Water softener brine tank salt bag splitter

A water softener brine tank salt bag splitter for a residential or office building water softener brine tank having a thin laterally flexible sidewall extending around a tank perimeter to form a tank interior that holds salt crystals and water or brine in a lower interior portion and contains humid air and salty vapor in an upper interior portion, the sidewall extending upwardly and having an open upper end with opposed wall sides and a tank width or diameter, each of the opposed wall sides having an outside wall surface, the brine tank having a tank lid with a thin laterally flexible downwardly extending rim adapted to snuggly engage the outside wall surface of the upper end of the sidewall to form an air seal around the upper end of the tank perimeter to close the open upper end of the sidewall and prevent the escape of the humid air and salty vapor;

• the lid being removable to add salt crystals from a salt bag, the salt bag having a salt bag weight, said water softener brine tank salt bag splitter comprising:
• a plastic rod assembly having a plastic elongated support beam and first and second plastic mounting brackets, said beam having first and second opposed beam ends, each of said mounting brackets being connected to one of said opposed beam ends, said support beam and said mounting brackets having a set assembly length;
• a plastic elongated cutting blade attached to and extending upwardly from said elongated support beam, said blade being adapted for positioning over the tank interior;
• each of said mounting brackets having a downwardly extending main internal portion and a looped upper end with a downwardly extending external portion, each of said looped upper ends being adapted to secure over and around the upper end of one of the opposed wall sides, each of said external portions having inner and outer bracket surfaces, and each of said main internal portions being adapted for securement to said support beam;
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• wherein said set assembly length is equal to the width or diameter of the upper end of the tank sidewall to join the opposed wall sides and laterally stiffen the upper end of the tank sidewall and support the salt bag weight when the tank lid is removed, and wherein said inner bracket surface of each of said external portions snuggly engages the outside wall surface of one of the opposed wall sides, and the downwardly extending rim of the lid snuggly engages the outside surface of the upper end of the sidewall and said outer bracket surface of said looped upper ends of said mounting brackets to form the air seal around the upper end of the tank perimeter and mounting brackets to prevent the escape of the humid air and salty vapor from the brine tank when the lid is secured.