WO2011090444A1

WO2011090444A1 - Aquarium with cone-shaped sedimentation hole in drainage system

Info

Publication number: WO2011090444A1
Application number: PCT/TH2010/000016
Authority: WO
Inventors: Prasert Seweekool
Original assignee: Prasert Seweekool
Priority date: 2010-01-19
Filing date: 2010-03-30
Publication date: 2011-07-28

Abstract

The aquarium has a cone-shaped sedimentation hole (15) at the floor. The bottommost point of the hole is installed with the waste and ball valve (8) for the convenience of water exchanging. This cone-shaped hole will collect the sediments of wastes inside the aquarium. These wastes will be eliminated and will not bringing back for filtering which reduces energy and time of water treatment.

Description

AQUARIUM WITH CONE-SHAPED SEDIMENTATION HOLE IN

DRAINAGE SYSTEM

Technical Field Aquarium-related engineering

Background Art

In order to raise healthy fish in an aquarium, the water must continually be in a good quality due to the fish always excreting its excreta. Moreover, abundant leftover food wiH become toxic to the health of the fish will causes decease and death. The popular methods in order to keep water in good quality are 1) Exchanging 10% - 50% of water every week 2) Installing filtration system into the aquarium in order to treat the wastewater by using physical, biological, and chemical filtration.

Exchanging of water will added minerals into the aquarium. The process is to use the bowl to draw out the water or use rubber tube to suck out the water into a container (bin). During drawing or sucking out the water, an attention not to frighten the fish or not knocking down decoration materials should be taken into account. After that, wastewater in the bin will be eliminate and clean water will be replaced in the aquarium at the same level.

This wastewater treatment filtration system will reduce the water exchanging frequency and could be categorized into 2 types which are 1) Internal installation such as Thai patent no. 23816, and U.S. patent no. US4186093 Bottom aquarium filter. This internal installation will be size limited which means that the filtering materials are also limited. If the filter is too large, the area inside the aquarium will be reduced which affect the beauty of the aquarium. 2) External installation such as U.S. patent no. US265751 External biological aquarium filter. This kind of filtration will not be limiting the size which enables to put more filtering materials compared to the first type. Moreover, it will improve the treatment efficiency. This kind of filtration requires larger pump and higher electricity consumption. Outlet pipe must be installed at the aquarium and leads to the external filtering system through filtering materials and also the return pipe must be installed from filtering system to the aquarium, which the water will always circulated.

The method of both internal and external filtering system is to bring out the waste from excreta and leftover food through filtering materials located inside of the aquarium in order to perform physical and biological filtration. After that, the water will be returned back into the aquarium. The efficiency of the filtration depends on filtering materials and volume of wastes which should be balanced. More filtering materials will better eliminate wastes which results in good quality water and also appropriate for the fish

Technical problems and errors

In the present, raising aquarium fish is likely to use small and large aquarium. One major problem is about water exchanging by using rubber tube sucking the water out or using the bowl to draw out the water which must be done carefully in order to prevent the fish hitting the wall and causes injuries. Moreover, drawing out of water must be aware of the falling of decoration materials. These steps are normally complicated and frequently dirty especially larger aquariums. Besides that in the case of totally water exchanged, all of the wastes that lie at the bottom will not be taken off except taken out all of decoration materials, put the aquarium upside down and make a complete wash which requires a lot of manpower and risk of injuries.

Regarding filtration water treatment system, this kind of system will take out excreta and leftover food through filter and return the water back into the aquarium. Wastes are still circulated in the system until the waste treatment process is completed. Moreover, if the amount of waste exceeds filter's limitation, even the system is still running, the water inside is still toxic to raise the fish. In the case off too much wastes that caused blockage in the filter which results in a slower or stops the circulation, this means that the filtering system is also stopped and cause the water inside to become toxic which seriously cause decease and death.

Internally-installed wastewater treatment system has too few filtering materials to eliminate all wastes which results in the remaining of the wastes and causes low quality in water that is harmful to the fish and requires frequent water exchange. Externally-installed wastewater treatment system uses larger pump which consume more electricity and more complicate for the installation because it requires the pipe that runs from the aquarium to the filtering compartment. Moreover, the area that external filtering system will be placed must be prepared which might look untidy and need to take more care comparing to the internal installation.

