To capture and store rainwater and other sources.
Facilitating and saving space for collecting and storing rainwater and other sources.
To reduce ecological impact by decreasing/eliminating the use of treated water to wash floors and vehicles, and to water flower and kitchen gardens.
The release of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has been pinpointed as the reason why the planet's atmosphere is trapping more and more heat.
This has clearly affected rainfall levels, resulting in long-standing droughts in places where such phenomenon had never been recorded before in such a remarkable way, as was the case in 2015 when the level of the Cantareira rainwater harvesting and storage system in São Paulo, Brazil, was so low that it forced millions of households to store water in pans and carboys, oftentimes collected from far-away sources.
In sharp and poignant contrast with this situation, while in some locations people were still using hoses to wash their sidewalks with treated water, in others, either there wasn't a drop of water available to drink or the available water had been collected and stored without taking any precautions to prevent contamination.
Water for storage and human consumption is usually provided by public utilities that use harvesting systems and dams from where small quantities of water are collected for treatment and storage, which do not last more than a few days. The treated water is then distributed to consumers, who also store it in overhead or underground water tanks to supply water to one or more families.
The capture and storage of water under circumstances other than the ones recommended by sanitation agencies is harmful to health.
In like manner, the use of treated water to wash sidewalks and vehicles, as well as to water flower and kitchen gardens is economically deleterious to less privileged people, in addition to overloading the demand during droughts, not to mention the ecological fingerprint left by the use of chemicals and energy, typical of water treatment plants.
Consumers use water to meet needs other than those for human consumption, such as to wash floors and vehicles and to water public and private gardens and kitchen gardens; however, Brazil does not have a public distribution system of clean raw water for non-human use, thereby adding to the cost of treated water.
The object of the present patent is to introduce a groundbreaking system for the storage of runoff from rainwater and from other sources, basically comprising tube-like vertical deposits with varied and adequate diameters to facilitate both assembly and construction of walls and fences, being self-supporting, modular, cost-effective, either built-in or surface-installed.
In other words, with the proposed solution, water can be stored without taking up otherwise useful spaces in the house or in urban areas, as is the case of conventional water storage systems, in addition to making water available at ground level, thereby minimizing or eliminating the need to use elevation pumps and the costs associated with underground deposits.
In order to make for a perfect understanding and visualization of the object of the present patent, the following illustration figures are provided herein:
The figures show a number of elements that work jointly to form modules, but it should be pointed out that the object of this patent also allows for the use of a stand-alone vertical cylindrical pipe or dozens of such pipes.
Below are detailed descriptions of the construction elements in a preferred embodiment of this patent.
The vertical pipes are filled and emptied in counterphase with the input and output of atmospheric air through the collection duct (3), which is attached to the gutter (4) that receives the water from the roof (4A).
Each vertical cylindrical pipe (2) is provided with two plugs (5) on both ends of the pipe, top and bottom, using glue and pressure. We also see two structuring elements (6) for each vertical cilyndrical pipe, whose functions are described as follows.
1—to provide support between the vertical cilyndrical pipes (2) so as to allow for all the elements of the EQUIPMENT FOR CAPTURING AND STORING RAINWATER AND WATER OF OTHER ORIGINS (1) to work as a single unit in terms of structure, in such a way that any alien force applied to any of the components of the module, object of the present patent, will be absorbed by all elements of the module;
2—to work as the element that keeps the vertical cilyndrical pipes (2) fixed on the ground—using screws (8) or any other appropriate method—and between them through the plug(5) to which each vertical cilyndrical pipe (2) is attached at its bottom.
3—to work as the element that keeps the vertical cilyndrical pipes (2) fixed between them through the plug (5) to which each vertical cilyndrical pipe (2) is attached at its top.
4—to house and protect the interconnecting ducts (7) whose work is to functionally connect the vertical cylindrical pipe (2) at the base, for water circulation, and at the top, for atmosphere air circulation.
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