Disclosed herein are a pump and a method for controlling the pump for detecting a fluid around the pump based on a value detected by a capacitive sensor. The pump may include a motor housing accommodating a motor configured to drive an impeller to discharge fluid. The pump may include a pump cap, located above the motor housing, accommodating a controller configured to drive the motor. The pump may include a sensor box, provided on a side of the pump, accommodating a capacitive sensor. The controller may be configured to drive the motor after determining that the value detected by the capacitive sensor indicates that the fluid is present around the pump.
F04D 15/02 - Stopping of pumps, or operating valves, on occurrence of unwanted conditions
F04D 13/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
G01D 5/24 - Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing memberMeans for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for convertingTransducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means influencing the magnitude of a current or voltage by varying capacitance
G01F 23/263 - Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measuring physical variables, other than linear dimensions, pressure or weight, dependent on the level to be measured, e.g. by difference of heat transfer of steam or water by measuring variations of capacity or inductance of capacitors or inductors arising from the presence of liquid or fluent solid material in the electric or electromagnetic fields by measuring variations in capacitance of capacitors
G01N 27/22 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance by investigating capacitance
G01P 3/44 - Devices characterised by the use of electric or magnetic means for measuring angular speed
G05D 9/12 - Level control, e.g. controlling quantity of material stored in vessel characterised by the use of electric means
Disclosed herein are a pump and a method for controlling the pump for detecting a fluid around the pump based on a value detected by a capacitive sensor. The pump may include a motor housing accommodating a motor configured to drive an impeller to discharge fluid. The pump may include a pump cap, located above the motor housing, accommodating a controller configured to drive the motor. The pump may include a sensor box, provided on a side of the pump, accommodating a capacitive sensor. The controller may be configured to drive the motor after determining that a value detected by the capacitive sensor indicates that the fluid is present around the pump.
F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
G01M 3/16 - Investigating fluid tightness of structures by using fluid or vacuum by detecting the presence of fluid at the leakage point using electric detection means
Disclosed herein are a pump system and a method for controlling the pump system for detecting a failure of the pump system. The pump system may include a pump comprising a motor configured to drive an impeller to discharge fluid, a basin accommodating the pump, a discharge pipe connected to the pump and being pathway of the fluid, a check valve provided on the discharge pipe and configured to prevent backflow of the fluid,. The pump system may also include sensor configured to detect environmental data of at least one of the pump, the basin, the discharge pipe, and the check valve. The pump system may further include a processor configured to, based on the environmental data, determine whether the failure of the pump system is likely to occur, and when the failure is determined to be likely, send a notification.
F04D 27/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
F04D 13/08 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven for submerged use
F04D 15/02 - Stopping of pumps, or operating valves, on occurrence of unwanted conditions
F04B 49/00 - Control of, or safety measures for, machines, pumps, or pumping installations, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups
A waste collection and disposal unit including a tank, a float-switch sensing system, and a grinder pump. The tank contains a contoured and sloping floor, a front section, a back section, two side sections and a one-piece lid, which is securable onto the other sections of the tank. The floor slopes downwardly from below the float-switch sensing system to below the grinder pump at an angle of at least about 5 degrees and is contoured in a downward curved arc between the front and back sections of the tank.
Disclosed herein are a pump and a method for controlling the pump for discharging a fluid. The pump may have an impeller configured to move fluid through the pump in a common direction regardless of which way the impeller rotates, an electric motor configured to drive the impeller, and a controller configured to detect potential failure of the impeller to rotate, and, in response to detection of the potential failure, reverse polarity of current to the electric motor to reverse rotation of the impeller.
F04D 15/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations, or systems
F04D 7/04 - Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts of centrifugal type the fluids being viscous or non-homogeneous
F04D 13/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
F04D 29/22 - Rotors specially for centrifugal pumps
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REVERSING POLARITY OF A PUMP ON FAILURE, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF
Disclosed herein are a pump and a method for controlling the pump for discharging a fluid. The pump may have an impeller configured to move fluid through the pump in a common direction regardless of which way the impeller rotates, an electric motor configured to drive the impeller, and a controller configured to detect potential failure of the impeller to rotate, and, in response to detection of the potential failure, reverse polarity of current to the electric motor to reverse rotation of the impeller.
