Plastic underground tank

• US 7,637,386 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2007
• Issued: 12/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Manfred Roth
• Original Assignee: Manfred Roth
• Inventors: Roth, Manfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Stashick; Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA
• Application Number:
  US11/649,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20070158351A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,090 Days
• Field of Search: 220/567.1, 220/501, 220/555, 220/564, 220/565, 220/601, 220/4.13
• US Class Current: 220/567.1
• CPC Class Codes: E03B 3/03 Special vessels for collecting or storing rain-water for use in the household, e.g. water-butts containers for storage, in general, B65D
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 11/00 Cesspools emptying cesspools E03F7/00; features relating to treatment of sewage C02F
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 20/108 Rainwater harvesting

Abstract

A tank has a pair of elongated, generally parallel, and hollow plastic chambers having longitudinally extending side walls and closed ends, and a transverse plastic connector tube having one end connected to and opening into one of the elongated chambers and an opposite end connected to and opening into the other of the elongated chambers.

Claims

1. A tank comprising:

a pair of elongated, generally parallel, and hollow plastic chambers having longitudinally extending side walls and closed ends; and

two transverse plastic connector tubes extending parallel to but at a spacing from each other between the longitudinal chambers and each having one end connected to and opening into one of the elongated chambers and an opposite end connected to and opening into the other of the elongated chambers; and

a web connected to and extending between the tubes.

2. The tank defined in claim 1 wherein the chambers are of round cross-sectional shape.

3. The tank defined in claim 2 wherein the tubes are of round cross-sectional shape.

4. The tank defined in claim 2 wherein the chambers are generally cylindrical and have a diameter of at most 150 cm.

5. The tank defined in claim 1 wherein the walls and ends of the chambers are of single thickness.

6. The tank defined in claim 1 wherein the chambers and the tubes are of generally the same cross-sectional size.

7. The tank defined in claim 6 wherein each tube is formed with an upwardly open access hole.

8. The tank defined in claim 1 wherein the web is also connected to and extends between the chambers.

9. The tank defined in claim 8 wherein the web is a planar plastic plate integrally joined to the tubes and chambers.

10. The tank defined in claim 9 wherein the web lies in a plane including center axes of the chambers and tubes.

11. The tank defined in claim 1 wherein each of the longitudinal chambers is formed by a pair of substantially identical end sections each connected via a respective such tube connector to another such end section, and a central extension tube fixed between the end sections.

12. The tank defined in claim 11 wherein each of the end sections has a flange and each of the tube sections has a flange fixed to a respective one of the end-section flanges.

13. The tank defined in claim 12 wherein the end sections and central extension tube are cylindrical and of generally the same diameter.

14. The tank defined in claim 1 wherein the longitudinal chambers are centered on horizontal longitudinal axes.