The present disclosure relates to a device for extracting foreign matter in a fish tank and, more particularly, to a device for extracting foreign matter in a fish tank, wherein excrement of and food for fish, remaining in the fish tank, may be removed effectively without a water exchange process.
In general, a fish tank or an aquarium is made of transparent glass or acrylic so that the inside can be seen, and is used to keep fish in by putting aquarium sand or/and ornaments at the bottom of the tank and filling the tank with water.
In the process of feeding and keeping fish in a fish tank, after a certain period of time, leftover uneaten fish food or fish excrement accumulates at the bottom of the tank, and when these wasteful products decompose by bacteria, toxic substances such as ammonia, nitrous acid, and nitrate are released and dissolved in the water, which causes the fish to be stressed or killed by poisoning.
In order to prevent this, the inside of a fish tank must be cleaned periodically, and a pipette dropper or siphon is mainly used for cleaning. Yet, the pipette dropper or manual siphon is cumbersome because a user has to continuously press a pump, and a drip tray is required for waste discharge, and since a small or large amount of water is discharged, replenishment water is needed after cleaning work. In the case of an electric siphon, fine foreign matter may not be filtered out since the electric siphon uses a filter made in the form of a mesh, and the filter is quickly clogged due to its small surface area.
Korean Patent No. 10-1271141 (hereinafter referred to as “cited invention”) discloses an aquarium cleaner involving a technique that fills a body of the cleaner with air and opens a check valve to allow air to be discharged and at the same time to allow water and foreign matter to flow into the body, and then only filtered water is discharged out of the body through an outlet.
According to the cited invention, foreign matter remaining at the bottom of the aquarium may be filtered to some extent, and water is not discharged to the outside of the aquarium during cleaning work, so there is no need to additionally supplement water. The problem, however, is that since a filter that filters foreign matter is made of cotton, the filter does not play its role quickly, especially as the water introduced into the body escapes from the upper side of the filter, the foreign matter filtered through the filter floats, and during the process of cleaning using the cited invention or/and taking the cited invention out of the aquarium after cleaning, the floating foreign matter are returned to the aquarium.
Accordingly, the present disclosure has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the related art, and the present disclosure is intended to propose a device for extracting foreign matter in a fish tank, wherein excrement of and food for fish, remaining in the fish tank, may be removed without a water exchange process, a filter is prevented from being clogged, and foreign matter filtered by the filter is prevented from entering the fish tank again.
In order to achieve the above objectives, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a device for extracting foreign matter in a fish tank, the device including: a body in which water is introduced through an inlet pipe provided downward from inside the body, and the introduced water passes through a filter provided inside the body and is discharged through an outlet, wherein the filter may be provided to surround the inlet pipe and to be spaced apart from sides of the body, and the outlet may be provided below the filter;
In addition, a lower part of the body may be composed of a lower body forming a convex hemisphere downward, through which the inlet pipe passes, and through which the outlet is formed outside the inlet pipe passing through the lower body, and the filter may be provided to have a lower outer edge thereof come into contact with a curved surface of the lower body.
In addition, the outlet may be formed by penetrating a point adjacent to an inner circumferential surface of the filter in the lower body, and the lower body may be provided with a seating protrusion protruding upward along an outer edge of the outlet so as to come into contact with a lower end of the filter while forming a ring shape.
In addition, the lower body may be provided with a guide pipe whose lower end may be located inside the outlet while forming a tube shape, whose upper end may be located near an upper end of the inlet pipe provided inside the guide pipe, with the filter being fitted over the guide pipe, the filter may be made of a sponge material and may be formed to a length such that an upper end thereof is positioned above the guide pipe in a state where the lower end thereof is supported by the seating protrusion, and the body may be provided with a filter fixture coupled to an upper end of the guide pipe while pressing the filter protruding upward from the guide pipe downward.
