip-shaped plate, 25, an annular plate, 26, a through hole, 27, a telescopic air bag, 28, an air suction pipe, 29, an exhaust pipe, 30, a sleeve, 31 and a protective cover are shown.
Detailed Description
The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments.
In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the terms "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like indicate or are based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, merely to facilitate description of the present invention and to simplify the description, and do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be configured and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
Embodiment one:
Referring to figures 1-6, the water purification treatment device for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings comprises a support frame 1 for supporting the whole device, and further comprises a treatment box 2 and a sewage pump 3 which are fixedly connected to the support frame 1, wherein the sewage pump 3 is used for pumping sewage at the bottom of a culture pond, a water pumping pipe 5 and a water draining pipe 4 are fixedly connected to the output end and the input end of the sewage pump 3 respectively, the tail end of the water draining pipe 4 extends to the inner top of the treatment box 2, a plurality of circumferentially distributed branch pipes 6 are fixedly connected to the lower end of the treatment box 2, the number of the branch pipes 6 is 4-12, the number of the application is preferably 8, a storage box 8 with an end cover 23 is arranged at the top, the storage box 8 is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the treatment box 2, the storage box 8 is used for storing bleaching powder, the bleaching powder is used for disinfecting and purifying the sewage, a tubule 9 extending into the treatment box 2 is fixedly connected to the lower end of the storage box 8, and a stirring assembly is arranged in the storage box 8.
When the sewage at the bottom in the culture pond needs to be pumped into the water storage pond, the tail end of the water pumping pipe 5 stretches into the inner bottom of the culture pond, then the sewage pump 3 is started, the sewage in the culture pond is pumped out by the sewage pump 3 and is discharged into the treatment tank 2 through the water discharging pipe 4, and then the water is discharged into the water storage tank from the branch pipe 6 at the bottom of the treatment tank 2, during the water pumping period, the bleaching powder in the storage tank 8 slides to the inner bottom of the treatment tank 2 through the thin pipe 9, so that the bleaching powder is mixed with the sewage in the treatment tank 2 in advance, the uniformity of the sewage and the bleaching powder is improved, the effect on the sewage passing can be improved, the bleaching powder is not easy to float in the air and pollute the surrounding environment, and the stirring component can enable the sewage and the bleaching powder to be mixed more fully, and the purification effect on the sewage is indirectly improved;
In practice, the water body in the culture pond can be continuously recycled after being treated by the water storage pond, so that the occurrence of large-row large-replacement phenomenon in the traditional culture process is avoided, the recycling rate of the culture water reaches more than 95%, and the biological safety problems possibly brought by exogenous water are greatly reduced, so that the macrobrachium rosenbergii cultured in the pond is ensured to not carry Specific Pathogen (SPF), and the macrobrachium rosenbergii is full in intestines and stomach, strong in vitality and favored by seedling enterprises.
Embodiment two:
Referring to fig. 3, 5 and 6, substantially the same as in example one, further, specific embodiments of the stirring assembly are specifically disclosed.
The stirring assembly comprises a rotating shaft 10 arranged in the processing box 2, the lower end of the rotating shaft 10 penetrates through the bottom of the processing box 2, a stirring rod 12 is fixedly arranged on the outer wall of the rotating shaft 10, a fan blade 11 facing the output end of the drain pipe 4 is fixedly arranged on the top of the rotating shaft 10, and a lifting part for driving the rotating shaft 10 to move up and down is arranged at the bottom of the processing box 2;
When the sewage at the bottom in the cultivation pond needs to be pumped into the water storage pond, the tail end of the water pumping pipe 5 stretches into the inner bottom in the cultivation pond, then the sewage pump 3 is started, the sewage in the cultivation pond is pumped away by the sewage pump 3 and is discharged into the treatment tank 2 through the water discharging pipe 4, then the branched pipe 6 at the bottom of the treatment tank 2 is discharged into the water storage tank, during the water pumping period, the bleaching powder in the storage tank 8 can slide to the inner bottom of the treatment tank 2 through the thin pipe 9, so that the sewage and the sewage are mixed in the treatment tank 2 in advance, the uniformity of the sewage and the bleaching powder is improved, the effect on the sewage can be improved, the bleaching powder is not easy to float in the air and pollute the surrounding environment, and when the sewage is discharged out of the water discharging pipe 4, the flowing sewage can impact the fan blade 11, the fan blade 11 can drive the rotating shaft 10 to rotate, the stirring rod 12 can be driven to continuously stir the sewage in the treatment tank 2, the sewage is more fully mixed with the bleaching powder, the purifying effect on the sewage is indirectly improved, and the lifting part can drive the rotating shaft 10 to drive the stirring rod 12 to sweep the sewage circumferentially, and the stirring rod can be moved up and the stirring rod 12 to the effect on the stirring rod can be obviously and the purifying effect on the sewage.
