AU2008100966A4 - Multifunction Water Tank V - Google Patents
Multifunction Water Tank V Download PDFInfo
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- AU2008100966A4 AU2008100966A4 AU2008100966A AU2008100966A AU2008100966A4 AU 2008100966 A4 AU2008100966 A4 AU 2008100966A4 AU 2008100966 A AU2008100966 A AU 2008100966A AU 2008100966 A AU2008100966 A AU 2008100966A AU 2008100966 A4 AU2008100966 A4 AU 2008100966A4
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
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- E03B3/02—Methods or installations for obtaining or collecting drinking water or tap water from rain-water
- E03B3/03—Special vessels for collecting or storing rain-water for use in the household, e.g. water-butts
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02A20/00—Water conservation; Efficient water supply; Efficient water use
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
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Description
Editorial Note 2008100966 This application has 4 pages of description
AUSTRALIA
Patents Act 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION INNOVATION PATENT Name of Applicant: Actual Inventors: Address for Service: BAILEY ENTERPRISES AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD.
PETER BAILEY; REBECCA BAILEY; SEAN BAILEY 8 YAZAKI WAY CARRUM DOWNS VICTORIA 3201 Invention Title: MULTIFUNCTION WATER TANK V 00 TITLE: MULTIFUNCTION WATER TANK V
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S FIELD OF THE INVENTION 1. This invention concerns small to medium scale water tanks for both domestic and commercial storage. The tank is intended to be multifunctional and used as a garden or O 5 vegetable garden bed, whilst still incorporating a standalone water storage and collection function.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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O 1. Above ground water tanks that hold several hundred to several thousand litres capacity tend to have both a purely functional appearance and use. Existing water tanks can vary in 00 O .0 appearance from having straight or corrugated sides, to having ribbed sections or steel bands
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encircling them. The tops and bases of these tanks also vary from the relatively plain, to differing ribbed combinations. In short, all are functional in appearance and only display the aesthetics of what society conceives from water tank designs, with no design exhibiting a multifunction mode.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 1. The technical aspect of the apparatus is to combine a water tank, and a planter box feature. In addition, whilst creating an apparatus that incorporates both of the required functional elements, a major requirement is attaining an aesthetically pleasing product that displays the functions being used in that is a planter feature whilst still having the .0 functionality of The apparatus aspect of the invention provides two functions. Firstly, a water tank vessel which can both collect and store water, whilst being comprised from a multitude of different shapes and colours, which secondly depicts as a function, a planter box arrangement capable of supporting plants or a vegetable garden via its receptacle. The tank may draw on its own stored water either tap, external pump or internal submersible pump to deliver water to the plant matter housed in the receptacle via manual watering or automated watering via dripper hose or an irrigated sprinkler system.
2. The apparatus employs the use of some common 3 rd party components which are present on most existing water tank types. These components are necessary to complete the plumbing aspect of the finished apparatus, but are not claimed as adding any technical merit to the invention. These components include; a tap, a water pump, hose, either dripper hose or irrigation sprinklers, an overflow fitting, a filling point fitting, various threaded fittings and PVC or similar pipe.
00 The apparatus of the invention typically has a one water inlet and one overflow point,
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O but is not limited to the same locations in between the different possible design variants. The inlet may be placed on a top section, on a horizontal surface or alternatively may be sited on a O vertical wall. The inlet may also be placed either on an exterior or interior vessel surface. The 0 5 overflow may be placed horizontally on an underlying exterior surface or surface. The overflow
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o may be placed horizontally on an underlying exterior surface or placed vertically on either an exterior or interior vessel surface depending on the variant type.
S All tank variants hold fittings for a tap connection, drainage and water pump connection points.
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The three above specified connection types can vary in location and number dependant on 0 o .0 variant type, but are all limited in theory to external vertical surfaces on the vessel.
00 3. While a square shaped planter water tank is pleasing enough to look at, other straight sided
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O profile variants can be rectangular, parallelogram, triangular, diamond, octagon, hexagon or other similarly vaned shape. Alternatively, other profile variants can be round, semi circular, conical, elliptical or hemispherical in shape.