Characteristics and objectives of the invention

This invention is involved with the quality of water inside the aquarium. For the convenience in water exchange process, this invention has cone-shaped floor (normally flat) which inclined to the center point. The bottom point has a hole which installed with basin waste and ball-typed valve in order to release the water. The structure also contained wire mesh installed at the shoulder part of the compartment.

Objectives of this invention are 1 ) for the convenience in water changing both partially and totally 2) change the objective of treating or filtering the wastewater in order to have the water become the same in quality to gathering all the wastes and let it precipitated for elimination which requires less time and energy. This enables the system to use smaller size of filtering system, save electricity cost, able to sustain good quality water, save medication expenses due to the fish are in good health, and able to raise more fish.

Brief description of drawings

Figure 1 Overall image of the aquarium which has coned shape, wire mesh, and

drainage system that drains downward.

Figure 2 Components of the aquarium that drains water through cone-shaped

sedimentation hole

Figure 3 Overall image of the aquarium that the bottom part contains completely

installed cone-shaped hole and body part is rectangular shape. Figure 4 How to use the cone-shaped sedimentation hole

Figure 5 Components of the aquarium with cone-shaped sedimentation hole

Figure 6 Floor of the aquarium that has cone shape or sedimentation basin in various shapes Figure 7 Edge of the cone-shaped hole that has rectangular-shaped edge but has

various shapes of sedimentation hole

Figure 8 Bottom view and front view of the cone-shaped hole shown in figure .7 Figure 9 partial images of the floor of aquarium which has cone-shaped hole or basin

Disclosure of invention

Figure 1 shows the floor of aquarium that has rectangular-edge cone-shaped hole of 1 hole or more. The number of holes depends on the size of the aquarium. The image in figure 1 shows an aquarium with 2 holes which wall #3, 4, and 5 inclined to the center point. The center point is drilled with circle hole #6 in order to install wastes #7 for draining purpose. The aquarium is also installed with ball valve #8 to turn on/off the water. The floor has some flat surface #2 in order to locate the aquarium rack. Shape of the supporting surface #2 is depending on the aquarium rack in order to withstand the weight. The edge of aquarium #1 is perpendicular so it can stick to the glass of the aquarium. The aquarium is supported with #9 stories of wire mesh with the shape of rectangular or oval which is the hole must be smaller than the size of supporting materials and size of the fish in order to prevent the falling of supporting materials into the hole and to prevent the fish coming in the cone-shaped hole to play around with precipitates and aquarium floor will more solid supported by the vertical fin #10 under the floor wire mesh. Aquarium floor after assembled with have strength and able to support flooring materials such as to flooring rocks and contains outlet hole #1 1 hole and inlet hole #12 with diameter of 1 inch and varies by the size of aquarium. This is for Externally-installed wastewater treatment system which the twisted stopper will be used when the aquarium is not in use. Figure 2 illustrates aquarium's components that have drainage system draining downwards through cone-shaped sedimentation hole. These components consisted of cone- shaped sedimentation hole #15 which assembled to the floor wire mesh #14. The assembled floor will be placed on the rack #16 and installed with the glasses #13 and put together with cone- shaped sedimentation hole # 15.

Figure 3 shows the aquarium that has drainage system draining downwards through assembled cone-shaped sedimentation hole # 17. Aquarium floor has cone shape and the very bottom point is drilled to a hole in order to install wastes and also ball valve to control water usage.

Figure 4 shows the utilization which consisted of 1 ) when there is a need to change 10% - 50% of the water, it can be conveniencely done by placing large bottle #18 to support the edge of the pipe. After that ball valve #19 will be opened until the water level is almost full then closes the valve. The water is contained with wastes from the fish including leftover food that settled at the bottom of the aquarium. Changing the water at the very bottom location is the most efficient which is better than-using rubber tube sucking the water out or using the bowl to draw out the water because most of the wastes will be precipitated due to the higher specific gravity compare to the water. These sediments are also a good fertilizer for the plants. If you wish to exchange all the water, pipe #20 will be connected to the edge of the pipe of the aquarium's floor. After that the ball valve will be opened and let the water drained off along with all of the wastes. For your confident, you can rinse the aquarium with another round of water. 2) Able to use the rack that has cone-shaped #21 for the sedimentation which is able to support both small and large precipitates all over the aquarium. After precipitated, sediments will not be able to return back to the top due to the prevention of the wire mesh that prevents the fish from coming down and play around with the sediments. Figure 4 is also shows the water circulation with the help of water pump #22. The water pump will sucked in the water from the filtering system and pass it inside the aquarium which also speeds up precipitation process. Wastes that have higher specific gravity will settled at the cone-shaped hole and only allow the water to go up to the pump. All of the wastes will precipitated at the bottom of the hole. These wastes will not be treated like other filtration systems and will be eliminated which reduces working capacity of the filter. Therefore, the filter will only filtered and treated the wastes that have lower specific gravity which is not much in volume. The water will become clear and has good quality which appropriate to raise the fish. This enables the possibility of using smaller filtration system and eliminates the need of using large system which consisted of many pipes that reduces the beauty. Moreover, smaller pump is also can be used which reduces electricity cost and fish medicine in a long term.