Embodiment III:
Referring to fig. 3 and 5, the embodiment of the lifting part is disclosed in detail, basically the same as the second embodiment.
The lifting part comprises a reciprocating screw rod 13 rotatably connected to the bottom of the treatment box 2, the outer wall of the reciprocating screw rod 13 is in threaded connection with a reciprocating slide plate 15, wherein a driving gear 16 is fixedly arranged at the lower end of a rotating shaft 10, a driven gear 14 in meshed connection with the driving gear 16 is fixedly arranged at the lower end of the reciprocating screw rod 13, the lower end of the rotating shaft 10 is rotatably connected to the reciprocating slide plate 15, a protective cover 31 is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the treatment box 2, and the reciprocating screw rod 13 is arranged in the protective cover 31;
When the drain pipe 4 discharges sewage, the flowing sewage can impact the fan blade 11, the fan blade 11 can drive the rotating shaft 10 to rotate, the rotating shaft 10 can drive the stirring rod 12 to continuously stir the sewage in the treatment tank 2 so that the sewage and the bleaching powder are more fully mixed, the purifying effect on the sewage is indirectly improved, the lifting part can enable the rotating shaft 10 to drive the stirring rod 12 to sweep circumferentially and enable the stirring rod 12 to reciprocate up and down, thereby remarkably improving the effect of mixing the sewage and the bleaching powder, indirectly improving the purifying effect on the sewage, the rotating shaft 10 can drive the driving gear 16 to rotate during the rotation of the rotating shaft 10, the driving gear 16 can drive the driven gear 14 to rotate, the driven gear 14 can drive the reciprocating screw 13 to rotate, the reciprocating screw 13 can drive the reciprocating slide 15 to reciprocate up and down, and then the rotating shaft 10 can drive the stirring rod 12 to reciprocate up and down while driving the stirring rod 12 to sweep circumferentially, thereby remarkably improving the purifying effect on the mixed sewage and the bleaching powder.
Further, a telescopic air bag 27 is fixedly arranged between the reciprocating slide plate 15 and the bottom of the processing box 2, wherein an air suction pipe 28 and an air discharge pipe 29 communicated with the telescopic air bag 27 are fixedly connected to the telescopic air bag 27, the tail end of the air discharge pipe 29 extends to the inner top of the storage box 8, and check valves are fixedly arranged in the air suction pipe 28 and the air discharge pipe 29;
When the reciprocating slide plate 15 moves up and down, the reciprocating slide plate 15 also can reciprocally push and stretch the telescopic air bag 27, when the telescopic air bag 27 is pushed, air can be blown into the storage box 8 through the air exhaust pipe 29, when the end cover 23 of the storage box 8 is closed, the pressure in the storage box 8 can be increased, so that the bleaching powder can be more efficiently discharged from the thin pipe 9, and when the telescopic air bag 27 is stretched, air can be sucked through the air suction pipe 28.
Embodiment four:
Referring to fig. 3 to 5, substantially the same as in example three, further, a specific embodiment of filtering sewage is specifically added.
