Pump guard protective sleeve
OwnerDannon Appleyardinventor
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Abstract
The invention disclosed is a sump basin protective sleeve that replaces the use of common gravel as a filtering medium around sump pump basins. Disclosed is a protective sleeve having an inner layer and outer layer made of filtering microfiber whereby the inner layer and the outer layer are joined to each other whereby a geosynthetic aggregate is installed in between the inner layer and outer layer and cell pockets formed to evenly disperse the aggregate and also to provide a plurality of drain line entrances by cutting into a desired cell pocket to install a drain line without disturbing the aggregate contained in the remaining cell pockets.
Claims15
A sump basin protective sleeve, comprising:
- a fabric outer layer and a fabric inner layer such that said outer layer corresponds dimensionally to said inner layer and said outer layer and inner layer are joined to each other to form the protective sleeve such that an interior cavity is formed between the outer layer and the inner layer;
- a geosynthetic aggregate installed into the interior cavity;
- cell pockets formed along the length and width of the protective sleeve such that a portion of the geosynthetic aggregate is contained within each said cell pocket;
- a junction whereby one end of the protective sleeve is joined to an opposite end of the protective sleeve such that the protective sleeve can envelop a sump basin;
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- a bottom panel joined to the protective sleeve.
A sump basin protective sleeve, comprising:
- a fabric sleeve adapted to be installed around a sump pump basin whereby said fabric sleeve has an inner layer and an outer layer;
- a geosynthetic aggregate located inside the fabric sleeve;
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- a bottom panel joined to the protective sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.