Structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device

Information

  • Patent Grant
  • 6736377
  • Patent Number
    6,736,377
  • Date Filed
    Wednesday, February 26, 2003
    22 years ago
  • Date Issued
    Tuesday, May 18, 2004
    20 years ago
Abstract
The present invention is an improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device includes a pump; a two-layer impeller, which is installed on a top of the pump; a pump case, which covers on outside of the two-layer impeller; an air tube, which is installed in impeller inlets of a lower-layer impeller of the two-layer impeller, a top end of the air tube protrudes out of a water level; when starting the pump, the two-layer impeller is then driven to deliver air from the air tube into the lower-layer impeller, partial water is sucked from filter holes into air tube to mix with air becoming an air-water flow, continuously, the air-water injection flow is injected by the lower-layer impeller and the lower-layer outlet of the pump case to form an air-water injection flow, other partial water is sucked from the impeller inlet of the upper-layer impeller into the air tube, continuously, the water passes through the impeller outlet of the upper-layer and the upper-layer outlet of the pump case to form a water injection flow. Via a high-speed and strong structure of the upper-layer water injection flow guiding the lower-layer air-water injection flow moving forward so as to that the time and the distance of bubbles retaining in water are both raised to increase oxygen in water.
Description




FIELD OF THE INVENTION




The invention is related to an improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device, especially the oxygen adding and aeration device with two-layer impellers and a pump case of two-layer injecting channels. An injected water structure of an upper layer guides injection mixture of water and gas of a lower layer to flow forward, therefore the time and the distance of bubbles retaining in water are both increased for oxygen adding and aeration.




BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION




Generally, an aquatic farm adopts traditional waterwheels, submersible pumps to increase oxygen in an aquatic pool. Referring to

FIG. 1

, a pump


10


cooperates with an air tube


20


to suck air (as several dot lines with arrows), meantime pump


10


draws out pool water from water inlet


11


(as a line with an arrow). After mixing of air and water around an impeller


12


of pump


10


, impeller


12


injects the mixture into the pool from an outlet


13


of pump


10


via high-speed rotation of impeller


12


(as rectangulars and arc-rectangulars with arrows). Due to bubbles


15


of the mixture floating out of the water level being no oxygen adding function, the rest is injection water


14


, thus pump


10


must be in operation continuously to keep generating bubbles


15


.




Based on the theory or the practice, bubbles retaining in pool water longer or smaller bubbles causes that bubbles hardly floating out of the water, thus the oxygen in pool water is raised up. To review the patents of Republic of China; 450021, 399405, 474331, 467146 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,275,762, titled “Aerator” and released in 1994, they focus on the points of how to averagely spread bubbles and maintain clean paths for bubbles, on the other hand, the issue for extending the time of bubbles retaining in water is nothing related. Hence, the problem for oxygen adding and aeration is not figured out basically.




SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION




The premier objective of the present invention is to offer an improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device. An injected water structure of an upper layer guides injection mixture of water and gas of a lower layer to flow forward, therefore the time and the distance of bubbles retaining in water are both increased for oxygen adding and aeration.




The secondary objective of the present invention is to offer an improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device. An air tube guides air into a water pool for mixing air and water, then the dynamics and weight of water bring air down into the water pool; it is then to avoid that air cannot be sucked because of high water pressure, and a deeper water pool is suitable to the present structure.




To further understand and recognize the merits of the present invention, a detailed description matching with corresponding drawings are presented as follows.











BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS





FIG. 1

is an action sketch of an oxygen adding and aeration device in prior arts.





FIG. 2

is a sectional view of a first preferred embodiment of the present invention.





FIG. 3

is a sectional view of a second preferred embodiment of the present invention.











DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION




Please refer to

FIG. 2

, which is a sectional view of a first preferred embodiment of the present invention. The preferred embodiment comprises a pump


30


, which is installed in water, and a driving axis


31


of the pump


30


is vertical to a water level


100


, generally pump


30


is located on a pool bottom


200


of an aquatic pool; a two-layer impeller, which is installed on a top of pump


30


and has an upper-layer impeller


41


and a lower-layer impeller


42


, both impellers have their own impeller inlets


411


and


421


and impeller outlets


412


and


422


; a pump case


50


, which is installed on top of pump


30


and covers on an outside of the two-layer impeller, the pump case


50


has an upper-layer outlet


51


and a lower-layer outlet


52


, the upper-layer outlet


51


is relative to the impeller outlet


412


of the upper-layer


41


of the two-layer impeller, and the lower-layer outlet


52


is relative to the impeller outlet


422


of the lower-layer impeller


42


of the two-layer impeller inside of the pump case


50


corresponding to upper-layer impeller outlet


412


and lower-layer impeller outlet


422


are designed two water-cut angles


511


and


521


to ensure that water and the mixture of water and air exhausted from upper-layer impeller


41


and lower-layer impeller


42


of the two-layer impeller can be injected from upper-layer outlet


51


and lower-layer outlet


52


of pump case


50


, in principle, pump case


50


is a volute pump case, therefore from the water-cut angles


511


and


521


to upper-layer outlet


51


and lower-layer outlet


52


is formed as a flat and diffused flow channel; a filter case


60


, which is installed on a top of pump case


50


and has plural filter holes


61


, inside of the filter case


60


is connected and through to the impeller inlet


411


of upper-layer impeller


41


of the two-layer impeller, filter case


60


functions as a percolator for water entering into impeller inlet


411


of upper-layer impeller


41


and an air tube


70


, for the embodiment, filter case


60


completely covers on plural filter holes


71


of the air tube


70


, such that, water in the air tube


70


is filtered twice by filter holes


61


and


71


to exclude leaves, excrements, etc.; the air tube


70


, which tube wall has a plurality of filter holes


71


, bottom of air tube


70


is connected and through to impeller inlet


421


of lower-layer impeller


42


of the two-layer impeller, a top end of air tube


70


protrudes out of a water level


100


, further that, by clamping forces of filter case


60


, air tube


70


and the two-layer impeller are concentric to ensure smooth operation of the two-layer impeller and without interference.




When starting a pump


30


, the two-layer impeller is then driven to deliver air from air tube


70


into lower-layer impeller


42


(as several dot lines with arrows). Partial water is sucked from filter holes


71


into air tube


70


(as several tiny lines with arrows) to mix with air becoming the mixture of water and air, continuously, the mixture is injected by lower-layer impeller


42


and lower-layer outlet


52


of pump case


50


to form an air-water injection flow B. Other partial water is sucked from impeller inlet


411


of upper-layer impeller


41


into air tube


70


, continuously, the water passes through impeller outlet


412


of upper-layer


41


and upper-layer outlet


51


of pump case


50


to form a water injection flow A. The water injection flow A is parallel to the air-water injection flow B. Via a high-speed and strong structure of upper-layer water injection flow A guiding lower-layer air-water injection flow B moving forward, hence water injection flow A forms a barrier to air-water injection flow B so that the time and distance of bubbles retaining in water are both raised to increase oxygen in water.




Please refer to

FIG. 3

, which is a sectional view of a second preferred embodiment of the present invention. The preferred embodiment differing with the first embodiment is that a plurality of filter holes


171


on an air tube


170


is spread wide to result in partial filter holes


171




a


being out of filter case


60


and partial holes


171




b


being within filter case


60


. While pump


30


pumping air from an air tube


170


into lower-layer impeller


42


(as several tiny dot lines with arrows), partial water is drawn out from filter holes


171




a


into air tube


170


(as several thick dot lines with arrows), other partial water is then pumped out to pass through filter holes


61


,


171




b


and into air tube


170


(as several tiny lines with arrows), meantime, it mixes with air to become an air-water flow, then passes through lower-layer impeller


42


, lower-layer outlet


52


of pump


50


to form air-water injection flow B. Other partial water is drawn out from impeller inlet


411


of upper-layer impeller


41


, and passes through impeller outlet


412


of upper-layer impeller


41


, upper-layer outlet


51


of pump case


50


to form water injection flow A. Both injection flows are parallel each other. The main purpose of the preferred embodiment is that while a water depth is over a certain depth (about 5 meters) and an air tube


170


only has air, therefore air pressure is, not as high as water pressure so that pump


30


cannot pump air into the two-layer impeller. The present embodiment designs that at the moment of pump


30


pumping air, partial water is guided into air tube


170


. Via the weight and dynamics of water, air is brought downward, ever to a depth of over 5 meters and can be sucked as well. The amount and height of filter holes


171




a


may depend on the length and diameter of air tube


170


; similarly, the present embodiment adopts the high-speed and strong structure of upper-layer water injection flow A to guide lower-layer air-water injection flow B moving forward, thus water injection flow A is as a barrier to air-water injection flow B for the time and distance of bubbles retaining in water so as to raise up the degree of oxygen in water.




