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A water-driveable personal hygiene device may be used to operate multiple, interchangeable personal hygiene implements. A water-driven rotary wheel, located in the handle of the device and connected to a driveshaft, creates either a back-and-forth or semi-rotating oscillating motion or a first personal hygiene implement, such as a toothbrush. An independently operated water-driveable second personal hygiene implement may be used to cause water to flow to the first personal hygiene implement or to be independently used. A method of using the device is also disclosed.

Apparatus and methods for detecting and eliminating water flow leakage conditions within appliances having integral water filtration systems. Leak free water delivery systems for use with an appliance can include an isolation valve and flow sensor for providing a response mechanism for possible water leakages within the integral water filtrations system. The appliance makes use of a flow sensor to sense water flow rates within a preselected flow range. When water flow rates outside the preselected flow range are sensed, the isolation valve is closed to prevent non-transient water flow through the water system. The isolation valve can be remotely located on an inlet line or can be as a part of the integral water filtration system. The integral water filtration system can include a manual or automatic reset mechanism such that a user can restore water flow after a low flow or high flow situation has been rectified.

Water production from a subterranean formation is inhibited or controlled by pumping a fluid containing coated particles through a wellbore into the formation. The particles have been previously coated with a relative permeability modifier (RPM). Upon contact with water, the RPM coating expands or swells and inhibits and controls the production of water. The RPM may be a water hydrolyzable polymer having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000. The particles may be conventional proppants or gravel.

A water filter cartridge having a housing with an inlet nozzle with a concentric, smaller outlet nozzle extending through the inlet nozzle with a space therebetween defining an inlet to a flow path passing through a filter and through the outlet nozzle. A diaphragm valve mounted to the outlet nozzle blocks upstream flow out of the inlet when the cartridge is not in use. An umbrella valve mounted on the end of the filter blocks downstream flow out of the outlet nozzle when the cartridge is not in use, thus reducing leakage when the cartridge is removed from the appliance.

A water control valve configured for use with a bypass valve to automatically bypass cold or tepid water in a hot water supply line so as to maintain hot water at the fixture. The water control valve is useful for shower / tub facilities and for appliances such as washing machines and dishwashing machines. The water control valve for use with shower / tub facilities is adapted for the bypass valve to attach to or be adjacent to the water control valve by utilizing bypass ports, passageways and / or connectors. The water control valve for use with appliances is adapted to have a second outlet for connecting to a second water control valve or, for combination service valves, to have the bypass valve disposed in the tubular section between the hot and cold water components. The preferred bypass valve is a thermostatically controlled bypass valve of the type having a thermal actuating element.

A parent-child showerhead includes a wall-mounted showerhead, a hand-held showerhead, and a showerhead bracket. The wall-mounted showerhead is fixed on a conduit extending from a wall and connects to the hand-held showerhead via a hose. The showerhead bracket is provided for the hand-held showerhead to hang thereon. The wall-mounted showerhead has a water diverter disposed therein for controlling the spray water from the wall-mounted showerhead or the hand-held showerhead or from both of them. The water diverter has an adjusting knob for changing a direction of the water flow, and the adjusting knob is located on the wall-mounted showerhead at side close to a user, which is convenient for users to operate. The showerhead bracket is disposed at a lower position of the wall-mounted showerhead, and has a receptacle. The receptacle is in a pivoted state to adjust an angle and provide the hand-held showerhead to be engaged therein.

