Water heater leak collector
OwnerWillard J. Bairdinventor
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Abstract
An auxiliary appliance for collecting water that leaks from a water heater and the like that is mounted thereon. This device includes a collector base that has an upper surface, a lower surface, and a thin, strip wall that extends, in an upright fashion, along the periphery of the collector base. A plurality of appliance supports and a plurality of collector base supports are arrayed and affixed to the upper collector surface and lower collector surface, respectively. The device contains a collector base orifice disposed therein and is connected to a draining means, such that water received from a target appliance is removed, flowing out of the device to a suitable drain.
Claims8
In a water leak collecting apparatus for appliances such as a water heater or the like and adapted to be mounted atop an underlying support surface, the improvement comprising:
- a collector member including a base having a centrally disposed opening, a peripheral wall bounding said base and extending upwardly therefrom, inclined upper and lower faces on said base extending downwardly and inwardly from said peripheral wall toward said opening,
- a plurality of separate unitary spaced apart support elements extending through said base and spaced from said peripheral wall, each said support element including an upper surface disposed above said base inclined upper face and an integral lower surface disposed in a plane beneath said base inclined lower face, whereby
- following disposition of said plurality of support element lower surfaces upon an underlying support surface, an appliance disposed atop said support element upper surfaces is fully and directly supported by engagement of said support elements upon the underlying surface without said base being supported by its underlying support surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.