Floating Pool Sanitizer Dispenser with Tilted Axis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing compositions for sanitizing and algae control in bodies of water, such as swimming pools, face challenges with calcium hypochlorite's compatibility with other chemicals, safety concerns, and the need for enhanced algicidal properties and agglomerating agents to remove suspended solids, while maintaining effective sanitization.
Innovation Solution
A composition combining calcium hypochlorite, a water-soluble zinc salt, and sodium aluminate as an agglomerating agent, safely combined and dispensed using a floating chemical dispenser to treat bodies of water, ensuring effective sanitization and algae control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If calcium hypochlorite is combined with other chemical compositions to enhance algicidal properties and agglomerating capabilities, then the effectiveness of algae control and suspended solids removal is improved, but safety concerns arise due to calcium hypochlorite's averse compatibility with many chemical compositions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a polymer coating as an intermediary layer between calcium hypochlorite and other chemicals. This coating acts as a protective barrier that prevents direct harmful interactions while allowing controlled release of the chemicals into the water, thus maintaining safety while enabling effective combination of multiple chemical functions
Solution Approach 2:
The invention creates a composite material structure where calcium hypochlorite, zinc salts for algae control, and agglomerating agents are combined within a polymer-coated matrix. This composite approach allows multiple chemical components to work together effectively while the polymer coating ensures their safe combination and controlled release
2Ease of operation
If multiple chemical components are combined in one composition for simultaneous sanitization and algae control, then the complexity of treatment is reduced, but the difficulty of safe storage and transport increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the chemical composition into distinct functional components (calcium hypochlorite for sanitization, zinc salts for algae control, and agglomerating agents) that are physically separated within the polymer matrix. This segmentation allows each component to be stored and transported safely in its own functional zone, reducing the risks associated with mixing incompatible chemicals while maintaining the ability to work together when applied
3Reliability
If calcium hypochlorite is used as the primary sanitizer, then effective sanitization is achieved, but the reduction in available chlorine for sanitization occurs when combined with other compounds
Solution Approach 1:
The polymer coating serves as an intermediary that controls the release rate of calcium hypochlorite, ensuring that chlorine is released gradually and remains available for sanitization purposes rather than being immediately consumed by reactions with other components in the composition
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The composition provides enhanced algicidal properties and facilitates the removal of suspended solids, ensuring continuous and effective sanitization and algae control, while ensuring safe storage, transport, and use, with the dispenser's design ensuring controlled release and indication of exhaustion.
Implementation Method 1
The free end float is joined with the bottom wall within the container. The free end float has a second center of flotation. The free end float is positioned so that the second center of flotation is off-center from the first center of flotation.
Implementation Method 2
calcium hypochlorite...for continuous and effective sanitisation
Implementation Method 3
a water soluble zinc salt for controlling algae
Implementation Method 4
an agglomerating agent to facilitate the removal of suspended solids from the body of water
Data Source
AI summary
A composition for the treatment of a liquid, particularly a body of water, such as a swimming pool, spa, or the like. The composition includes calcium hypochlorite, a water soluble zinc salt for controlling algae, and sodium aluminate as an agglomerating agent that may safely be combined with said calcium hypochlorite and said zinc salt. A floating chemical dispenser for containing and dispensing chemicals to treat a body of water. The dispenser includes an upper end float, a container adapted to contain chemicals, the container removably joined with the upper end float, and a free end float joined with the container. The free end float is configured so that a central axis of the container and upper end float is not substantially orthogonal to a surface of the water.