DE19602792A1 - Biofilter for room air, humidity and plant supply device - Google Patents

Abstract

At least two vacuum principle tank elements (5a-d) are connected to form a combined unit, integrating means of filtering, preparing, or humidifying the room air. The tank elements are placed in layers. A receptacle (1/1a/1b) is fitted with more than one tank/vacuum group. The appliance acts as biological air filter with air-circulating plant/filter pot (18), plants (20) and activated carbon (19), with ventilator unit (10a-d)(17) and an air-transporting (15) element. A spring can be combined as a source of water.

Description

The invention is a ROOM AIR BIOFILTER - / - HUMIDIFICATION AND PLANT SUPPLY DEVICE, consisting of Un terdruckprinzip-Tanks, which open into the tank bottom area water filling channel, a ventilation channel opening into the tank top area and an outlet opening in the Have tank bottom area, wherein at least two tanks are connected to each other, and whereby means for air circulation with adsorption granulate (charcoal), incl. large and plant / filter vessel or decorative fountain relevant facilities are provided (after 195 47 505.4).

Generic facilities, at least in some areas show DE 38 15 284 C2 (tank chain), DE 35 46 831 C2 (including a ring tank with activated carbon and Expanded clay additions), EP 593 393 A1 (biological, plant-reinforced air filter) and US Pat. No. 5,201,860 A (plant-reinforced room air filter).

The present invention is based on this prior art.

The task of invention is a room air biofilter / humidifier and plant supply device to create an increase in effectiveness - also with regard to the water supply for plants and microorganisms, as well as for air humidification - enables, and the is also suitable as a retrofit kit for primarily hydroponic systems.

The task was solved as stated in the characterizing part of claim 1

• I. that at least two tank elements / vacuum principle tank elements ( 5 a-d) are provided one above the other, and
• II. That means ( 5 e; 6 - 9 b, 10 a-d, 11 - 13 ) are available / provided, as a result of which the tank elements ( 5 a-d), which are placed in layers, can be coupled together to form a collaborative working group, and / or
• III. that appropriate means ( 1-20 ) for room air filtering / conditioning / humidification are provided / associated / integrated in the tank.

In the drawings is the invention for example - and z. T. very simplified - has been shown:

Fig. 1 shows a "towered" of four tank elements vacuum principle tank with hints of fan in the front view in section.

As Fig. 2 is another - here about complete - device variant shown in a perspective view.

Each tank element ( 5 ) has shaft-forming ( 5 e) cylinder surfaces at the same locations, each with removed / removable connecting circle surfaces.

These cylinder surfaces (shafts) (= 5 e) are

• - for the filling channel ( 6 ),
• - for the ventilation duct ( 8 ),
• - Bridging elements / shaft pieces ( 11 ) connecting the tank chambers ( 12 a-d),
• - for the water level indicator ( 9 ) and
• - relevant for air ( 15 , 14 ) or
• - for decorative fountain and
• - Relevant pipe inserts ( 10 a-d) are provided for various lines (electricity, light = transparent tank elements).

For this purpose, appropriate sealing plugs ( 7 ) - filling the gap ( 13 ) - are inserted between the cylindrical shafts ( 5 e). Sealing plugs ( 7 ) are also provided; a stopper ( 7 ) with an outlet opening ( 7 a) is also attached below the end of the filler channel ( 6 a).

Base parts ( 16 ) - or tank spacers - under the tank structure and a water filling funnel ( 4 ) together with the hood over the pipe element "shaft" ( 10 a-d) complete the invention.

How the "tower element tank" works is the same as a normal vacuum principle tank without moving parts (Mariottsche Fla cal; Bird bath. . .) - and is assumed to be known - and here for the sake of simplicity not specifically explained.

