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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2009
Trygrve J Lundquist, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Patricia M. Compas, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Trygrve J Lundquist, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Patricia M. Compas, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
California Polytechnic Corporation, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Abstract
A lightweight water treatment system which can be easily distributed and employed by disaster survivors for treating locally available freshwater sources. The water treatment system includes an internal storage volume for maintaining a predetermined volume of water, a water fill port in communication with the internal storage volume provided at a first end of the elongated container for receiving the predetermined volume of water, a sealing member disposed at about the first end of the elongated container for maintaining the volume of water within the internal storage volume, a second end of the elongated container for receiving sediment settling out of the predetermined volume of water and a discharge port disposed superjacent to the second conically-shaped end for controllably releasing at least a portion of the water maintained within the internal storage volume of the elongated container.