F04D 7/04 - Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts of centrifugal type the fluids being viscous or non-homogeneous
F04D 1/00 - Radial-flow pumps, e.g. centrifugal pumpsHelico-centrifugal pumps
F04D 17/10 - Centrifugal pumps for compressing or evacuating
F04D 13/08 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven for submerged use
F04D 29/22 - Rotors specially for centrifugal pumps
A waste collection and disposal unit including a tank, a float-switch sensing system, and a grinder pump. The tank contains a contoured and sloping floor, a front section, a back section, two side sections and a one-piece lid, which is securable onto the other sections of the tank. The floor slopes downwardly from below the float-switch sensing system to below the grinder pump at an angle of at least about 5 degrees and is contoured in a downward curved arc between the front and back sections of the tank.
dewatering pumping systems comprised primarily of a sump pump and battery-operated backup sump pump, and also including accessories, namely, float switches to sense performance and control operation of pumps, alarms in the nature of alarm sensors, and controls in the nature of electronic control panels
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Remote monitoring and control systems comprising electrical controls, backup batteries, audible alarms and float sensors for sump pumps that sense performance and control operation of sump pumps; Internet-connected computer hardware and recorded software systems for remote monitoring, troubleshooting, diagnosing, sensing performance and controlling of sump pumps and sewer pumps; downloadable mobile applications and computer application software for remote monitoring, troubleshooting, diagnosing, sensing performance and controlling of sump pumps, sewage pumps and pump systems and remote monitoring of ambient environmental conditions Monitoring services, namely, remote monitoring of the performance of sump pumps and sewer pumps; software as a service services (SAAS) featuring software for remote monitoring and controlling the performance of sump pumps and sewer pumps
A molded basin for use with a submersible sump, sewage or grinder pump. The molded construction of the basin permits design improvements to be incorporated into the basin including bolt down slots in a bottom flange of a bottom of the basin, a molded inner basin mounting surface for a float tree, a molded inner surface support mount to receive a bracket of a rail system used to raise and lower the pump within the basin, a disc that fits within the basin and is supported by a molded inner facing horizontal rib to create a wet/dry well and structural features present in a top surface of the basin and a cover for the basin to close said basin. Extension risers may be added to extend the height of the basin, wherein the extension risers contain many of the same structural features that are present in the basin.
A high water alarm system for a water containing or wastewater treatment system including a main body containing a generally cylindrical outer and inner wall, a bottom portion and an open top portion, a battery container secured within the main body portion, and a high water sensor secured through the main body, which sensor is connected to an alarm located within the system. Another embodiment adds a gas filter and a vent valve seal to the high water alarm system.
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high water detection device for a waste water and sewage removal system comprised of a self-contained tank and a pump for installing toilets below ground
A waste collection and disposal unit including a tank, a float-switch sensing system, and a grinder pump. The tank contains a contoured and sloping floor, a front section, a back section, two side sections and a one-piece lid, which is securable onto the other sections of the tank. The floor slopes downwardly from below the float-switch sensing system to below the grinder pump at an angle of at least about 5 degrees and is contoured in a downward curved arc between the front and back sections of the tank.
A water-powered sump pump including a chamber with a water supply inlet, wastewater inlet and a discharge outlet, wherein a venturi is secured within the chamber, and an elbow joint, including a wastewater exit portion and a wastewater entrance portions. This elbow joint is rotationally securable to the wastewater inlet of the chamber to permit securing of the water-powered sump pump in any desired orientation in relation to the sump. In one embodiment the wastewater inlet includes a cylindrical ingress portion with an upwardly facing ridge around a circumference thereof. The securing system of the elbow joint includes tabs on an inner surface of the exit portion of the elbow, each tab containing an inwardly extending rib which rib extends beyond the upwardly facing ridge on the ingress portion of the wastewater inlet when the elbow joint is secured onto the wastewater inlet.
F04F 5/10 - Jet pumps, i.e. devices in which fluid flow is induced by pressure drop caused by velocity of another fluid flow the inducing fluid being liquid displacing liquids, e.g. containing solids, or liquids and elastic fluids
F16L 27/08 - Adjustable jointsJoints allowing movement allowing adjustment or movement only about the axis of one pipe
F16L 37/098 - Couplings of the quick-acting type in which the connection between abutting or axially-overlapping ends is maintained by locking members combined with automatic locking by means of flexible hooks
A float tree for suspending floats within a basin system includes a rod portion, a cap section, movably affixed to the rod portion, and a spring provided between the cap section and the rod section. The spring provides force against the rod portion and the cap section. A first and second cap can be included to seat the spring between the cap section and the rod portion within the float tree.
