Aquarium
AssigneeFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
InventorsGünter R. Fuhr, Heiko Zimmermann
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Abstract
The invention relates to an aquarium with a pressure-tight aquarium tank, which during operation is filled with a liquid, and with a pressure-resistant rising pipe, which opens out into the aquarium tank and is intended for producing an increased hydrostatic pressure in the aquarium tank by a liquid column located in the rising pipe.
Claims15
An aquarium comprising a plurality of pressure-resistant aquarium containers, which in operation are filled with liquid, further comprising a pressure-resistant riser pipe which opens into the aquarium containers in order to create a raised hydrostatic pressure in the aquarium containers by a liquid column standing in the riser pipe, wherein
- (a) the aquarium containers are arranged underground,
- (b) the riser pipe extends over at least part of the length thereof underground,
- (c) the aquarium containers are arranged at different elevations,
- (d) the riser pipe extends, for at least part of the length thereof, upwardly in or on a mountain,
- (e) the riser pipe is subdivided into successive pipeline sections by a plurality of shut-off valves arranged spaced apart along the riser pipe,
- (f) the riser pipe extends over at least part of the length thereof through an underground shaft,
- (g) a plurality of galleries branch off from the shaft,
- (h) at least one of the aquarium containers is arranged in one of the galleries,
- (i) a blind shaft extends upwardly from one of the galleries, and
- (j) at least one of the aquarium containers is arranged in the blind shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.