As aforesaid, the present invention adopts the high-speed and strong structure of upper-layer water injection flow to guide lower-layer air-water injection flow moving forward, thus water injection flow is as a barrier to air-water injection flow for the time and distance of bubbles retaining in water so as to raise up the degree of oxygen in water. While the present invention has been shown and described with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, and in terms of the illustrative drawings, it should be not considered as limited thereby. Thus, the present invention is infinitely used. However, various possible modification, omission, and alterations could be conceived of by one skilled in the art to the form and the content of any particular embodiment, without departing from the scope and the sprit of the present invention.




The invention is disclosed and is intended to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims and its equivalent area.



Claims
  • 1. An improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device comprising:a pump; a two-layer impeller having an upper-layer impeller and a lower-layer impeller, both impellers having their own impeller inlets and impeller outlets; a pump case having an upper-layer outlet and a lower-layer outlet; an air tube having a plurality of filter holes on a tube wall thereof; the pump being installed in water and a driving axis of the pump being vertical to a water level, the two-layer impeller being installed on a top of the pump, the pump case being installed on the top of the pump and covering on an outside of the two-layer impeller, the upper-layer outlet of the pump case being relative to the impeller outlet of the upper-layer impeller of the two-layer impeller, and the lower-layer outlet being relative to the impeller outlet of the lower-layer impeller of the two-layer impeller, a bottom of the air tube connecting and through to the impeller inlet of the lower-layer impeller of the two-layer impeller, a top end of the air tube protruding out of a water level when starting the pump, the two-layer impeller being then driven to deliver air from the air tube into the lower-layer impeller, partial water being sucked from filter holes into the air tube to mix with air becoming an air-water injection flow, other partial water being sucked from the impeller inlet of the upper-layer impeller and passing through the impeller outlet of the upper-layer impeller and the upper-layer outlet of the pump case to form a water injection flow; via a high-speed and strong structure of the upper-layer water injection flow guiding the lower-layer air-water injection flow moving forward so that a time and a distance of bubbles retaining in water being both raised to increase oxygen in the water.
  • 2. The improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device as recited in claim 1, wherein a filter case is installed on a top of the pump case, inside of the filter case is connected and through to the impeller inlet of the upper-layer impeller of the two-layer impeller, the filter case functions as a percolator for water entering into the impeller inlet of the upper-layer impeller and the air tube.
  • 3. The improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device as recited in claim 2, wherein the filter case is installed around plural filter holes of the air tube and completely covers on plural filter holes of the air tube, such that, water in the air tube is filtered twice.
  • 4. The improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device as recited in claim 2, wherein the filter case is installed around plural filter holes of the air tube, partial filter holes are out of the filter case and partial filter holes are within the filter case, such that, water sucked into the air tube is then percolated twice, other water is pumped into the air tube via the filter holes, which are out of the filter case, and thus air in the air tube is brought downward by way of dynamics of water.
  • 5. The improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device as recited in claim 1, wherein inside of the pump case corresponding to the upper-layer impeller outlet and the lower-layer impeller outlet are designed two water-cut angles to ensure that water injection flow and air-water injection flow exhausted from the upper-layer outlet and the lower-layer outlet of the pump case.
  • 6. The improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device as recited in claim 1, wherein the air tube is concentric to the two-layer impeller.
  • 7. The improved structure for an oxygen adding and aeration device as recited in claim 1, wherein the pump case is a volute pump case, therefore from water-cut angles to the upper-layer outlet and the lower-layer outlet is formed as a flat and diffused flow channel.
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