The invention belongs to the marine oil spill processing technology field and relates to a hot-air balloon device for marine oil slick collection and processing. The invention comprises the main body of a hot-air balloon device, a vortex generator and an oil-water separation device. The hot-air balloon device is symmetrically arranged along the central revolution axis. The main body of the hot-air balloon device comprises a power motor, a main body control system and a chemical reagent sprayer. The vortex generator comprises a universal shaft coupling and a vortex generator blade; the vortex generator rotates the sea water to generate vortexes and inhales mixtures into the device. The oil-water separation device comprises an oil suction pump, an oil storage tank, an oil interface detector, a water interface detector and a drainage pump; wherein the oil storage tanks are independently symmetric to the lower part of the two sides of the main body of the hot-air balloon device; a flexible oil storage bag is provided; after filled with oil, the flexible oil storage bag can float naturally in the sea. The invention can significantly increase the efficiency of oil slick collection and treatment, has good stability and flexibility in running and allows the implementation of multiple operations at the same time. The invention with a simple structure and easy manufacturing is suitable for treating large-scale marine oil spill accidents.

A water control fixture having an operating valve and a thermostatically controlled bypass valve disposed in the fixture for bypassing water away from the fixture until the water temperature reaches a desired level. When pressurized water from the hot water heater reaches the desired temperature level at the fixture, the bypass valve closes and hot water is made available to the fixture. The bypass valve has a thermal actuator element that is thermally responsive to the temperature of the water. The fixture can have a housing with an interior chamber for operatively receiving the bypass valve. Various passages or channels can be provided to facilitate communication between the bypass valve and the water supply lines. Alternatively, the bypass valve can be positioned in the operating valve, including the moveable ball and the replaceable cylindrical valving cartridge types. A system using the in-fixture bypass valve is also provided.

A parent-child showerhead includes a wall-mounted showerhead, a hand-held showerhead, and a showerhead bracket. The wall-mounted showerhead is fixed on a conduit extending from a wall and connects to the hand-held showerhead via a hose. The showerhead bracket is provided for the hand-held showerhead to hang thereon. The wall-mounted showerhead has a water diverter disposed therein for controlling the spray water from the wall-mounted showerhead or the hand-held showerhead or from both of them. The water diverter has an adjusting knob for changing a direction of the water flow, and the adjusting knob is located on the wall-mounted showerhead at side close to a user, which is convenient for users to operate. The showerhead bracket is disposed at a lower position of the wall-mounted showerhead, and has a receptacle. The receptacle is in a pivoted state to adjust an angle and provide the hand-held showerhead to be engaged therein.

The present invention is directed to sealable rock bolts that prevent water leakage through the bolt, a kit containing portions of such bolts prior to assembly, installation, and use, and a method of using such sealable rock bolts. Such rock bolts are fastened in place in a roof, wall, or bottom of an underground region via pressure fitting or the like. The rock bolt contains a sealing unit that contains a liquid water activated, expandable hydrophobic pre-polymeric resin. The sealing unit has side, top, and bottom portions that are degradable by water to permit the resin to expand upon contact with water and to seal the bolt to prevent water passage through the bolt.

The present invention is a system and method for detecting water in locations in homes and buildings etc. where it should not be present, and responding by terminating water inlet access to plumbing in the home or building etc., and by opening a pressure dump valve to relieve leak promoting pressure remaining in the plumbing.

A sewer backup alarm and overflow prevention device eliminates raw sewage spills by preventing pressure buildup in sewer drains. One or more sewage level sensors may be coupled to an alarm and / or to an automatic water main shut-off valve. The level sensor may detect excess fluid levels in a sewer lateral line. The sewer backup alarm and overflow prevention device may include a joggle which is a component of a non-mechanical backflow prevention device. The level sensor may detect fluid levels in the lower portion of the joggle and activate the automatic water main shut-off valve and / or the alarm. The sewer backup alarm and overflow prevention device may include at least one two-way, in-line cleanout tube which may extend vertically upwardly from the joggle. The level sensor may be mounted in the vertical cleanout tube. The components may be contained within a seamless polyethylene vault for ease of installation and protection against root intrusion.

A rodent guard configured to be attached to an end of a gutter for preventing rodents from entering the gutter, climbing the gutter to the roof and entering a house is disclosed. The rodent guard may include a gutter receiving opening at one end and a cover receiving opening at a second end generally opposite to the first end. A perforated cover formed from a rigid material may be removably attached to the rodent guard body at the second end that enables the cover to be removed from the base during use such that debris within the gutter can be easily removed from the gutter. The perforated cover may be sized to allow water to pass through the cover, but prevent rodents from entering the gutter through the cover.