In detail, it is useful and provided on the invention device side:

• - that the / a vessel / upper / outer / pot vessel (= 1/1 a / 1 b) with vacuum principle tank group (5 a-d) is equipped more than one tank /,
• - The tank groups depending on each other (with each other) and / or independently - un communicating with each other and / or not communicating with each other connected,
• - And / or that tanks next to each other and / or in different levels (large + small ne tanks) are placed;
• - That vacuum principle tanks as tank parts connection-holding grid devices have - with which they are locked to each other;
• - That negative pressure principle tanks / tank parts (individual tanks) - in layers to each other arranged - have communication connections, whereby (initially) z. T. to be opened Connecting shafts are provided;
• - That the tanks in the offset network in layers and / or so side by side placed / arranged;
• - That tanks / U-tanks ( 5 a / 5 b) and plant / filter pots ( 18 ) are designed as approximately half-cylinder / half-truncated cone-like vessels (segments), whereby - as regards their segregated vessels - also a planted single segment plant / Filter vessel ( 18 ) with such a dimension (device-relevant) segment tank ( 5 a / 5 b) is provided as a (supplementary) unit (= planting / filter segment vessel + device tank segment = approximately complete cylinder - / - truncated cone unit);
• - That the device - as a biological air filter with air circulation-suitable plant / filter pot ( 18 ), plant ( 20 ) and A-charcoal ( 19 ) and fan unit ( 10 a-d, 14 , 17 ) - as an air-transporting ( 15 ), electrical element ( 14 ) - designed -,
• - combined / combinable with a spring fountain (decorative fountain) is provided, and
• - That they also as a retrofit kit - for existing facilities (planting / ornamental fountain facilities) - is provided;
• - That the planting and filtering vessel ( 18 ) is created / provided as a collapsed / set segment vessel set (- thus two half-cylinder / half-cone stump vessels are approximately connected to a vessel set -), which individual vessels (= 18 / Fig. 2 are each also provided) additional different planted (/ 20 mounts a vessel segment / 18 with other / other flowering plants as its counterpart - / - setgefäß in bulk container / 1/1 a / Fig 1).
• - That an air and a water transporting element (per electric pump - or pump + fan) is combined with each other;
  that the upper end of the channel / tubular element ( 10 a) for air circulation ( 15 ) is covered, and that for this a visible hood / cover ( 17 ) is provided - and arranged -; such as
• - That in the tank bottom wall (= 5 d) - in the area below the filler channel underside ( 6 a) - one of the circular shafts ( 5 e) - with the sealing plug ( 7 ) placed there - is seen before; and that the sealing plug ( 7 ) contains the small tank outlet ( 7 a).

The completed tank element assembly (... 5 a-d, 14) - in the main line - approximately in the middle region of a major vessel (1/1 a) is placed, and with the planting and Filteraufschüttung (19) - with, or without planting / filter vessels ( 18 ) - rearranged and planted; then it is filled with water, a layer of water at the height approximately up to the sub-opening ( 8 a) of the tank ventilation channel ( 8 ) also being filled on the large vessel bottom ( 1 ).

If the fan motor ( 14 ) is now switched on, it sucks in ambient air ( 15 a) contaminated with pollutants on the side of the fan cover ( 17 ) through the corresponding pipe element ( 10 ) and blows it all around under the (bottom) tank bottom wall, into the all-round, moist planting and filter fill ( 19 ). From there, the air rises, is cleaned, transports the moisture to the higher-level fill layers ( 19 ) - and finally comes out cleaned ( 15 b) and sufficiently humidified from the fill ( 19 ) - and into the device environment.

Microorganisms adhering to the plant roots or otherwise also on the fill ( 19 ) split up the air filtering / adsorption in staggered cycles, in particular to plant nutrients (biogenesis), the plant roots detecting and absorbing the nutrients in accordance with their properties of the chemotropi.

The tank elements ( 5 a-d) can be increased to different heights as required.

Also luftkommunizierende each other (15) of the tank element groups are filter efficiency-enhancing be used in a large vessel Sonders (1/1 a).

When setting up the special tank device ( 5 a-d...) It must be ensured that the tank ( 5 ) relevant ventilation duct lower end ( 8 a) (which, according to the vacuum principle, influences the water level - the water level - on the outer vessel bottom / 1 ) in a " Slipstream "is located. In Fig. 1, the ventilation duct end ( 8 a) behind the spacer ( 16 ) placed on the right is "wind-protected" (= 15 ). The outside / large vessel bottom water remains here so that the vacuum principle tank technology can work. The plant supply is provided and secured by the water tank / U-tank ( 5 a-d) - as by the adsorption splits (type of mineralization) which bring about the microorganisms.

Since the plants also spread out at the roots, an occasional plant regeneration in the form of repotting (plant replanting) - with (depending on the type of plant) plant pruning and especially root pruning, with simultaneous (at least partial) replacement of the planting / Filter fill ( 19 ) - he required.

The list of reference symbols is pending - in addition to the description.  

