FILTRATION CONTAINER by

George Page

DESCRIPTION

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No.

61/143,072, filed on April 4, 2015, entitled "Purification Filters and Containers that Apply ^* .

COPYRIGHTS

[0002] All rights, including copyrights. In the material included herein are vested In and the property of the Applicant. The Applicant retains and reserves all rights in the material included herein, and grants permission to reproduce the material only in connection with reproduction of the granted patent and for no other purpose.

BACKGROUND

[0003] Human factors adversely decrease the adoption of first world technologies in developing markets. Due to the experiences of poverty, malnutrition, and a lack of education, high-tech, mechanical solutions fail to become adopted in developing countries because the user experience is not taken into account. Thus, competing high-tech water technologies are not solving the rate of child sickness, disease, and death as it relates to unsafe water consumption in developing markets. In order for a product market fit to be achieved, the human factors, user experience, and human conditions need to be studied. The appropriate solution adapts technology for the intended user to combine design and appropriate technology to achieve a product market fit.

[0004] Common water treatment technologies Involve complex solutions that involve mechanical pumps, chemical disinfectants, or electric reliance. In developing markets, where the average education level is on a 3rd grade reading level, complex solutions may be too difficult to understand or implement. Gravity flow filtration, a process using the weight of water to push thru filter media, is the simplest form of filtration known to exist, because it does not require pumps, mechanisms, or chemical processing to disinfect contaminants. With gravity flow filtration, water before filtration may be introduced polluted, and may exit purified depending on the water's origin. The background of this invention is using an improved gravity flow filtration system that will take water from any lake, river, or stream, and make it safe to consume.

[0005] Gravity Flow Filtration is a point-of-use gravity-flow filter that uses a combination of fabric, membrane filtration and coating that has an absorption element and an antl-microbial element Mended together.

(0006] The US Environmental Protection Agency recommends point-of-use filters when boiling water, a more time consuming process, is not an option. Additionally, of the 5 water filtering methods that meet EPA standards for lower pathogen counts under ideal conditions, the Gravity Flow FHtration style of filtration comes out on top. Some of the methods include boing water, using chemical treatment like chlorine dioxide tablets, UV light purification, filtration that requires batteries and filtration. While each method offers its advantages, the Journal of Family Practice uses EPA standards to conclude the fofowfng:

• Chemical treatment is usually either expensive, can take up to 4 hours, leaves a poor taste, and can harmful to those pregnant women and those with thyroid diseases.

• Boiling water may require large amounts of fuel and is time consuming.

• UV light purification might not work in turbid conditions

Also the requirement of batteries for some filters may significantly shorten the life of a filter and may also be a hindrance in the case that a person does not have access to batteries in time or runs low on battery during the filtering process.

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SUMMARY

[0008] The purpose of the filtration container is to provide clean drinking water to users in remote scenarios with effective high flow filtration without the need for external energy sources or the complexity of other systems. Water from any lake, river, stream, or other may be put through the filtration container. The filtration container is designed to be less than 11 inches in height and configured for upright placement on a refrigerator shelf.

[0009] The filtration container is made of a reinforced plastic material to provide strength and durability. Alternative material design options include: plastic, rubber, metal, or similar. The containers include a top segment, a pour-through or melt-through Alter mechanism configured to receive water poured or melted through the top segment of the container into the filter mechanism to produce filtered water. The filter mechanism includes nano copper, nano carbon nano titanium, or alternative nanoparticles that are operative to kill bacteria when the water contacts the filter mechanism. The containers also include a holding receptacle operative to store filtered water within the hokfing receptacle and a bottom segment having a dispensing member operative to activate the filtered water to be released from the bottom segment such as into a glass or cup for consumption.

[0010] A lid cover is opened such that water may be deposited into the container top segment by pouring or melting ice. Alternatively, the top segment of the container may be submerged into contaminated water to allow for depositing water into the filtration container system.

