EP3211158A1 - Skimmer de surface - Google Patents

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Publication number: EP3211158A1
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: water; surface skimmer; skimmer; collecting; lip
Prior art date: 2016-02-26
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EP17157855.2A

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Thomas Amminger

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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E04—BUILDING
- E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
- E04H4/00—Swimming or splash baths or pools
- E04H4/12—Devices or arrangements for circulating water, i.e. devices for removal of polluted water, cleaning baths or for water treatment
- E04H4/1209—Treatment of water for swimming pools
- E04H4/1263—Floating skimmers

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the present invention relates to a device for cleaning water surfaces and near-surface water layers, especially in enclosed waters, for example in swimming pools, swimming ponds, ponds and lakes.
Water surfaces are exposed to recurring contamination by continuous entry of mostly unwanted foreign matter, such as leaves, petals, dust, insects, feathers, hair and the like. Therefore, regular cleaning is required especially for smaller bodies of water such as swimming pools, swimming ponds, ponds and smaller lakes.
Impurities can be removed manually, for example with the aid of a netting, from the water. However, since working time is expensive, this solution is not desirable for businesses or privately used waters. Rather, an automated cleaning is preferable.
a surface skimmer for cleaning the water surface and the near-surface water layers of waters, but especially not exclusively of swimming pools, swimming ponds and ponds up to a surface of for example 2 m 2 to 50 m 2 , preferably 5 m 2 to 20 m 2 and for example 10 m 2 , whereby the death rate of the living beings covered by the surface skimmer is reduced.
the surface skimmer according to the invention floats and has a catching device for receiving and collecting impurities at and / or near a water surface.
the safety gear has a catching lip, a collecting section for collecting trapped impurities, and a rise suitable for land animals following the collecting section.
the catch lip can cover the full 360 ° or only part of the possible directions of movement of the surface skimmer parallel to the water surface.
the safety catch preferably has a generally S-shaped contour on a line extending from the catching lip over the collecting section and the ascent. That Preferably, the catch lip bulges just below the water surface, e.g.
the collecting section on the side opposite the catching lip merges into an inclined ramp which forms the ascent.
the ascent reaches preferably to a central area.
the central area preferably has a float.
the central area preferably the central floating body, at least in sections, but preferably on its entire circumference, surrounded by the S-shaped safety gear.
the ascent has a slope of 0% to 70%, preferably 1% to 66%, more preferably 10% to 60%, more preferably 2% to 45%, more preferably 3% to 30%, most preferably 4% to 15%.
the slope is defined as usual for traffic routes: for a climb, which requires a distance dx to overcome a height difference of dh, the slope is dh / dx.
the climb can have a constant slope.
the ascent can also have different slopes, both in the circumferential direction of the surface skimmer and in the radial direction.
the rise may include one or more plastics, rubber, wood and / or metal.
the rise preferably extends from below the water surface in the connected collection section to a safe height, preferably at least 10 mm, more preferably at least 20 mm, particularly preferably at least 30 mm, above the highest water surface of the close environment.
the animal can dry on the ramp at a safe distance from the water and then fly on its own or wait for its rescue at the next inspection of the surface skimmer.
the buoyancy of the surface skimmer requires a buoyancy of the surface skimmer adapted to the weight of the surface skimmer.
the buoyancy is generated by one or more suitably dimensioned floats, which may be formed, for example, as polystyrene bodies and / or watertight closed hollow bodies.
a portion of the heatnskimmers which primarily has a different function, be made as a water-sealed hollow body and / or have floating material and thus assume the function of a floating body.
the safety gear of a surface scoop according to the invention is preferably at least partially permeable to water.
the safety gear can be designed as spanned by shaping struts network.
the safety gear may have any number of struts, with one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight struts being preferred.
the struts are preferably made of a material of low density, preferably Plastic and / or wood, and may be shaped as a hollow body.
the network preferably comprises plastic, metal, a wire mesh and / or cotton.
the safety gear may have an inherently dimensionally stable sieve and / or rake, which preferably comprises plastic, rubber, metal, a wire mesh, cotton and / or wood.
the rise preferably has a net-like and / or otherwise structured surface.
the ascent can be finely corrugated, for example. This can help provide a living animal with more stability for running and / or crawling.
the safety gear may have a lipophilic surface. This can help to bind soils that have an affinity for lipophilic substances, such as fats and fat-like substances, such as cream, oil and / or lotion, especially for sun protection, but also skin fat.
plan view of a surface scoop according to the invention is preferably polygonal, particularly preferably square, triangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal or octagonal.
Floor corners can be bevelled and / or rounded.
the floor plan may take any other shape, such as oval, round or an irregular shape.
the surface skimmer may be equipped with a container suitable for containing pool cleaning tablets and / or other chemicals.
the chemicals may be in solid and / or liquid and / or gaseous state and in dissolved and / or undissolved state.
the container is preferably made at least partially permeable to water, such as a basket and / or mesh and / or water and chemical permeable membrane, so that the chemicals are released gradually to the water.
the container with the remaining surface skimmer is reversibly, for example via a plug connection or a screw thread, connected and can be solved for the purpose of filling and re-attached.
the container has a filling opening with closure.
the surface skimmer may include one or more water quality and / or water temperature monitoring devices.
chemical, mechanical and / or electrical methods can be used.
a device for displaying the measured water quality and / or the measured water temperature is integrated.
the Display may include an electronic display, such as a light, an LED, and / or a display for displaying text and / or symbols.
the display may additionally or exclusively have a mechanical component, such as a pointer and / or a liquid column, and / or a chemical display, each optionally with a scale.
the surface skimmer can measure and display the pH of the water, for example by means of indicator paper or sticks.
the surface skimmer may include an electronic or a liquid column based thermometer. Furthermore, the surface skimmer may have a device for measuring the chlorine content in the water and / or a device for displaying the chlorine content in the water.
the surface skimmer uses external forces, such as air and / or water currents, to move across the water surface to collect contaminants.
the surface skimmer may have its own drive system which generates propulsion of the surface skimmer.
the drive system preferably includes a motor that preferably uses electrical energy to move the surface skimmer.
the propulsion of the surface skimmer is preferably generated by the engine driving a suitably-scaled propeller and / or operating a pump that draws water from the water and expels it through an outlet, thereby producing a jet of water and thus recoil, for propulsion is being used.
the drive system is preferably constructed so that the inflowing water passes first the catch lip and the collecting portion of the safety gear before it passes through the propeller or the pump.
the incoming water passes through a water-permeable safety filter, which shields the propeller or the pump from the environment.
a self-propelled surface skimmer generates waves on the surface of the body of water with the water moved for the purpose of propulsion, making the surface more perceptible to living beings.
the rate of entry of animals into the water is already reduced, so that the cleaning or rescue effort reduced.
oxygen is supplied to the water by the generation of surface waves, which in particular favors the preservation of the ecological balance of swimming ponds, ponds and lakes.
the drive system of the surface skimmer is preferably designed in such a way that propulsion in several directions can be generated.
the different propulsion directions are preferably generated by the use of multiple propellers and / or outlets for water jets, which generate different strong propulsion forces depending on the desired direction.
a propeller and / or an outlet is movable, so that one and the same propeller or the same outlet can produce propulsion in several directions.
different propulsion directions are generated by different positions of a tail below the water surface.
the surface skimmer autonomously changes its propulsion direction at adjustable regular and / or random intervals, so as to gradually descend the entire surface of the body of water.
two directly successive directions of movement differ at least regularly by 90 ° to 270 °, more preferably by 110 ° to 250 °, particularly preferably by 135 ° to 225 °. This ensures that the surface skimmer does not get trapped in corners and / or small bays of swimming pools and / or ponds.
a further preferred embodiment of the surface skimmer has a detection system which detects an obstacle in the direction of movement of the surface skimmer. Upon detection of an obstacle, the drive system is controlled such that the surface skimmer changes its propulsion direction.
the detection system can be mechanically or electronically coupled to the drive.
the surface skimmer has a location for receiving a rechargeable and / or non-rechargeable electrical energy store, which space is preferably watertight to the outside environment.
