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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:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael J Kaufman, Boswell, PA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
137 99 ; 13756512 ; 13756535 ; 13762547 ; 417440 ; 417375 ; 4174773 ; 4174776 ; 4174777 ; 141100 ; 141105 ;
Abstract
The invention is a water wheel supplying energy to a pump. The pump will typically be used to apply chemical treatments to the water stream. Some examples of chemicals to be added are acids or bases to bring the pH to an acceptable level, precipitation aids for suspending metal out of water, coagulants to aid in filtering dissolved solids out of water, flocculants to aid in filtering dissolved ions out of water, chlorine, or coloring to prevent growth of algae.