Water-tight sump-pump basin cover back-up device

• US 8,474,477 B1
• Filed: 06/05/2008
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Edward P. Jr. Melisz
• Original Assignee: Edward P. Jr. Melisz
• Inventors: Melisz, Edward P. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): FOX, JOHN C
• Application Number:
  US12/133,794
• Time in Patent Office: 1,853 Days
• Field of Search: 137/363, 137/364, 137/371, 137/565.337, 417/2, 417/62, 417/426, 521/695
• US Class Current: 137/363
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 29/12 Manhole shafts; Other inspection or access chambers; Accessories therefor for underground tanks B65D90/10; for sewerage E03F5/02 ; climbing irons or ladders E06C9/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6991 Ground supporting enclosure

Abstract

A watertight, multi-sectioned, sump-pump basin cover back-up device made of a first cover section defining an outer-rim having a central aperture for accepting a water tightly sealable second cover section having at least one opening therethrough for accepting a water-tightly sealable discharge pipe, another water-tight, uncoverable, covered aperture for drainage of water from the floor adjacent to the sump-pump basin into the basin only when the water-tight cover is removed, and an auxiliary discharge pipe having a predetermined height, providing for said pipe to function as a relief valve. The device fixedly or detachably attachable to a sump pump basin rim, reducing or eliminating sump-pump cavity overflow flooding, while retarding the escape of pump noise, odor, and gases known to emanate from sump-pump basins.

Claims

1. A sump-pump basin cover, comprising:

a water-tight, impermeable, non-mechanical, sump-pump basin cover, constructed for being water-tightly sealed using a gasket (18c) directly to a floor surrounding a sump-pump basin opening, further comprising,

a first aperture through said cover to receive and engage in a water-tight manner a vertically oriented discharge pipe through which water in the sump-pump basin is pumped by a sump-pump to an outside drain providing for a water-tightly sealed water-tight sump-pump basin cover back-up device that prevents water in the sump-pump basin from flooding the floor adjacent to the sump-pump basin, while retarding the escape of pump noise, odor, and radon and other gases that are known to emanate from sump-pump basins, and

a second aperture (16c) extending through said cover, said cover and said second aperture structured to be at or just below the floor surface, said second aperture having a removable water-tight cover (16d) so as to provide for drainage of water from the floor about the sump-pump basin into the sump-pump basin when, and only when, the water-tight cover (16d) is removed, and

said cover comprising a first (14) and a second (12) cover section, said first section being independently removable from said sump-pump basin to provide access to the interior thereof,

said second cover section (12) having a first cover section receiving aperture (12b) located therethrough for receiving and being water-tightly sealed to said first cover (14) section.

2. The sump-pump basin cover, as recited in claim 1, wherein said first aperture for the passage of the discharge pipe is in said second section.

3. The sump-pump basin cover as recited in claim 1, wherein said first aperture for the passage of the discharge pipe is in said first section.

4. The sump-pump basin cover as recited in claim 3, wherein said second section is functionally constructed to be detachably attachable to the recessed rim of the sump-pump basin opening in the concrete floor or to be fixedly attached to the sump-pump basin opening in the concrete floor.

5. The sump-pump basin cover as recited in claim 3, further comprising a water alarm as a safeguard against a pump failure.

6. The sump-pump basin cover as recited in claim 1, further comprising an auxiliary discharge pipe functionally connected to an auxiliary power sump-pump operatively situated within said sump-pump basin.

7. The sump-pump basin cover as recited in claim 6, wherein said auxiliary discharge pipe is made of transparent material to monitor the level of the water or of an non-transparent material, if desired.

8. The sump-pump basin cover as recited in claim 7, wherein said auxiliary discharge pipe has a predetermined height, providing for said pipe to function as a relief valve.

9. The sump-pump basin cover as recited in claim 1 further comprising a siphoning port.