A rodent guard configured to be attached to an end of a gutter for preventing rodents from entering the gutter, climbing the gutter to the roof and entering a house is disclosed. The rodent guard may include a gutter receiving opening at one end and a cover receiving opening at a second end generally opposite to the first end. A perforated cover formed from a rigid material may be removably attached to the rodent guard body at the second end that enables the cover to be removed from the base during use such that debris within the gutter can be easily removed from the gutter. The perforated cover may be sized to allow water to pass through the cover, but prevent rodents from entering the gutter through the cover.

The invention provides an integrated initial rainwater draining well, which is a device capable of draining certain millimeters of initial rainwater on an appointed water catchment panel and separating out later clean rainwater so as to greatly enhance the quality of the recycled rainwater. The integrated initial rainwater drainage well consists of a buried rainwater inspection well and a storage pool; the rainwater inspection well is connected with a water inlet pipe and a water outlet pipe; a bevel board precipitation structure is arranged at the bottom of the storage pool; a drainage pipe is arranged at a position a certain distance from the pool bottom; a lower sink and a flow baffle plate are arranged between the rainwater inspection well and the storage pool; at the highest water level, short flow is formed between the water inlet pipe and the water outlet pipe, so the later rainwater passes through the rainwater inspection well and directly enters the water outlet pipe to be recycled; the initial rainwater is drained in the storage pool; and after the rainwater runoff stops, the rainwater in the storage pool is slowly drained from the drainage pipe and stopped at the effective lowest water level. The integrated initial rainwater draining well has the advantages that: the structure is simple, the well operates in an unmanned way, a power supply is saved, the well is easy to maintain, polluted rainwater can be collected effectively, the drainage pipe is hardly blocked, the blocked drainage pipe is easy to smooth after being blocked and the buried drainage pipe is buried so that the appearance of the environment is not influenced.

A sealing system for a water flow control gate is provided. Each of a plurality of panels has an upper edge extending the length of the panel with a flat surface rounded upward to a wall at the rear side of the panel. The lower edge of each panel has a central perpendicular foot extending the length of the panel with side flanges and a neck between the central perpendicular foot and the rest of the panel. At each end of each panel is a vertical channel extending across the end of the panel. A horizontal sealing strip on each panel surrounds the central perpendicular foot and extending the length of the panel and a vertical sealing strip is positioned within each vertical channel, so that water flow through the water flow control gate is prevented by the horizontal sealing strips between adjacent stacked panels and by the vertical sealing strips between the ends of each panel and the frame.

The invention relates to an ice-making device of a refrigerator. In the invention, a first ice-making device casing and a second ice-making device casing are arranged inside a freezing chamber door for opening and closing the main freezing chamber of the refrigerator, mounting space is formed between a door frame inside the freezing chamber door and the top surface of the first ice-making device. A water tank is disassembly arranged inside mounting space, and water storage space of the water tank stores water. The water which is stored in the water storage space is selectively supplied into an ice-making plate which is positioned in the arrangement space of the casing of the first ice-making device under the effect of a valve arranged on the bottom surface of the water tank and used for making ice. Moreover, the ice blocks which are produced by the ice-making plate are stored in an ice block storage device which is arranged in the second ice-making device casing. The invention can cause the ice-making to be cleaner and more hygienic.

A T-shaped valve includes an improved fitting structure is disclosed. A T-shaped valve has a connecting pipe and a branch pipe carrying a control valve. The connecting pipe has an inlet end provided with the fitting structure that includes a receiving section of the connecting pipe defining a receiving portion at the inlet end; an adapter having fixed to the receiving portion and peripherally formed with a flange; and a nut internally formed with a peripheral stepped section for retaining the flange such that the adapter is allowed to rotate with respect to the nut. The T-shaped valve in virtue of the improved fitting structure can be properly installed without repeated adjustment and reinstallation. Furthermore, components of the T-shaped valve are made of alternative material instead of lead-containing metal, so the T-shaped valve ensures water quality.