Figure 5 shows that after the circle edge cone-shaped hole #25 are installed to the wire mesh #24, the aquarium will have strong flooring set which will be placed on the rack #26. Cylindrical glass aquarium #23 will be assembled to the aquarium base. In this case, since the aquarium is cylindrical, the flooring must be circle edge cone-shaped hole. It can be seen that the shape of the hole is depend on the shape of the aquarium.

Figure 6 shows aquarium floor of various shapes of hole or basin. The figure shows aquarium floor that has a hole which is a part of the cone #28 and assembled to half cylindrical body #27, aquarium floor that has an octagon cone-shaped hole #30 which assembled to an octagon cylindrical body #29. Moreover, the figure also shows aquarium floor with circular- edged cone-shaped hole #32 that is assembled to cylindrical body #31. This indicates that shapes of the edge are the factor that determines the shape of the aquarium's body. Figure 7 shows rectangular body #33 but the hole can be made in different shapes. The aquarium only needs the bottommost point that can be drilled and installed with wastes and ball valve for the purpose of drainage and to collect the sediments. The figure shows the part of rectangular cone #34, the hole of rectangular cone #35, and a part of the hole of cylindrical #36. Figure 8 shows the same cone-shaped hole as shown in figure 7 but this figure shows the bottom view and front view of the rectangular cone #37, hole of rectangular cone #38, and a part of the hole of cylindrical #39.

Figure 9 indicates that the aquarium floor that has cone-shaped sedimentation hole #40 only requires some part of the floor to perform water exchange and sediments elimination.

Taking care of the aquarium with cone-shaped sedimentation hole can be easily done by exchanging the water once a week at the volume of 10% - 20% through ball valve. This system will leave wastes at the lesser amount comparing to other systems. Moreover, the water inside the aquarium will be clear, not greenish, dirty stains that stuck on the aquarium's wall will be reduced, less cleaning, and also the glass, rocks, and decoration materials will always look bright.

Best mode for carrying out the invention

As stated above in the "Disclosure of invention".

Claims

Claims 1. Aquarium floor that contains cone-shaped hole or basin # 15 of 1 or more holes to collect sediments or wastes at the bottommost point of the hole. The floor is also drilled in order to install waste and ball valve for the convenience of water exchanging and waste eliminating. There is a wire mesh #14 located on top of the cone-shaped hole to enhance the strength of the floor and to prevent the falling of supporting materials into the hole and also to prevent the fish coming in the cone-shaped hole to play around with precipitates. The floor contains edges and cavities in order to attach to the body of aquarium.

2. The shape of the hole or basin stated in item 1 has a shape of rectangular-edge cone #30 or circular-edge cone #32.

3. The shape of the hole or basin stated in item 1 of partially rectangular cone, partially circular cone, or partially cylindrical.

4. The shape of the hole or basin stated in item 1 is inclined from the top to the bottom of either wall or all sides of the wall.

5. The shape of the hole or basin stated in item 1 is geometric with 1 or more shapes.

6. One of the floors stated in item 1 -5 is partially contains cone-shaped hole or totally is cone-shaped hole.

7. One of the floors stated in item 1 -6 contains the sedimentation hole or basin of 1 or more that is depending on the size of the aquarium and its rack.

8. One of the floors stated in item 1 -7 has 2 drilled holes on the floor which is the water inlet # 1 1 and outlet # 12 for the purpose of Externally-installed wastewater treatment system. In the case of not having the external treatment system, there will be a twisted cork plugged in the hole. The position of the hole is at the middle point of the highest and lowest point of the floor and the hole will be drilled at either side of the wall.