US 20060011529 A1
An aquarium filter to increase dissolved oxygen and improve water quality comprised of a box containing a segregated water inlet tank, a water collection tank, and multiple filtration tanks; water introduced into the water inlet tank being pumped by a submerged motor and mixed with air introduced from the ambient to be flushed to the water collection tank; the water being bumped against bio-filtration balls in filtration tank for the beneficial microbes to get attached to the filtration balls to consume hazardous microbes.
1. An aquarium filter including a box, submerged pump and multiple bio-filtration balls; the box roughly in the shape of a triangle, a lower lateral partition being disposed near a base plate of the box; a drainage area being defined between the lower lateral partition and the base plate; the drainage area connecting through the aquarium with multiple holes; multiple vertical partitions segregating the space above the lower lateral partition into a water inlet tank at center, a water collection tank on the corner and multiple filtration tanks; multiple holes being disposed on the lower lateral partition at the bottom of each filtration tank to connect through the drainage area; multiple bio-filtration balls each comprised of a hollow sphere containing a filter being placed in each filtration tank; the water inlet tank connecting through the aquarium with multiple holes; an upper lateral partition with a knocked-off corner covering up the water inlet tank and each filtration tank; a through hole being disposed on the upper lateral partition at where in relation to the water inlet tank; multiple holes being disposed on the upper lateral partition at where in relation to each filtration tank; a water pumping pipe extending from the submerged pump into the water inlet tank via the trough hole in the upper lateral partition; a water outlet pipe extending from the submerged pump into the water collection tank; an air inlet pipe being connected to the water outlet pipe; a lid covering up an opening at the top of the box; and a gap permitting the air inlet pipe and a power cable from the submerged pump to reach out of the box before being sealed.
(a) Technical Field of the Invention
The present invention is related to an aquarium filter, and more particularly to one promotes dissolved oxygen and improves water quality in the aquarium.
(b) Description of the Prior Art
With increased income, people are paying more attention to leisure activities and improved living environment. Other than landscaping, pets are major companions for many people in searching for consolation to their souls. Pets include animals and aquatic species.
Most of the aquatic species are raised in an aquarium. Excrements and residual feeds constitute the sources of contamination to the aquarium to affect the water quality and poor quality will easily cause the aquatic species to become sick. Meanwhile, the dissolved oxygen in the water fails to meet as required. Therefore, a filter and an air bulb generator are adapted to the aquarium to filtrate the water and provide sufficient amount of oxygen to maintain a living space desirable for and upgrade the surviving rate of the aquatic species. Though the air bulb generator is usually disposed at the bottom of the aquarium, the time is too short to generate sufficient oxygen since the air bulbs rises fast to the surface of the water. As a result, only a limited amount of oxygen is dissolved in the water. Furthermore, the filter of the prior art filtrates only solid substances including the excrements and is unable to filtrate microbes in the water. The hazardous microbes surviving the filtration naturally will deteriorate the water quality. As a result, frequent replacement with fresh water is required and becomes a burden to the owner.
The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide an aquarium filter to increase the amount of dissolved oxygen and improve the water quality for maintaining an optimal living environment for the aquatic species. To achieve the purpose, the present invention is comprised of a box containing a segregated water inlet tank, a water collection tank and multiple filtration tanks. The water in the aquarium is first introduced into the water inlet tank and the ambient air is pumped into the water inlet tank by means of a submerge motor. The water is then flushed into the water collection tank to allow more oxygen to be dissolved in the water due to the flushing before flowing into those multiple filtration tanks to impact against multiple bio-filtration balls provided in the filtration tanks for the beneficial microbes to get attached to the bio-filtration balls for consuming the hazardous microbes.
The foregoing object and summary provide only a brief introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts.
Many other advantages and features of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by way of illustrative example.
The following descriptions are of exemplary embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following description provides a convenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement of the elements described without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
An aquarium filter of the present invention is an additional item attached to the aquarium completed with an air bulb generator and a filter disposed on the top of the aquarium of the prior art. Referring to
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It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together may also find a useful application in other types of methods differing from the type described above.
While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intended to be limited to the details above, since it will be understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention.