| The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows: In the case of an apparatus 1. Is a self-contained apparatus for storing bath water to be used to flush toilets. 2. Is a float operated valve that is enclosed within Claim 1. 3. Is an arrangement of a pressure system used to refill toilet tanks with bath water. In the case of a process 4. Is a process for deverting water from a bathtub to a holding tank, either by means of gravity or with a pump. 5. Consists of using the water contained in Claim 1, by using a pressure system to move the water from the storage tank in Claim 1 to the toilet. |
Flush Saver, my idea of the Flush Saver is to recover the water from the bath tub. The average bath uses between 30 to 50 gallons of water, this water is ran straight into the sewer. At the same time toilets are using fresh water to flush human waste. The water from bathing is collected and reused for flushing the toilet. This can cut the use of household water in half.
This invention idea is basically to make the best use of fresh water.
The nature of my invention, so far as I know has not been thought of yet.
The idea of my invention, is to make the best use of one of our most valuable resources, fresh water. By deverting the water from bathing into a holding tank, it can be sucked out by a pump. The pump pushes the water into the toilet, at the same time storing some of the water in a pressurized tank. This pressure tank allows the pump to start and stop. That way the pump works only when the toilet gets flushed.
The first obsticle was to find a way of storing the bath water for later use. How much water to store, and what to do if there is excess water. As well as an alternative backup in case there is not enough bath water to keep the toilet pump and pressure tank from running out of water.
Inside of the tank, approximately one third of the volume of the tank, is a low water storage area and when there is not enough bath water, a float valve will lower. This will open a valve, allowing water from the fresh water pressure line in. That way there will always be enough water to keep everything functioning properly.
I feel that a storage tank of 60 gallons would be enough. This will hold the water from a large bath, and still allow 20 gallons for a backup source, allowing 10 to 20 flushes before fresh water is needed. In most houses the fresh water float valve would not need to open often.
In the event that there is excessive bath water, it would overflow near the top of the storage tank and go into the main sewer line.
So far this system is based on gravity flow from the bathtub to the holding tank. See insert #16, (figure A) for when gravity feed is not available. In this case a second pump (figure B) would be used to suck the water from the bathtub, from there it will be pushed into the holding tank (figure C). After this point the rest will work as previously described.
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