electrical contacts are integrated, which are suitable for the connection of the memory for electrical energy and via which the surface skimmer is electrically connected to the memory.
the surface skimmer has a solar panel, which is preferably mounted on the upper side of the surface skimmer.
the electrical energy generated by the solar panel can be used directly and / or stored for later use in an electrical storage.
the electrical energy that may be provided by a solar panel or by an electrical storage may, for example, be used by the drive system, the detection system and / or water quality and / or water temperature monitoring devices.
the surface skimmer includes a microprocessor that may be used to execute and / or coordinate user input, measurement, display, propulsion, detection, control, power, power, and / or energy usage as appropriate, and / or or to process and / or control.
Fig. 1A shows the side view of a preferred embodiment of a heatnskimmers invention 2.
the surface skimmer 2 has a safety gear 4 with a rise 6 on.
the surface skimmer 2 also has a float 8, which for example comprises polystyrene.
the float 8 is dimensioned such that a catch lip 10 of the safety gear 4 at or just below the water surface 12th which corresponds to an immersion depth of the surface skimmer 2 in the water 14 optimized for its mode of operation.
the embodiment of the microwavenskimmers 2 according to the invention on a rotating catching device 4 the catch lip 10 accordingly covers the full 360 ° of the possible directions of movement of the surgeonnskimmers 2 parallel to the water surface 12.
the embodiment shown here has in plan view according to Fig. 1B a square floor plan with bevelled corners, but in other embodiments may also have other planforms, such as rectangular, round, polygonal or oval, and be equipped with fully encircling or partially rotating safety gear 4.
the safety gear 4 in the Figures 1A and 1B illustrated embodiment has struts 16 which tension a net 18, which preferably has plastic, in its intended form.
the net 18 preferably has a mesh width of 0.5 to 2 mm, which on the one hand the capture of impurities and on the other hand, a sufficiently large water flow rate is ensured.
Fig. 2 shows a schematic cross section through the safety gear 4 along the line CD Fig. 1B
the safety gear 4 has on the line from D to C a generally S-shaped contour, ie the catch lip 10 bulges out of the water 14 up through the water surface 12 and passes into the downwardly curved collecting portion 20, which partially located below the water surface 12.
the collecting section 20 merges on the side opposite the catching lip 10 into an inclined ramp which forms the ascent 6 and can extend to the central floating body 8 of the surface skimmer 2.
the rise 6 is preferably not too steep, preferably with a slope of 10% to 60%, and a surface condition that allows animals, such as insects such as bees and bumblebees, to run on it.
the surface of a, as in Fig. 2 shown formed as a network rise to a structure that provides the collected living things, such as bumblebees and / or bees, enough support that they can run out of the collection section and / or crawl.
the mesh size is selected to be correspondingly fine and / or the thickness and / or the material of the yarn used for the net selected appropriately (eg 1 mm to 10 mm or 2 mm to 5 mm mesh size).
This operating principle applies to each movement direction of the surface skimmer parallel to the water surface 12, since the catch lip 10 of the illustrated embodiment covers each of these directions of movement.
the S-shape of the safety gear 4 causes a once-collected contaminant to remain in the collecting portion 20 with high probability regardless of the moving direction of the surface scaler 2 until the surface skimmer 20 is manually emptied. If the contaminant is an animal, such as a bee or a bumblebee, the ascent 6 in the form of a ramp enables the animal to recover from the collection section 20.
FIG. 1B At the top of its central float 8, the in Fig. 1B illustrated embodiment, solar panels 22, which provide electrical energy obtained from light. This is in the cross section of FIG. 3 shown closer. The energy thus obtained is immediately used to generate propulsion or stored for later use in an electrical energy store (not shown). Alternatively or additionally, the energy is used immediately and / or later for the operation of one or more measuring devices and / or displays (not shown in each case).
the container 24 may be reversibly connected to the surface skimmer 2 via a plug connection and may be loosened and refastened for the purpose of filling.
the chemicals 26 entrained during operation are discharged successively, for example through a permeable container wall, to the water 14.
the in Fig. 3 illustrated surface skimmer 2 preferably at least one electric motor 28, which provides the propulsion of the Liebenskimmers 2 by converting electrical energy, which he directly from the solar panels 22 and / or from (not shown) stores for electrical energy.
the electric motor 28 operates at least one pump, which generates a water jet and thus a propulsion based on the recoil principle by sucking water 14 and discharging it through an outlet.

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