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US 2009/0014380 A1Published application
Apparatus, systems, and methods for distributing effluent in mound elimination units and other drainfield installations
OwnerRandall J. HOUCKinventor
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Abstract
In an effluent treatment system, a distribution grid comprises a distribution member for passing effluent initially horizontally through an internal chamber and out of laterally-extending distribution arms communicating with the chamber. Prefabricated filter media units are placed under the distribution member and the arms so that effluent may then trickle generally vertically through the filter media.
Claims12
A distribution grid for use in dispersing effluent in a treatment system, the distribution grid comprising:
- an elongated, enclosed distribution member having sides defining an internal chamber, the distribution member having an inlet end for receiving effluent into the internal chamber and a perforated bottom side conforming in shape to a first elongated enclosed filter media unit across which the distribution member is horizontally installed;
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- plural effluent distribution arms extending laterally from a first vertical side of the distribution member, one end of the distribution arms communicating with the internal chamber and having perforations therein for passing effluent to filter media underneath the distribution arms.
A distribution grid for distributing effluent comprising:
- a primary distribution member having a front end for receiving fluid and a pair of sidewalls with each sidewall having a plurality of openings spaced longitudinally along the sidewall;
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- a plurality of lateral distribution arms with means for distributing fluid and an end attached to the primary distribution member at a corresponding opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.