A washing machine and a water level control method thereof that can supply an appropriate amount of water based on the amount of laundry using a conventional water level sensor even when the washing machine has a holeless rotary drum. The water level control method includes supplying water between the water tub and the rotary drum, introducing the supplied water into the rotary drum, discharging the introduced water out of the rotary drum, and detecting the water level of the water remaining in the water tub, and comparing the detected water level with a predetermined water level and, when the detected water level is below the predetermined water level, resupplying water between the water tub and the rotary drum until the detected water level reaches the predetermined water level.

The invention discloses an alga multiplication device assembling ship which comprises a ship body. An assembly line device is mounted on the ship body. Guide grooves are arranged on the lateral sides of the ship body. Chained conveying belts are arranged on the assembly line device and protruding traction protruding balls are processed on the conveying belts. Tail end covers are arranged at two ends of the chained conveying belts, and reserved grooves for allowing the traction protruding balls to pass are processed on the tail end covers. Lifting platforms are arranged near to the lateral sides of the chained conveying belts, and reciprocate pushing plates are arranged near to the upward sides of the lifting platforms. Parallel sliding chutes are processed on the upper surfaces of the lifting platforms. Soaking sliding chute containers are arranged on one sides, below the reciprocate pushing plates, near to the lifting platforms. Each soaking sliding chute container is provided with a water tank capable of storing liquid and an edge opening on one side of each water tank extends outwards to be near to each lifting platform. Parallel sliding chutes are processed on the surfaces of the outward-extending edge openings, and extend to the bottoms of the water tanks along the side walls of the water tanks. The alga multiplication device assembling ship has the advantages of novel structure, rapidness in slicing and assembling, low requirement on slicing and assembling accuracy, and applicability to fish-shelter application distribution on a large scale.

An animal watering valve has an elastomeric diaphragm disposed in a bore of a housing upstream of a valve seat and having apertures formed therethrough for the passage of water. A valve stem has a head clamped between the diaphragm and the valve seat and a tail that is laterally deflectable to move the valve stem head relative to the diaphragm from a seated position. Upon moving it to an unseated position, the valve stem head pivots relative to the valve seat to permit water to flow out of the valve. At least portions of the flow aperture outlets in the diaphragm are located radially inwardly of and axially upstream of the upstream surface of the valve stem head.

A water flow control device for installation between a water supply line and a nozzle, shower head or the like, whereby the water flow control device comprises a handle member connected to a valve member for controlling the flow of water between full flow and reduced flow, whereby the assembly and installation of the water flow control device ensures that the handle to control the water flow is oriented the same way for every installation.

A connector assembly may have a cover installed to a connector for curving a cable extending from a lead-out portion of a housing in a direction different from a lead-out direction of the cable. The cover may have a hood portion that covers the lead-out portion of the housing and a slit that is formed in the hood portion and where through the cable is inserted. The housing may have an outer shell portion that is disposed on an outer side of the hood portion of the cover and covers at least a portion of the hood portion.

The prevent invention comprises a non-returning pipe, pressure controller and pressure-resisting ring respectively, whose larger ring-shaped side exactly resists the water inlet edge of the non-returning pipe, in which some interlinked vents are designed on the larger ring-shaped side while a leakage-proof pad on the ladder-shaped side for the pressure-resisting ring. In that way, the pressure-resisting ring is pushed towards the pressure control and the leakage-proof pad exactly would be absorbed by the vacuum at the edge of central hole in the case of water's access to the non-returning pipe. And the pressure-resisting ring can eliminate the vacuum absorption with its gravity and air suction to form an unobstructed water flow and block backward the water inlet edge of the non-returning pipe to prevent the water flow's reflux from access to the interior of the non-returning pipe for longer service life of water transport pipeline and balance the returning water operation safety. Thereby, it not only would not easily be involved in denaturation and failure, but also has simple structure and exact operation besides its easy assembly.

