Anti pollution waterway device and process

• US 3,884,810 A
• Filed: 07/13/1972
• Issued: 05/20/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Wassily Smyrnow
• Original Assignee: Wassily Smyrnow
• Inventors: Smyrnow, Wassily
• Primary Examiner(s): Adee, John
• Application Number:
  US05/271,244
• Time in Patent Office: 1,041 Days
• Field of Search: 210/65,170,242 61/1R
• US Class Current: 210/170.1
• CPC Class Codes: E02B 1/003 Mechanically induced gas or liquid streams in seas, lakes or water-courses for forming weirs or breakwaters; making or keeping water surfaces free from ice, aerating or circulating water, e.g. screens of air-bubbles against sludge formation or salt water entry, pump-assisted water circulation moving sediments E02B3/023; for ice breakers B63B35/08; aerating or circulating water in fish-tanks A01K63/042; purification of waste water with addition of air C02F; distributing gases in liquids in general B01F23/20
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 210/923 using mechanical means, e.g. skimmers, pump

Abstract

Equipment and process of use in causing the formation of subsurface and surface typically river water turbulence of a suspended-pollutant-coagulating type of turbulence extending continually along at an angle to and across the direction of flow transversely of flowing water such as that of a river, such that an obliquely angled barrier is formed across the width of the river to make water-suspended pollutants become non-suspended and to rise to the surface and to slide angularly along the obliquely angled barrier on the water'"'"''"'"'s surface in a downstream direction, and collecting the surface pollutants at the downstream end of the barrier, preferably the turbulence being caused by a directing of bubbles or aeration air upwardly from about the waterway bottom and also concurrently directing upwardly in juxtaposition to the bubbles portions of deep flowing water to enhance the pollutant-removing turbulence, the sea-bed equipment being provided in serially-linkable unit lengths easily laid and linked and individual segments being easily replacable in maintenance thereof.

Claims

1. An improved anti-pollution system for a waterway having a normal direction of flow and carrying a certain amount of pollutants in said flow comprising in combination:

a rigid, elongated member having a weight substantially greater than the water it displaced disposed across the bottom of said waterway, a conduit carried by said member along its longitudinal length, mounting means to securely affix said member to said bottom surface at an angle from about 15* to 75* to said direction of flow, a plurality of air escapement perforations spaced along the length of said conduit, said member having an upper surface having an upstream edge and a downstream edge and said upper surface angles upwardly from said upstream edGe to said downstream edge so as to deflect water moving in said normal direction of flow in an upward direction, pump means providing air to said conduit at a pressure sufficient to cause a rising plane of turbulence from said conduit to the surface of the waterway where a line of turbulence is formed having an upstream end and a downstream end and of sufficient pressure to cause pollutants in said flow to move toward said downstream end, and means for collecting said pollutants at said downstream end.

2. The invention of claim 1 wherein said member includes a downstream surface extending downwardly from said upper edge and said perforations of said conduit are disposed in said downstream surface immediately below said downstream edge.

3. The invention of claim 1 wherein said member includes a base member and means supporting said upper surface in spaced relationship to said base member permitting water to flow therebetween.

4. The invention of claim 1 in which said member means includes an arcuate surface angling upwardly from about a horizontal plane in an upstream direction and terminating in an upright plane in a downstream direction adjacent said perforations such that portions of said downstream direction-moving waterway water coming into contact with and in the vicinity of said surface is directable upwardly toward a water surface of said waterway water.

5. The invention of claim 1, in which said mounting means includes a supporting spacer-base means securable of said conduit means to a waterway bottom and spacing said conduit means from a waterway bottom by a predetermined spaced amount sufficient for a portion of deep waterway water to flow between said conduit means and a waterway bottom to which the spacer-base is securable.

6. The invention of claim 5, in which said conduit means includes a plurality of interconnectable corrosion-resistant pipes interconnectable in series with one another.

7. The invention of claim 6, in which said interconnectable pipes are detachably interconnectable to one another for series flow therethrough and detachably mountable on said supporting spacer-base means.

8. The invention of claim 1 in which said collection means includes a separate buoyant debris screen collector and in a further downstream flow an oil-collecting means.