The inner wall of the treatment box 2 is longitudinally and slidably provided with a filter plate 7 for filtering shrimp and shrimp bodies and shrimp shells, the middle part of the filter plate 7 is upwards arched, a rotating shaft 10 is rotationally connected with the filter plate 7, the filter plate 7 is arranged between a fan blade 11 and a stirring rod 12, and the lower end of a thin pipe 9 penetrates through to the lower end of the filter plate 7;
When the sewage at the bottom of the culture pond is required to be pumped into the water storage pond, the tail end of the water pumping pipe 5 extends into the inner bottom of the culture pond, then the sewage pump 3 is started, the sewage in the culture pond is pumped out by the sewage pump 3 and is discharged into the treatment tank 2 through the water discharging pipe 4, and then the sewage is discharged into the water storage tank from the branch pipe 6 at the bottom of the treatment tank 2, during the water pumping period, the bleaching powder in the storage tank 8 slides to the inner bottom of the treatment tank 2 through the thin pipe 9, so that the sewage and the sewage are mixed in advance in the treatment tank 2, the uniformity of the sewage and the bleaching powder is improved, the effect of the sewage can be improved, the bleaching powder is not easy to float in the air to pollute the surrounding environment, and after the sewage enters the treatment tank 2, the sewage firstly passes through the filter plate 7, and the filter plate 7 can filter large-particle impurities in the sewage, such as shrimp larvae and shrimp larvae, and shrimp larvae and shells, so that the shrimp larvae and shrimp bodies and shrimp shells can be recovered and water bodies after rotting are prevented;
When the rotating shaft 10 moves up and down, the rotating shaft 10 also drives the filter plate 7 to move up and down in the treatment box 2, the filter plate 7 drives the upper end face to filter out impurities, and the impurities slip down around the filter plate 7 due to the fact that the middle of the filter plate 7 is arched upwards, so that the impurities are prevented from accumulating and blocking the middle of the filter plate 7, and the filtering efficiency of the filter plate 7 is guaranteed.
Furthermore, a slot 20 aligned with the filter plate 7 is arranged on the outer wall of the treatment box 2, a sleeve 30 is sleeved on the outer wall of the treatment box 2 in a sliding manner, an annular channel 21 is fixedly connected to the upper end of the sleeve 30, a telescopic device 22 is fixedly arranged on the outer wall of the treatment box 2, and the telescopic end of the telescopic device 22 is fixedly connected with the annular channel 21;
When the impurities on the periphery of the upper end of the filter plate 7 need to be cleaned, the sewage pump 3 is turned off, the annular channel 21 is driven to move downwards through the telescopic equipment 22, the annular channel 21 can drive the sleeve 30 to move downwards synchronously, and when the sleeve 30 is completely separated from the slot 20, the impurities on the periphery of the filter plate 7 can be cleaned out in the slot 20.
Furthermore, the lower end of the filter plate 7 is fixedly connected with a U-shaped rod 19, one end of the U-shaped rod 19 is fixedly connected with a dredging rod 17 penetrating to the upper end of the tubule 9, and the outer wall of the dredging rod 17 is provided with evenly distributed hairbrushes 18;
when filter plate 7 reciprocates, filter plate 7 can drive the mediation pole 17 through U-shaped pole 19 and reciprocate in tubule 9, and the mediation pole 17 then can make the bleaching powder in storage box 8 and the tubule 9 more even and efficient downward landing, prevents to appear blockking up in the tubule 9 on the one hand, on the other hand can make the bleaching powder mix more evenly in the sewage again, and the brush 18 of mediation pole 17 outer wall then can promote the mediation effect of mediation pole 17.
Fifth embodiment:
referring to fig. 3, 5 and 6, substantially the same as in example four, further, a specific embodiment for improving the mixing effect of the bleaching powder is added.