G01F 23/58 - Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by floats using elements rigidly fixed to, and rectilinearly moving with, the floats as transmission elements using mechanically actuated indicating means
E03F 5/22 - Adaptations of pumping plants for lifting sewage
G01F 23/76 - Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by floats characterised by the construction of the float
A flexible, arc-shaped cord minder clip for securing power cords or float cords to piping or a float tree of a water, sewage, grinder or sump pump, wherein the degree measure of the arc of the clip is from about 55 to about 270 degrees, wherein the width of the clip is from about 0.5 inch to about 3 inches; and wherein secured to or a molded component of an outer surface of the clip around its circumference are one or more flexible, open c-shaped cord holders. Alternatively, the c-shaped cord holder may be formed as a component of the clip and may be structured to hold the cord against a surface of the piping or float tree.
A reversible grinder pump with cutter plate and cutter blade, wherein the cutter plate is attached to an inlet of the reversible grinder pump and is located adjacent to the cutter blade, wherein the cutter plate includes pairs of angled openings, wherein each of the pair of angled openings extends through the cutter plate and has a shape which is a mirror image of the other angled opening of the pair of angled openings, when viewed from above a surface of the cutter plate. The cutter blade of the reversible grinder pump contains a pair of triangular cross section, prism-shaped cutting edges, which are congruent to each other and reflective, extending in opposite directions from each other.
F04D 7/04 - Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts of centrifugal type the fluids being viscous or non-homogeneous
F04D 29/22 - Rotors specially for centrifugal pumps
B02C 18/00 - Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragmentsMincing machines or similar apparatus using worms or the like
A molded basin for use with a submersible sump, sewage or grinder pump. The molded construction of the basin permits design improvements to be incorporated into the basin including bolt down slots in a bottom flange of a bottom of the basin, a molded inner basin mounting surface for a float tree, a molded inner surface support mount to receive a bracket of a rail system used to raise and lower the pump within the basin, a disc that fits within the basin and is supported by a molded inner facing horizontal rib to create a wet/dry well and structural features present in a top surface of the basin and a cover for the basin to close said basin. Extension risers may be added to extend the height of the basin, wherein the extension risers contain many of the same structural features that are present in the basin.
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[ media composed of biologically active enzymes and microorganisms for filtration and biological treatment of water, waste water and sewage ] power-operated pumps, namely, sump, sewage, grinder, drain, well and water pumps electronic controls and electronic control panels, electronic switches and remote monitoring computer software and hardware equipment for water pumping systems [ installations for the treatment of water, waste water and sewage, namely, water filtration units and water filters ] sump basins, namely, non-metal in ground sewage and water
Pre-packaged water and sewerage pumping systems comprised of pumps and accessories, namely, lifting rail systems in the nature of metal rails, float switches to sense performance and control operation of pumps, alarms in the nature of alarm sensors, and controls in the nature of electronic control panels, sold as a unit
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Remote monitoring and control systems, namely, electrical controls, backup batteries and electric float sensors to sense performance and control operation of sump pumps and sewer pumps
A grinder pump basin system is provided which includes a basin; a cover plate; a bracket secured to the cover plate; and a grinder pump with cutter plate with openings and a cutter blade secured to the bracket above a bottom surface of the basin. The openings in the cutter plate have an unique shape which assists in the cutting of material which flows through an inlet of a grinder pump. The shape of the cutter blade cooperates with the openings in the cutter plate such that solids are forced between these respective components and thereby are efficiently cut into small pieces for passing through the openings and for discharge from the grinder pump basin system.
B02C 18/00 - Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragmentsMincing machines or similar apparatus using worms or the like
F04D 7/04 - Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts of centrifugal type the fluids being viscous or non-homogeneous
F04D 29/22 - Rotors specially for centrifugal pumps
E03F 5/22 - Adaptations of pumping plants for lifting sewage
06 - Common metals and ores; objects made of metal
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water, sewage, effluent or grinder pump lift out system, comprising primarily of metal rails and a discharge disconnect used with submersible pumps in wells, basins, or other sub-grade locations
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
19 - Non-metallic building materials
Goods & Services
sump, sewage, and drain pumps, constant pressure well pumps, submersible water pumps, residential and commercial booster pumps, grinder pumps, electric-driven jet pumps electronic warning alarms for detecting water, power controllers for usage with water supply installations, water level indicators for usage with water supply installations, automatic fluid regulators for usage with water supply installations sump basins, namely, non-metal in-ground sewage and water run-off basins
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Remote monitoring and control systems comprising electrical controls, backup batteries and float sensors for sump pumps and to sense performance and control operation of sump pumps and sewer pumps Monitoring and control services, namely, remote monitoring and controlling the performance of sump pumps and sewer pumps
A sealed and self-contained tankless water heater flushing system including a holding basin, a cover lid for the holding basin firmly securable and sealed liquid tight to the holding basin, a submersible pump contained within the holding basin, a submersible pump hose, securable from the submersible pump within the holding basin to a discharge opening in the cover of the holding basin, a filter system, securable within the holding basin to a filter opening contained in the cover lid, wherein the filter system includes a filter for filtering solid substances from the tankless water heater during a flushing process, a discharge hose for connecting the discharge opening to the water heater, and a filter hose for connecting the filter opening to the water heater.
