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US 5,033,159 AGranted
Method of cleaning up spilled oil
OwnerPaul Whilden, Jr., Paul Whilden, IIIinventors
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Abstract
This invention provides a process for recovery of oil from non-oleophilic areas and surfaces such as rocks, beaches and shorelines by the use of hand-held vacuum nozzles connected to flexible tubing conveying the recovered oil to a first vessel from which the oil is transferred under pressure to a second vessel serving as a storage and transfer vessel to a third vessel which takes the oil to a recovery facility.
Claims1
An apparatus for removing oil from a shoreline, comprising
- a first vessel,
- means on said vessel for storing oil,
- a flexible tubing connected at one end to said storing means,
- a collection nozzle connected to the other end of the flexible tubing,
- means for creating vacuum in said flexible tubing, to enable said nozzle to collect oil from said shoreline,
- a second vessel situated seaward from said first vessel, and
- a conduit extending between said first and second vessels for transferring collected oil from said first vessel to said second vessel.
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