[0011] One filter sheet layer is a woven fabric. Within the filter mechanism are multiple layers of additional woven fabric elements designed to purify water using filtration alone. A second sheet layer is an absorption layer that consists of coconut shell carbon and ion exchange resin. The purpose of the second layer is to absorb organics, heavy metals, and bad tastes and smells. A third sheet layer includes nano copper, nano carbon nano titanium, or alternative nanopartides that are operative to kill bacteria when the water contacts the filter mechanism..

[0012] The container Is designed to store water in a holding receptacle after It passing through the filter mechanism.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0013] Figure 1 represents the general description of the filtration container system;

Figure 2 represents an exploded view of the titration container system;

Figure 3 represents a bottom view of the filtration mechanism disc; and

Figure 4 represents an exploded view of filtration mechanism disc

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0014] As illustrated In Fig. 1, titration container 100 represents a water filter mechanism and storage container that allows water from any in-home/outdoor system to be inputted Into the device, filtered to drinking water quality, and stored within the container for consumption. Lkt plate 101 is a placard that can be removed/changed based on third party labeling preferences. When liquid is initialy inputted into device 100', holding receptacle 102 allows for the storage of filtered water. The holding receptacle body 102 can be rest upon an elevation stand 103 to allow for serving water from body 102 at an elevated height Stand 103 Is tall enough to alow for serving liquid into a cup or bowl for drinking. Body 102 may be removed from the stand to place inside of a refrigerator to make cold water of the contents.

[0015] As illustrated in Fig.2, filtration container 200 represents a water filter container in an exploded detail view. Top Rd 201 is removed to expose the inside of the top segment or filtration bowl 202 within the container device. The Nd 201 may be flipped over on its opposite side to rest by a consumer. The filtration container 200 collects and stores purified water after it passes thru titration bowl 202, for consumption. Filtration bowl 202 has a bottom filtration disc 203 that may be connected to filtration bowl 202 by a screw thread, attachment lock, or friction fit to create a hermetically tight seal. When connected, filtration bowl 202 collects water and as It pods, head pressure accumulates to the point that gravity pressure pulls water thru the filter media allowing gravity filtration to filter and purify water. Water that is stored in the holding receptacle 102, may exit the container 200 by using a mechanically operated lever spigot 204. Spigot 204 allows for rapid flow dispensing of liquid contents from 200. The holding receptacle

102 may removably rest on top of a stand 207 used to elevate the container 200 for easier dispensing.

[0016] Once the container is opened, the filtration disc 203 can be viewed by a consumer as Mustrated in Fig.3. At the top of the filtration disc is a indicator strip 301 which is shown as a color indicator. This indicator consists of a thin red strip wedged into the crevice of the surface of the plastic filter disc 203, covered with a sugar substrate complex that dissolves over time to reveal the red underiayment strip color. Once the red color underiayment layer appears in indicator strip 301. It is a warning signal to the consumer that the plastic filter disc 203 needs replacement Plastic filter disc 203 contains a multiple layered fabric woven fiber that is made up of nano-copper, na no-silver, and nano-titanium compounds that are compressed into a fiber and woven into a fabric and extruded into a filter. Plastic filter thread 302 allows the filter disc 203 to be screwed on, attached to, or connected into the filtration bowl 104. Filtration bowl 104 is a depressed void space that contains plastic filter disc 103 as its bottom surface. Plastic filter disc

103 screwed into filtration bowl 104 using bottom hand grip 303, alowing water to be collected and pool within the void area and after the level reaches approximately 1.5 Inches, gravity pulls the water thru the filtration media thus filtering the liquid water.

[0017] As Ikistrated in Fig.4, filter mechanism or disc 203 containers multiple layers to aNow for effective removal of bacteria, heavy metals, solids, protozoa, and other contaminates. The first sheet layer 401 is a sediment reduction layer and is made of woven fabric material. This layer may be as small as 0.2 micron in porous woven fabric filter material. The second sheet layer 402 is an absorption layer comprised of coconut shell carbon and ion exchange resin molecule absorbents that allow for absorbing organlcs, heavy metals, and other dissolved solids. The