Floating dispensers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9862626-B2
Application number	US-201514544609-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2015
Priority date	Oct 13, 2011
Publication date	Jan 9, 2018
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018

Abstract

A floating dispenser for floatingly delivering a dispersant or dispersants to a body of water with the floating dispenser floating in an upright condition when a dispersant is present in a dispenser cartridge of the floating dispenser with the dispenser self inverting 180 degrees in response to consumption of the dispersant in the dispenser cartridge to thereby provide a visual alert that one should replace the dispenser cartridge in the dispenser with a fresh dispenser cartridge.

First claim

We claim:

1. The method of treating a body of water comprising the steps of:
attaching a first dispenser having a first dispersant therein to a second dispenser having a second dispersant therein wherein the second dispenser with the second dispersant is less buoyant than the first dispenser;
positioning the first dispenser with respect to the second dispenser to select a dispersant rate of the second dispersant;
placing the first dispenser with the second dispenser attached thereto into the body of water, wherein the first dispenser with the second dispenser attached thereto float in a first position with the first dispenser above the second dispenser, and
allowing the first dispenser with the second dispenser attached thereto to self-invert to a second position in which the first dispenser is below the second dispenser in response to consumption of the dispersant in the second dispenser.

2. The method of claim 1 including the step of removing the second dispenser and the first dispenser from the body of water after the second dispenser becomes more buoyant than the first dispenser.

3. The method of claim 2 including the step of replacing the second dispenser with a further dispenser and placing the first dispenser and the further dispenser into the body of water to continue the treating of the body of water.

4. The method of claim 3 including the step of securing either the first dispenser or the second dispenser to a structure to restrain the first dispenser and the second dispenser from movement about the body of water.

5. The method of claim 1 comprising the step of grasping the first dispenser in one hand and the second dispenser in the other hand and rotating the first dispenser with respect to the second dispenser to select the dispersant rate of the second dispersant by increasing or decreasing the number of fluid ports in fluid communication between the first dispenser and the second dispenser.

Assignees

• King Joseph A
• Johnson Jeffrey D
• Enderson Lyle
• Freeberg Paul
• Dalland Donald
• Goeman Terry
• King Tech Inc

Inventors

• King Joseph A
• Johnson Jeffrey D
• Enderson Lyle
• Freeberg Paul
• Dalland Donald
• Goeman Terry

Classifications

• C02F1/505

  by oligodynamic treatment · CPC title

• B01F1/0027

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• C02F2103/42

  from bathing facilities, e.g. swimming pools · CPC title

• C02F1/76

  with halogens or compounds of halogens {(C02F1/4674 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• C02F1/688 Primary

  Devices in which the water progressively dissolves a solid compound · CPC title