Irrespective of variant shape, variants may contain differing heights, widths, depths and diameters. Variants may also contain differing styles of vertical and horizontal sides and/or having varying sized recesses and/or extrusions, whether being either on a horizontal and/or a vertical plane, being both external and internal in nature. It is certain that many other shapes, profiles and configurations could also be adapted to form other tank variants of a similar !0 nature, as set out within the specification.
All of these variants should be regarded as equal, as all fall within the patent specification description listed and all can be produced from resin or plastic using rotational moulding or another equivalent plastic moulding processes using a similar manufacturing media.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS One embodiment of the invention are now described below in minor detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: Figure 1 referring to the drawing shows a square to round planter water tank.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION WITH RESPECT TO THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 referring to the drawing shows a round water tank section which transforms to a square planter section atop, which in turn houses a square receptacle within. A detail description is as follows.
00 The planter tanks top surface 5, holds in adjacent corners a small work space 6 and an area
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O housing the inlet strainer 7. The top surface has also located within its centre, the planter features receptacle which has a floor section 2, vertical tapering walls 3 and two bulbous O adjacent corner wall sections which support items 6 and 7. The external corner of the vessels top surface has a small radius which facilitates a generous downward vertical step 11, the
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O vertical step also has located on it an overflow point 8, which is located towards the top of the step underneath the inlet strainer. At the base to this step, the vessels profile changes direction inwards to form an underlying horizontal step 12 which on its inward path reaches an inner radius that changes the vessels main profile to a circular shape. From this circular shaped O .0 radius, the tank profile turns vertically downward until the vessels base is reached, this then O forms the vessels cylindrical main body 14. Located in between the square vertical step 12 and 00 the main cylinder body 14 are four tapered ribs 13, which are located in each of the vertical
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O step corners. Also sited on the main cylindrical body are a bucket tap 9 and a connection point It should be understood that the various types, shapes, modifications of, and/or additions to the invention can be made without departing from the basic nature of the invention. These modifications and/or additions are therefore considered to fall within the scope of the specification to the invention.
Claims (4)
1. A vessel which has the main function of being a water storage tank, which is also comprised substantially of a planter box shaped arrangement. The planter box O receptacle is capable of supporting articles, such as soil and plant matter. The vessel exhibits common water tank features such as an inlet, overflow outlet, tap, drainage o and pump connection points.
2. The tank may draw on its own stored water either tap, external pump or internal submersible pump to deliver water to the plant matter housed in the receptacle via \O C manual watering or automated watering via dripper hose or an irrigated sprinkler O O .0 system, whilst also using the same methods to draw water from the vessel for external 0usage away from the planter receptacle 00 O
3. A water storage vessel as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the primary manufacturing O medium is rotationally moulded plastic or a similarly moulded plastic type, ie; injection, vacuum, blow moulding etc.
4. A water storage vessel as claimed in any one of Claims 1-3, wherein the main exterior vessel profile shape bears resemblance to either circular, semi circular elliptical, hemispherical or flat sided shapes such as squares, rectangles, parallelogram, triangle, diamond, octagon, hexagon or other similarly vaned shape. A water storage vessel as claimed in any one of Claims 1-4, wherein the size of all .0 specified parts remain irrelevant.
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| AU2008100966A AU2008100966A4 (en) | 2008-10-02 | 2008-10-02 | Multifunction Water Tank V |
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| AU2008100966A AU2008100966A4 (en) | 2008-10-02 | 2008-10-02 | Multifunction Water Tank V |
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| FGI | Letters patent sealed or granted (innovation patent) | ||
| MK20 | Patent ceased section 143a(b)/reg. 22.2d(2) or (4) - non-payment of examination fees within the prescribed period | ||
| NB | Applications allowed - extensions of time section 223(2) |
Free format text: THE TIME IN WHICH TO PAY THE EXAM REQUEST FEE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 02 FEB 2009. |
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| MK21 | Patent ceased section 101c(b)/section 143a(c)/reg. 9a.4 - examination under section 101b had not been carried out within the period prescribed |