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The invention provides the residential household owner/occupant a safeguard against major household flooding from leaking, broken, cracked or loose plumbing on water systems. It works by automatically stopping the flow of household water to the household fixtures, when the preset maximum continuous flow time period has been exceeded. Residential household occupants depend on their water systems not to break, fatigue, freeze or deteriorate to the point that a leak or flood situation arises, and normally have no protection system to protect against these types of failures causing flooding. Some causes of household flooding would be eliminated. Examples are the following: leaky faucet/garden hose or toilet flapper, broken pipe, showering too long, a washing machine or dishwasher hose fails, frozen pipe burst, or a tap left on accidentally. Many households unfortunately do suffer water flood damage, causing major insurance claims and hardships of renovations and sometimes living elsewhere while the repairs are completed. With this new residential FloodSafe system, prolonged water use (any household water flow) is detected and stopped at a predetermined time input. Valuable water is saved and disastrous floods are minimized. The Floodsafe System has a flow sensor that signals the digital timer to start. The flow sensor is initially tuned and setup to be activated by a minimal water flow set-point. Once the timer has started and maintains uninterrupted flow for a pre-set flow time (set previously by the household occupant) the water flow to the house is automatically terminated via a solenoid valve. This invention prevents wasted water and more importantly, prevents a flood in the household; then the inherent problem can be rectified by the home owner. The owner can press the reset button on the said FloodSafe System to restart the water usage monitoring for the next potential water issue.
The invention provides the residential household owner/occupant a safeguard against major household flooding from leaking, broken, cracked or loose plumbing on water systems. It works by automatically stopping the flow of household water to the household fixtures, when the preset maximum continuous flow time period has been exceeded. Residential household occupants depend on their water systems not to break, fatigue, freeze or deteriorate to the point that a leak or flood situation arises, and normally have no protection system to protect against these types of failures causing flooding. Some causes of household flooding would be eliminated. Examples are the following: leaky faucet/garden hose or toilet flapper, broken pipe, showering too long, a washing machine or dishwasher hose fails, frozen pipe burst, or a tap left on accidentally. Many households unfortunately do suffer water flood damage, causing major insurance claims and hardships of renovations and sometimes living elsewhere while the repairs are completed. With this new residential FloodSafe system, prolonged water use (any household water flow) is detected and stopped at a predetermined time input. Valuable water is saved and disastrous floods are minimized. The Floodsafe System has a flow sensor that signals the digital timer to start. The flow sensor is initially tuned and setup to be activated by a minimal water flow set-point. Once the timer has started and maintains uninterrupted flow for a pre-set flow time (set previously by the household occupant) the water flow to the house is automatically terminated via a solenoid valve. This invention prevents wasted water and more importantly, prevents a flood in the household; then the inherent problem can be rectified by the home owner. The owner can press the reset button on the said FloodSafe System to restart the water usage monitoring for the next potential water issue.
RESIDENTIAL FLOOD SAFE SYSTEM
SYSTEME DE PROTECTION CONTRE L'INONDATION RESIDENTIELLE
HORSFIELD KIRK (author)
2019-01-14
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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