GB2438263A - Hand primed siphon pump and hose for grey water reuse - Google Patents

Abstract

A grey water, e.g. bathwater, reuse pump comprises a bulb connected to a three metre outlet hose 3 and a short inlet hose 1. The outlet hose has a universal hose connector 4 for attachment to a garden hose. The bulb is squeezed to start the siphon and requires about 5 squeezes. The inlet hose may be placed in a bath with the bulb floating on the water surface and the outlet hose going through the window to a water butt or directly to the garden. May be easily stored in a bathroom.

Description

<p>-2438263 Siphon Pump and Hose fitted with universal connector to empty

bathwater into garden.</p>

<p>Developed in response to the current hosepipe ban covering 13 million homes in the UK, the invention empties bathwater using a siphon pump into a water butt or directly onto the garden.</p>

<p>At the moment the only option is to use a bucket or attach an appliance into the downpipe to divert the water from the drain.</p>

<p>This product with its length of hose attached to a universal connector, can be easily stored in the bathroom and involves about 5 squeezes of the pump to start the process and then atmospheric pressure takes over, causing the bath to empty itself in minutes.</p>

Claims (1)

1. <p>Claims Greywater recycling unit 1. A greywater recycling unit

   comprising a short tube for immersion in a standing source of water, a hand operated squeezable bulb incorporating one-way entry and exit valves for drawing water into the unit whilst Preventing its return, a long tube and a connector allowing the unit to be extended by attachment to a standard garden hose.</p>

   <p>2. A greywater recycling unit which is primed by a hand operated squeezable bulb (Figure 1 (1)) incorporating one-way entry and exit valves for drawing water into the unit whilst Preventing its return.</p>

   <p>3. A greywater recycling unit which can be extended at will by using the connector (Figure 1 (2)) to attach a standard garden hose.</p>

   <p>4. A greywater recycling unit substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying picture (Figure 2), incorporating a short tube (1) for immersion in a standing source of water; attached to a hand operated squeezable rubber bulb incorporating one-way entry and exit valves for drawing water into the unit whilst preventing its return (2); attached to a long tube (3); fitted with a connector (4) allowing the unit to be extended by attachment to a standard garden hose.</p>

   <p>5. A method of re-using greywater from a container sited within a domestic property and elevated from a garden, comprising the steps of inserting the short tube of a recycling unit as claimed in any of the preceding daims into the water supply, connecting the longer tube to a garden hose by means of the universal connector squeezing the bulb a number of times in order to generate a syphon effect to cause the water to flow out of the container and distributing the water to the garden, a further container or for another use by means of the garden hose.</p>