Method of cleaning the inlet to a thruster while in operation
OwnerBenton Frederick Baughinventor
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Abstract
A method for the prevention or remediation of flooding waters in a geographic area using one or more thrusters to increase the velocity of a portion of the water in a channel draining the flooding waters away from the geographic area, mixing the portion of the accelerated waters back in to the remainder of the waters in the channel thereby increasing the average velocity of the waters in the drainage system and increasing the rate of removal of the flooding waters from the geographic area, the thrusters having the one or more inlets approximately at ninety degrees from the centerline of the thruster and cleaning the thruster inlets by reversing the flow through the thruster while the flooding waters are still passing the thruster.
Claims29
A method for cleaning the inlet for one or more thrusters increasing the velocity of flowing waters in a channel in a first direction comprising
- using said one or more thrusters to draw a portion of said waters into one or more inlets of said one or more thrusters and increasing the velocity of said portion of said waters in a first direction within said one or more thrusters and sending said portion of said waters with said increased velocity out of one or more outlets,
- said one or more thrusters having a housing with a centerline,
- mixing said portion of said waters with said increased velocity back into the remainder of said waters to increase the average velocity of said waters in said first direction,
- and cleaning one or more of said one or more inlets of debris without slowing said flowing water in said channel by reversing the flow in said one or more thrusters in said first direction by drawing said portion of said waters into said one or more thrusters at proximately ninety degrees to said first direction and discharging said portion of said waters through said inlets at proximately ninety degrees from said first direction.
A method for the prevention or remediation of flooding waters in a geographic area comprising
- using one or more thrusters to draw a portion of said waters into one or more inlets to increase the velocity of said portion of said waters and send said portion of waters out of one or more outlets in a first direction,
- said one or more thrusters having a housing with a centerline,
- mixing said portion of said waters back in to the remainder of said waters in said geographic area increasing the average velocity of said waters in said geographic area in said first direction from an unassisted velocity to an assisted velocity thereby increasing the rate of removal of said waters from said geographic area, and
- cleaning one or more inlets to said one or more thrusters of debris without slowing said flowing water in said geographic area in said first direction by reversing the flow in said one or more thrusters by drawing a portion of said waters into said one or more thrusters at proximately ninety degrees to said first direction and discharging said portion of said waters through said one or more inlets at proximately ninety degrees from said first direction.
A method for the prevention or remediation of flooding waters in a channel or geographic area comprising
- cleaning one or more inlets to said thrusters while said flooding waters are in motion relative to said one or more thrusters,
- using said one or more thrusters to increase the velocity of a portion of said flooding waters within said one or more thrusters and sending said portion of waters out of one or more outlets,
- said one or more thrusters having a housing with a centerline,
- mixing said portion of said flooding waters back into the remainder of said flooding waters in said channel or geographic area increasing the average velocity of said flooding waters in said channel or geographic area thereby increasing the rate of removal of said flooding waters from said channel or geographic area, and
- said thrusters having said one or more inlets proximately at ninety degrees from said centerline.
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