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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2011
Mark Hayes Bolan, Princeton, TX (US);
Kenneth Charles Phelps, McKinney, TX (US);
Donnie Wayne Alexander, Princeton, TX (US);
John Baxter Horton, Jr., Sachse, TX (US);
Jeremy Scott Smith, Balch Springs, TX (US);
Michael Larry Culbreath, McKinney, TX (US);
Mark Hayes Bolan, Princeton, TX (US);
Kenneth Charles Phelps, McKinney, TX (US);
Donnie Wayne Alexander, Princeton, TX (US);
John Baxter Horton, Jr., Sachse, TX (US);
Jeremy Scott Smith, Balch Springs, TX (US);
Michael Larry Culbreath, McKinney, TX (US);
Incon-Trol Corp., McKinney, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus having flotation ballasts, a flotation platform and on the flotation platform, an intake equipment, such as a screen, check valve and/or pump intake and a coupling for a discharge pipe. In an embodiment of the present invention comprises, there are a plurality of substantially symmetrical flotation ballasts, each having a ballast chamber. The composition of the flotation ballast may be made of a material having a density appropriate for the fluid in which it is to be submerged. The method includes the steps of using an apparatus as herein described to ascend and descend intake equipment.