In addition, the filter may be provided in the form of a cylinder having a predetermined thickness and having a hollow formed therethrough along a longitudinal direction, and may be provided with a discharge passage recessed along the longitudinal direction of an inner circumferential surface thereof.
In addition, a holder provided with a fixing pipe upward from a point spaced apart from a bottom of the fish tank, and placed on the bottom of the fish tank may be further included, and wherein the body may be arranged such that the inlet pipe may communicate with the fixing pipe, so that water may flow into the inlet pipe through the fixing pipe.
According to the present disclosure, in the process of water in a fish tank flowing into a body of a device for extracting foreign matter in a fish tank and being discharged, foreign matter filtered by a filter is accumulated in the body, and the water that has passed through the filter is discharged into the fish tank through an outlet. That is, since the supply of supplementary water is not required in removing excrement of and food for fish, remaining in the fish tank, there is no need for performing water changes, which can increase user convenience.
Furthermore, water passes through the filter having a predetermined thickness and a large surface area, and in this process, since foreign matter filtered by the filter is accumulated in the body through the space between the filter and the sides of the body, the filter is not clogged. In addition, since discharged water is discharged through the outlet provided below the filter, foreign matter accumulated in the body does not float while the water is discharged, preventing the filtered foreign matter from reentering the fish tank.
The present disclosure can not only be used when cleaning the fish tank, but also can be mounted in the tank using a holder to continuously filter out foreign matter so that the fish tank can be kept clean at all times.
In the present disclosure, a device for extracting foreign matter in a fish tank is proposed, wherein excrement of and food for fish, remaining in the fish tank, may be removed without a water exchange process, a filter is prevented from being clogged, and foreign matter filtered by the filter is prevented from entering the fish tank again. To this end, the device includes a body into which water is introduced through an inlet pipe provided downward from the inside of the body and from which the introduced water is discharged through an outlet via a filter provided in the body, wherein the filter is spaced apart from the side of the body while surrounding the inlet pipe, and the outlet is formed beneath the filter, whereby foreign matter filtered by the filter is accumulated in the body through the space between the filter and the side of the body, and the water passing through the filter is discharged into the fish tank through the outlet.
The scope of the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments described below, and the present disclosure may be variously modified and implemented by those skilled in the art without departing from the technical gist of the present disclosure.
Hereinafter, a device for extracting foreign matter in a fish tank according to the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the attached
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To be specific, the inlet pipe 110 is provided in a rigid pipe shape, a part of which is located inside the body 100 and the other part of which penetrates the bottom surface of the body 100 so that a part thereof protrudes downward from the body 100. The inlet pipe 110 is provided, for example, to pass through the center of the lower body 100c in the vertical direction. At this time, the upper end of the inlet pipe 110 is preferably located at a point corresponding to half the length of the body 100 or slightly lower than that, so that only a part of the inside of the body 100 is filled with water.
The filter 120 has a cylindrical shape having a predetermined thickness and having a hollow through which the inlet pipe 110 passes along the longitudinal direction to make the surface thereof in contact with water large. Accordingly, foreign matter such as fish excrement and fish food contained in the water introduced from the fish tank may be effectively filtered by the filter 120. In addition, the filter 120 may be made of various materials, but is preferably made of a sponge material that is porous and deformable when force is applied.
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In addition, a configuration that secondarily blocks the discharge of foreign matter while allowing the filter 120 to be more stably seated on the lower body 100c around the outlet 130 may be provided in the body 100. As an example, as shown in
As previously mentioned, since the outlet 130 is formed below the filter 120 in the body 100, water passing through the filter 120 is discharged to the lower side of the body 100 as shown in
Moreover, since the water is discharged to the lower side of the body 100 while being separated from the filtered foreign matter, the foreign matter accumulated in the body 100 does not float during the cleaning process of the fish tank, and the foreign matter does not float even during the process of removing the body 100 from the fish tank after cleaning the fish tank, thereby preventing the filtered foreign matter from reentering the fish tank. In addition, since the lower body 100c constituting the lower part of the body 100 on which foreign matter are accumulated may be configured to be detachable and may be separated and washed after cleaning, washing may be facilitated by separating the lower body 100c in a state where foreign matter are accumulated. Furthermore, since the filter 100 is provided to be spaced apart from the outlet 130, water is filled to the lower side of the filter 100 in the lower body 100c, so that water may be more easily discharged through the outlet 130.
