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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1976
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
James W Mink, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01W / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73171 ;
Abstract
A rotary bucket wheel is positioned beneath and communicates with a water lumn of collected rain. When the water column exceeds a certain height, as determined by an electronic probe circuit, the bucket wheel is actuated whereby a predetermined volume of water is removed from the bottom of the water column.