The inner bottom of the treatment box 2 is rotationally connected with an annular plate 25, two through holes 26 are formed in the annular plate 25, the two through holes 26 are aligned with two branch pipes 6, the annular plate 25 is connected with the rotating shaft 10 through a connecting part, the connecting part comprises a strip-shaped plate 24 longitudinally and slidably connected to the outer wall of the rotating shaft 10, and two ends of the strip-shaped plate 24 are fixedly connected with the annular plate 25;
When the drain pipe 4 discharges sewage, the flowing sewage can strike the fan blade 11, the fan blade 11 can then drive the rotating shaft 10 to rotate, the rotating shaft 10 can then drive the stirring rod 12 to continuously stir sewage in the treatment tank 2, so that the sewage and the bleaching powder are more fully mixed, the purifying effect on the sewage is indirectly promoted, the lifting part can enable the rotating shaft 10 to drive the stirring rod 12 to sweep circumferentially and simultaneously enable the stirring rod 12 to reciprocate up and down, thereby obviously promoting the effect of mixing sewage and the bleaching powder, indirectly promoting the purifying effect on the sewage, and because only two through holes 26 are formed in the annular plate 25, the bottom of the treatment tank 2 can only be provided with two branched pipes 6 to discharge the sewage, and when the rotating shaft 10 rotates, the strip plate 24 can also drive the annular plate 25 to rotate at the inner bottom of the treatment tank 2, the annular plate 25 can drive the two through holes 26 to sweep circumferentially, and then the two through holes 26 can continuously sweep positions, and sequentially align with other multiple branched pipes 6, so that the treatment tank 2 can continuously change the positions to discharge the sewage, and the flowing direction of the sewage can be further fully changed when the bottom of the treatment tank 2 is switched, and the flowing direction of the sewage can be further fully promoted.
A water purification treatment method for macrobrachium rosenbergii seedlings comprises the following operation steps:
firstly, shrimp larvae are bred for about 100 days, sewage at the bottoms of a plurality of breeding ponds is pumped into a water storage pond, 10 centimeters of water is pumped out of a single breeding pond at most each time, and the single water storage pond is fully filled within 24 hours;
Step two, immediately sterilizing the water body by using bleaching powder with the effective chlorine content of 37% after the single water storage pond is full of water, wherein the sterilizing dosage is 30ppm;
Step three, after disinfection for 2 days, 30 jin of quicklime is used for uniformly splashing in each mu of water area;
And fifthly, after lime is splashed for 4 days, pumping the surface water of the reservoir back into the culture pond, and supplementing a proper amount of exogenous water into the reservoir pond to compensate evaporation loss in high-temperature days and water loss in the operation process.
When the sewage at the bottom of the breeding pond is required to be pumped into the water storage pond, the tail end of the water pumping pipe 5 extends into the inner bottom of the breeding pond, then the sewage pump 3 is started, the sewage in the breeding pond is pumped away by the sewage pump 3 and is discharged into the treatment box 2 through the drain pipe 4, the sewage firstly passes through the filter plate 7 after entering the treatment box 2, and the filter plate 7 can filter out large particle impurities in the sewage, such as shrimp bodies and shrimp shells in the sludge, so that the shrimp bodies and the shrimp shells can be recovered, the shrimp bodies and the shrimp shells are prevented from polluting the water after being decayed, the sewage can drop into the inner bottom of the treatment box 2 after being filtered, and then is discharged into the reservoir from the branch pipe 6 at the bottom of the treatment box 2;
During pumping, the bleaching powder in the storage box 8 slides to the inner bottom of the treatment box 2 through the thin pipe 9, so that the bleaching powder is mixed with the sewage in the treatment box 2 in advance, the effect of sewage passing can be improved, the bleaching powder is not easy to float in the air to pollute the surrounding environment, when the sewage is discharged from the drain pipe 4, the flowing sewage can impact the fan blade 11, the fan blade 11 can drive the rotating shaft 10 to rotate, the rotating shaft 10 can drive the stirring rod 12 to continuously stir the sewage in the treatment box 2, so that the sewage and the bleaching powder are more fully mixed, and the purifying effect on the sewage is indirectly improved;
During the rotation of the rotating shaft 10, the rotating shaft 10 drives the driving gear 16 to rotate, the driving gear 16 drives the driven gear 14 to rotate, the driven gear 14 drives the reciprocating screw 13 to rotate, the reciprocating screw 13 drives the reciprocating slide plate 15 to reciprocate up and down, and the reciprocating slide plate 15 drives the rotating shaft 10 to reciprocate up and down, so that the rotating shaft 10 drives the stirring rod 12 to sweep circumferentially and simultaneously enables the stirring rod 12 to reciprocate up and down, thereby remarkably improving the effect of mixing sewage and bleaching powder and indirectly improving the effect of purifying sewage.
The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art who is skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains should make equivalent substitutions or modifications according to the technical scheme and the inventive concept disclosed herein, and should be covered by the scope of the present invention.