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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:
Mar. 06, 1979
Filed:
May. 03, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eugene B Nebeker, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sergio E Rodriguez, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Paul G Mikoalj, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Scientific Associates, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210 84 ; 2102 / ; 210D / ;
Abstract
Material such as an oil slick floating on a body of liquid, ordinarily water, is collected by a mechanism comprising an impeller beneath the liquid surface and a rotatable tubular element which together form a free vortex as the surface of the body of liquid that draws the material into a vortex pocket from which it can be pumped.