Reference list

1

Large inner bottom

1

a indicated: upper edge of the large vessel

1

b Planter / outer vessel

2nd

Distance display (between large tank bottom)

3rd

Representation of the distance (between the tank elements)

4th

Hopper (for water)

5

Vacuum principle tank

5

ad representation of the tank elements

5

e shaft (circular)

6

Filling channel

6

a Bottom of the filling channel

7

Plug

7

a outlet breakthrough

8th

Ventilation duct

8th

a Ventilation duct under opening

8th

b Upper ventilation duct opening

9

Water level indicator

9

a lower breakthrough

9

b top breakthrough

10th

ad pipe elements

11

Bridging element

12th

ac tank chambers

13

Gap (for plugs not drawn)

14

Illustration for fan (motor + fan screw)

15

Representation of the air flow direction

15

a Representation of the air flow direction (contaminated air)

15

b Representation of the air flow direction (cleaned / conditioned air)

16

Spacers

17th

Hood

18th

indicated: planting / filter vessel shaft

19th

Planting and filter filling

20th

plant

Claims (12)

1. ROOM AIR BIOFILTER - / - HUMIDIFICATION AND PLANT SUPPLY DEVICE, after 195 47 505.4, characterized ,

• - That at least two tank elements / vacuum principle tank elements ( 5 a-d) are provided arranged one above the other, and
• - That means ( 5 e, 6 - 9 b, 10 a-d, 11 - 13 ) are available / provided, as a result of which the tank elements ( 5 a-d) placed in layers can be coupled to one another to form a collaborative working group, and / or
• - That appropriate means ( 1-20 ) for room air filtering / conditioning / humidification are provided / associated / integrated in the tank.

2. ROOM AIR BIOFILTER - / - HUMIDIFICATION AND PLANT SUPPLY DEVICE, according to claim 1, characterized in that

• - that the / a vessel / upper / outer / Übertopfgefaß (= 1/1 a / 1 b) with vacuum principle tank group (5 a-d) is equipped more than one tank /,
• the tank groups are dependent on and / or independent of one another and / or are connected in a communicating manner and / or are not connected in a communicating manner with one another,
• - And / or that tanks are placed side by side and / or in different levels (large + small tanks).

3. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that un-pressure principle tanks as tank parts ( 5 a-d) connection-holding raster devices with which they are locked to each other. 4. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that Un terdruckprinzip tanks / tank parts (individual tanks) - arranged in layers to each other - Commu  Have nizierverbindungen, where (initially) z. T. opening connecting shafts are provided. 5. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the Tanks are also placed / arranged in layers and / or in such a way next to each other are not. 6. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that tanks / U-tanks (= 5a, 5b...) And planting / filter pots (= 18 ) as approximately half-cylinder / half-truncated cone-like vessels (segment) are trained. 7. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that

• - That the same - as a biological air filter with air circulation suitable plant / filter pot ( 18 ), plant ( 20 ) and A-charcoal ( 19 ) and fan unit ( 10 a-d, 14 , 17 ) - as air transporting ( 15 ), electrical element ( 14 ) - designed -,
• - combined / combinable with a spring fountain (decorative fountain) is provided, and
• - That it is also provided as a retrofit kit - for existing facilities (planting / ornamental fountain facilities).

8. Device according to one of claims 6 or 7, characterized in that the planting and filtering vessel ( 18 ) is created / provided as a collapsed / set segment vessel set (- thus two half-cylinder / half-truncated cone vessels approximately to a vessel set) are connected -), which individual vessels (= 18/2) are respectively provided with plants also different complement (a segment of vessel / 18 different flowering with other / plants / fitted 20 as its counterpart -. / - setgefäß in bulk container / 1/1 a / Fig. 1). 9. Device according to one of claims 1 or 7, characterized in that one each air and water transporting element (per electric pump - or pump + fan) is combined with each other. 10. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the upper end of the channel / tubular element ( 10 a) for the air circulation ( 15 ) is covered, and that for this a visible hood / cover ( 17 ) is provided - and arranged - . 11. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the tank bottom wall (= 5 d) - in the area below the filler channel underside ( 6 a) - one of the circular shafts ( 5 e) - with the sealing plug ( 7 ) placed there - is provided. 12. The apparatus according to claim 11, characterized in that the sealing plug ( 7 ) contains the tank outlet small opening ( 7 a).