Meanwhile, in the body 100 of the present disclosure, a guide pipe 150 may be provided to stably fix the filter 120 and to ensure a part of the inlet pipe 110 located in the body 100 is in place. The guide pipe 150 may be, for example, provided upward from the center of the lower body 100c, the lower end of which is inside the discharge port 130, while forming a tube shape with open ends and an empty inside as shown in
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The filter 120 is fitted over the guide pipe 150, and the filter 120 fitted over the guide pipe 150 may be formed to a length such that the upper end thereof may be located above the guide pipe 150 when seated on the lower body 100c (i.e., in a state where the lower end of the guide pipe 150 is supported by the seating protrusion 140). As such, the filter 120 formed to have a longer length than the guide pipe 150 is compressed and provided in the body 100. To this end, in the body 100, a filter fixture 160 coupled to an upper end of the guide pipe 150 while pressing the filter 120 protruding upward from the guide pipe 150 downward may be provided as shown in
The filter fixture 160 may be, for example, formed in a plate shape covering the upper surface of the filter 120 while having a convex upper surface, and may have an inlet having a diameter corresponding to that of the inlet pipe 110 may be formed in the center. In addition, the filter fixture 160 may be provided with a coupling protrusion that protrudes downward from the bottom surface thereof and is inserted between the guide pipe 150 and the inlet pipe 110 and coupled with the guide pipe 150. Accordingly, a user may ensure that the filter 120 is securely fixed within the body 100 by fitting the filter 120 to the guide pipe 150, placing the filter fixture 160 on top of the filter 120, and pressing the filter 120 until the filter 120 is combined with the guide pipe 150. In addition, since the compressed filter 120 may filter foreign matter of smaller particles, the performance of the filter may be improved.
Meanwhile, various methods may be adopted to form a flow of water for introducing and discharging water into/from the body 100. For example, a method using air may be adopted.
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According to the present disclosure, when the length of only the inlet pipe 110 provided in the body 100 is sufficient, a through hole may be formed at the lower end of the inlet pipe 110 so that only water mixed with foreign matter may pass through without flooring materials at the bottom of the fish tank passing through, or an inlet cover 190 having the through hole may be detachably coupled to the lower end of the inlet pipe 110 as shown in
When the inlet pipe 110 provided in the body 100 is not long enough to clean the fish tank, the present disclosure may further include the extension inlet pipe 300 coupled to the end of the inlet pipe 110 located outside the body 100 and forming a pipe shape having a predetermined length as shown in
According to the present disclosure as described above, after positioning the body 100 in the fish tank as shown in
On the other hand, by allowing the body 100 to be placed in the fish tank, foreign matter in the fish tank may be continuously filtered out. To this end, the present disclosure may further include a holder 200 placed on the bottom of the fish tank as shown in
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The fixing pipe 210 is formed in a tube shape, and is preferably formed in the form of a pipe having a larger diameter than the inlet pipe 110 or the extension inlet pipe 300 so that the inlet pipe 110 or the extension inlet pipe 300 may be located inside the fixing pipe 210. Accordingly, as shown in
The fixing pipe 210 may protrude more from the center of the lower surface of the holder 200 than the upper end of the holding body 200a. In addition, as shown in
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As described above, the present disclosure may not only be used when cleaning the fish tank as shown in
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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10-2021-0121101 | Sep 2021 | KR | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/KR2022/010157 | 7/12/2022 | WO |