Wastewater flow diverter

• US 7,744,756 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2008
• Issued: 06/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Soil Horizons, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Soil Horizons, Inc.
• Inventors: Davis, John R. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): LILLIS, EILEEN DUNN
• Application Number:
  US12/169,289
• Publication Number:
  US 20100006489A1
• Time in Patent Office: 721 Days
• Field of Search: 210/170.08, 210/532.2, 405/36, 405/40, 405/41, 405/43, 405/45, 405/47, 405/51
• US Class Current: 210/170.08
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/006 Water distributors either inside a treatment tank or directing the water to several treatment tanks; Water treatment plants incorporating these distributors, with or without chemical or biological tanks for settling tanks B01D21/24
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/286 including two or more steps
• CPC Class Codes: E02B 13/02 Closures for irrigation conduits
• CPC Class Codes: E02B 2201/50 Devices for sequentially discharging constant liquid quantities, e.g. into different irrigation channels
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 1/002 with disposal into the ground, e.g. via dry wells

Abstract

An apparatus for diverting wastewater in septic system comprises a top, a side adjoining and extending downwardly from the top, the top and the side form an inner volume and a partially open bottom. The bottom can be fully open. A first opening extends upwardly from the partially open bottom. A second opening, having a perimeter, is also on the side. The apparatus can be placed at outlet end of a trench to receive the trench pipe. The first opening, the open bottom and the inner volume permit the apparatus to be placed over a pipe without adjustments or modifications.

Claims

1. A wastewater flow diverter for installation in a septic system including a septic tank, first and second trenches, first and second trench pipes, and a transport pipe, comprising:

a top;

first and second sides adjoining and extending downwardly from said top, the top, the sides and at least a partially open bottom forming an inner volume;

a first opening on the first side for interconnection to a trench pipe the first opening extending upwardly from the partially open bottom;

a second opening on the second side for interconnection to the transport pipe; and

wherein the septic tank is interconnected to the first trench pipe and the transport pipe is interconnected to the second trench pipe.

2. The wastewater flow diverter of claim 1, wherein at least a part of the second opening is positioned at a distance farther from the at least partially open bottom than the top of the first opening.

3. The wastewater flow diverter of claim 1, having a fully open bottom.

4. The wastewater flow diverter of claim 1, wherein the top and the side is a single structure.

5. The wastewater flow diverter of claim 1, wherein the first opening is capable of receiving a trench pipe having a height, and the height of the first opening is greater than the trench pipe height.

6. A septic tank system comprising:

a septic tank;

first and second trenches, each said trench having a first and second;

a trench pipe in each said trench, each trench pipe having a first and second end

a septic pipe connecting the septic tank to the first end of the first trench pipe;

a transport pipe having a first and second end;

a flow diverter between the first trench and the second trench, the flow diverter having a top, bottom and at least first and second sides, the sides adjoining and extending downwardly from the top, the top and the sides forming an inner volume that is at least partially open at the bottom, a first opening on the first side, said first opening extending upwardly from the partially open bottom, a second opening on the second side;

the first opening of the flow diverter placed over and connecting with the trench pipe at the second end of the first trench;

the first end of the transport pipe inserted into and connected to the second opening of the flow diverter; and

the second end of the transport pipe connecting to the first end of the second trench.

7. The septic tank system of claim 6, wherein at least part of the second opening is positioned on the second side at a distance farther from the open bottom than the top of the first opening.

8. The septic tank system of claim 6, wherein the flow diverter further comprises a fully open bottom.

9. The septic tank system of claim 6, wherein the top, first side and second sides of the flow diverter form a single structure.

10. The septic tank system of claim 6, wherein the first opening is capable of receiving the trench pipe having a height, and the height of the first opening is greater than the trench pipe height.

11. An apparatus for diverting wastewater in a septic tank system comprising:

a flow diverter, a first trench and a second trench, a first trench pipe in the first trench and a second trench pipe in the second trench a septic pipe between a septic tank and the first trench pipe the flow diverter between the first and said second trenches, a transport pipe between the flow diverter and the second trench;

a means for receiving the first trench pipe in the flow diverter the first trench pipe capable of having more than one elevation above the first trench; and

a means for accumulating wastewater in said flow diverter and passing the wastewater into the transport pipe.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the flow diverter comprises a single structure.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the flow diverter comprises a partially open bottom.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the flow diverter comprises an open bottom.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the flow diverter comprises a means for positioning the flow diverter in a first trench, said flow diverter capable of receiving the trench pipe and the transport pipe.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein a transferring means comprises wastewater flowing to the second trench through the outlet opening on the flow diverter, the outlet opening positioned a side of the flow diverter to discharge wastewater accumulating in the flow diverter.