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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:
Nov. 25, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernard J Miller, Lafayette Hills, PA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
417 442 ; 417 443 ; 417 33 ; 4504 ; 361 23 ;
Abstract
A safety device for avoiding entrapment at a water reservoir drain by using a vacuum operated switch to interrupt power to the reservoir pump whenever a blockage occurs. In addition, a manual reset switch requires human intervention to re-activate the reservoir pump once the blockage condition is removed.