Device For Evacuating Liquids
OwnerMark E. Wingeinventor
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Abstract
A portable device for evacuating liquids from areas where pooling occurs, or for places where pooled spilled liquids require removal, which can be mounted to a vehicle, and is operable by a single person, and which is characterized by a novel pump housing and novel straining means. An example for the use of the present invention is the removal of standing water from a sand trap on a golf course.
Claims25
A self-contained portable apparatus for evacuating a body of liquid to a selected location, said apparatus being removably secured on a carrier connected to a transporter and having a drive means:
- wherein said apparatus comprises:
- a housing removably secured to said carrier, forming a chamber for a pump;
- said pump having an inlet and an outlet enclosed in said housing chamber;
- a liquid intake means connected to said housing in flow communication with said pump inlet;
- and
- a liquid ejection means connected to said housing in flow communication with said pump outlet;
- whereby said body of liquid may be drained by placing said carrier in proximity to said body, adjusting said liquid intake means to place it in flow communication with said body, adjusting said liquid ejection means to eject said liquid from said pump to a selected location, and operating said pump to drain liquid from said body and discharge said liquid through said liquid ejection means to said selected location.
A grounds maintenance device for evacuating a body of liquid, in particular, water from a sand trap bunker on a golf course, to a selected location, said device being removably secured on a carrier connected to to a rake vehicle and having drive means:
- wherein said device comprises:
- a housing having a chamber;
- a pump having an inlet and an outlet enclosed
- in said housing chamber;
- a liquid intake means connected to said housing in flow communication with said pump inlet;
- and
- a liquid ejection means connected to said housing in flow communication with said pump outlet;
- whereby said body may be drained by placing said carrier in proximity to said body, adjusting said liquid intake means to place it in flow communication with said body, adjusting said liquid ejection means to eject liquid from said pump to a selected location, and operating said
- pump to drain liquid from said body and discharge said liquid through said
- liquid ejection means to said selected location.
A method for the draining a body of liquid, in particular water from a sand trap bunker comprising the steps of:
- a. transporting a liquid evacuation device with an intake means and a discharge means with a transporter to a flooded sand trap bunker;
- and
- b. incrementally lowering said intake means below said water level within said flooded sand trap bunker with a carrier connected to said transporter;
- and
- c. adjusting said discharge means so as to direct the flow of said water to be drained;
- and
- d. activating said liquid evacuation device to drain said liquid from the flooded sand trap bunker;
- and
- e. monitoring said water level to incrementally lower said intake means in response to the decreasing water level;
- and
- f. raising said intake means of said liquid evacuation device from said flooded sand trap upon achievement of the desired level of liquid removal.
- g. treating and conditioning said evacuated sand trap bunker with a rake.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.