A grinder pump basin system is provided which includes a basin; a cover plate; a bracket secured to the cover plate; and a grinder pump with cutter plate with openings and a cutter blade secured to the bracket above a bottom surface of the basin. The bracket includes a front portion, which prevents waste water from interacting adversely with the grinder pump when it enters the basin. A discharge system for the grinder pump is secured to an outlet of the grinder pump and includes a discharge pipe and a flexible discharge coupling. Flow directional jets are also provided in an elbow of the pump discharge system to direct waste water and solids away from the grinder pump.
B02C 23/36 - Adding fluid, other than for crushing or disintegrating by fluid energy the crushing or disintegrating zone being submerged in liquid
F04B 17/03 - Pumps characterised by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors driven by electric motors
F04B 39/14 - Provisions for readily assembling or disassembling
B02C 18/00 - Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragmentsMincing machines or similar apparatus using worms or the like
E03F 5/22 - Adaptations of pumping plants for lifting sewage
A pump is provided including a cutter plate disposed at a pump inlet including a plurality of holes. Multiple embodiments provide that the pump includes a rotatable cutter blade disposed substantially adjacent to the cutter plate. Embodiments include those wherein the plurality of holes are angled in a direction of rotation of the cutter blade. In some embodiments, the cutter blade has at least one relief hole and at least one cutting edge. Additional embodiments include those wherein a ring extends outward from the pump inlet for channeling material toward the pump inlet in a substantially perpendicular approach with respect to the cutter plate.
F04D 25/14 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation the unit being adapted for mounting in apertures and having shutters, e.g. automatically closed when not in use
A System and Method for Explosion-Proof Pump is provided that includes a component being mated to and sealed against an adjacent component. An embodiment provides that the component is a switch housing having a cavity formed therein. A switch is secured in the cavity and the adjacent component is selected from the group access plate and motor housing.
A wastewater treatment apparatus having a fixed film media apparatus having insertable high surface area polymer cartridges providing growth surfaces for autotrophic or heterotrophic bacteria and a protective shielding surface which isolates the biofilm from turbulence within the wastewater treatment system. A method of placement of said media apparatus within the aeration and/or clarifier section of the wastewater treatment apparatus.
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Sump, sewage, and drain pumps Electronic warning alarms for detecting water [ Installations for the treatment of water, waste water and sewage, namely, reverse osmosis filtration units, water neutralization units, ultraviolet sterilization units, water softening units, iron filtration units, upflow neutralizing units and replacement parts and fittings therefor; ] media for filtration and biological treatment of water, waste water, and sewage, namely, cartridge filtration units and filters Sump basins, namely, non-metal in-ground sewage [ and water run-off] basins
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
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[ Sump, sewage, and drain pumps ] Environmental installations for the treatment of [ runoff, sediments, ] sanitary waste and sewage, and parts and fittings thereof in relation to the treatment of environmental and sanitary waste and sewage Sump basins, namely, non-metal in-ground sewage [ and water run-off ] basins Consultancy services in relation to the treatment of water, wastewater and sewage
Wastewater treatment system comprised of tanks, pipes, controllers and pumps sold as a unit, for treating fluid discharge for industrial, commercial and residential use
06 - Common metals and ores; objects made of metal
07 - Machines and machine tools
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
11 - Environmental control apparatus
19 - Non-metallic building materials
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Sump basins of metal. Sump, sewage and drain pumps (machines); pneumatic water supply systems; pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical controllers and regulators (parts of machines) for water supply systems; water pumps (machines); electric-driven jet pumps. Automatic controllers for aforesaid water supply systems, indicator units (electric). Water supply systems; water conditioning equipment. Sump basins, not of metal.
Sump pump and attachments thereto, namely, a sensing device for sensing the difference between oil and water present in a vault or sump and an actuating switch for said pump
Component used in a waste water treatment system, namely a distribution box in the nature of a separator for the distribution of waste water flowing from a gravity-fed septic tank
Component used in a waste water treatment system, namely a distribution box in the nature of a separator for the distribution of waste water flowing from a gravity-fed septic tank