The present invention relates to apparatuses, methods, and systems for removing sediment from waterway bottoms and pumping the sediment through pipelines. More particularly, the present invention relates to apparatuses, methods, and systems for sediment control and altering the average effective depth in a section of rivers, streams and channels for maintaining the navigability of waterways and coastal restoration. The apparatus and method of the present invention including a means for preventing and removing blockages of water flow in the pipelines.

The invention discloses a novel dual temperature controlled electric kettle socket which comprises a dual temperature controlled base and a cover plate, wherein an operating circuit, a water boiling automatic cut-off device and a dry heating prevention device are mounted in the dual temperature controlled base; the water boiling automatic cut-off device comprises a metal sheet in clearance fit with a steam hole of a kettle body, a keystroke, a spring leaf and a steam push rod capable of controlling the on and off of the operating circuit; positioning pin bodies are hinged on two sides of a central pivot of the keystroke; positioning pin holes are formed on the positioning pin bodies; correspondingly, fixing holes matched with the positioning pin holes are formed on the dual temperature controlled base; pins penetrate through the positioning pin holes and the fixing holes at the same time; the dry heating prevention device comprises a dry heating prevention metal sheet, a dry heating prevention push rod capable of controlling the on and off of the operating circuit, and a safety pillar; and the safety pillar is fixed in the cover plate, wherein one end of the safety pillar is in contact with a flange plane part of an electric heating tube, and the other end of the safety pillar is connected with a safety spring. The novel dual temperature controlled electric kettle socket has the function of cutting off the power automatically when water is boiled, prevents dry heating, saves cost and can effectively prevent influence of steam to circuit elements.

A cold water inlet for a tank of a water heater is provided. The inlet includes an inlet conduit configured to extend toward a flue extending upwardly through the tank. The inlet conduit includes a proximal, intermediate, and distal conduit portion, the distal portion terminating at a closed end configured to reduce the amount of the water flow directed toward the flue. The cold water inlet further includes flow openings defined in the distal portion to permit the water flow to exit the inlet conduit. Deflectors are positioned along the distal portion proximal respective ones of the flow openings, and are oriented for deflecting the water flow. The closed end and the deflectors of the inlet conduit coact, as the water flows into the tank, to direct the water flow away from the flue and toward the side wall and bottom of the tank, thereby reducing an accumulation of scale.

The present invention provides a fuel cell stack with a water drainage structure, which can effectively drain condensed water and prevent water from flowing into unit cells by combining an end anode plate (EAP) and an end cathode plate (ECP), which are formed by modifying an anode plate (AP) and cathode plate (CP) respectively. In doing so, the modified anode plate (AP) and cathode plate (CP) are converted into a dummy cell which is positioned at the end portions of the fuel cell stack.

The invention relates to a drainage assembly of an indoor unit of an air conditioner. The drainage assembly comprises a drainage assembly and a blowing structure, wherein the drainage chamber comprises a water outlet; the blowing structure can generate an air flow; the air flow can push a liquid and / or a solid in the drainage channel to move to the water outlet and / or to move out of the drainage channel through the water outlet. By arranging the blowing structure to provide auxiliary power to movement of the liquid (for example, condensate water) and / or the solid (for example, foreign matterssuch as dust and impurities) in the drainage channel, the flowing speed of water in the drainage channel can be accelerated, the drainage speed of the drainage channel is accelerated and accumulated water is prevented from being generated in the drainage channel; moreover, solid foreign matters in the drainage channel are promoted to be discharged to solve the problems that the water flow is unsmooth and a lot of condensate water is accumulated in the drainage channel as the foreign matters are prevented from blocking the water outlet of the drainage channel, so that the hidden danger of waterleakage of the indoor unit of the air conditioner is eliminated.