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US 5,392,814 AGranted
Water well rehabilitation apparatus
AssigneeBrotcke Engineering Company, Inc.
InventorsPaul Brotcke, Joseph Foppe
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Abstract
A vehicle employed in the rehabilitation of water wells comprises a 3,000 gallon capacity tank and a 135 horsepower hydraulic pump connected in fluid communication with the tank through a network of fluid conducting conduits providing an apparatus that transports all of the necessary equipment to a water well location for rehabilitation of the well.
Claims18
A well rehabilitation apparatus comprising:
- a wheeled vehicle;
- a tank supported on the wheeled vehicle, the tank having an interior volume for containing liquid;
- a pump supported on the wheeled vehicle;
- and,
- a network of liquid conducting conduits interconnecting the pump and the tank interior volume, the network comprising means for drawing a liquid from the tank interior volume and circulating the liquid through the pump and back into the tank interior volume, means for drawing a liquid from the tank interior volume and directing the liquid through the pump and into a well separate from the wheeled vehicle, and means for drawing a liquid from the tank interior volume and directing the liquid through the pump and discharging the liquid from the wheeled vehicle and away from the well.
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A well rehabilitation apparatus comprising:
- a wheeled vehicle;
- a tank supported on the wheeled vehicle, the tank having an interior volume for containing a liquid;
- a pump supported on the wheeled vehicle;
- and,
- a network of liquid conducting conduits interconnecting the pump and the tank interior volume, the network including a first conduit extending between the tank and the pump and connecting the tank and pump in fluid communication, a second conduit extending from the pump to a manifold and connecting the pump and manifold in fluid communication, and the manifold including a plurality of branch conduits, the plurality of branch conduits including an output conduit adapted to provide fluid communication from the manifold to a well separate from the wheeled vehicle, and an input conduit adapted to provide fluid communication from a well to the manifold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.