JPH048118B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a water purification and activating device, and more particularly, the present invention relates to a water purification and activation device.
This invention relates to a device that activates the bath and maintains it at an appropriate temperature at all times.

[Prior art]

Traditionally, it has been known that rocks such as Maifan stone, Sun stone, and Pearl stone have the function of activating water, and various water purification and activation devices containing these rock particles have been proposed and commercialized. However, there are problems with water circulation, insufficient activation, and, as a result, the functionality of the rock grains deteriorates early. There have also been several attempts to use the aforementioned rocks to purify and revitalize bath water, keeping the bath water at an appropriate temperature.
There are devices on the market that activate and circulate the water, but they use a layer of urethane resin filters and a large amount of rock particles, making them large and heavy. This requires a considerable amount of labor to transport and install, and urethane resin filters have a fairly large mesh, making them insufficiently effective. In addition, since the urethane resin filter is easily damaged by heat, there are problems such as requiring early replacement of the urethane resin filter.

[Purpose of the invention]

The object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned problems with conventional filtration and activating devices for water and bath water.
An object of the present invention is to provide a bath water circulation/activation device.

Another object of the present invention is that the entire device is small and lightweight, easy to transport and install,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a simple over-activation device for bath water that allows over-activation to be carried out smoothly.

[Structure of the invention]

The inventor of the present invention solved the above-mentioned problems of the conventional water or bath water superimposition/activation device, and as a result of intensive research to achieve the above object of the present invention, the present inventor has developed a filter made of a porous inorganic material. A single coarse grain of maifanite, sunstone, pearlite, mozunaite, or mixed coarse grains of these ores (hereinafter simply referred to as "ore grains")
It is called. ) and a septic tank with built-in equipment in this order, the water to be treated, even if it is bath water, is sufficiently filtered and activated, and the water discharged from the equipment is highly purified. The filter is not damaged in any way even if used continuously for a long period of time, and the function of the ore grains is not diminished. They discovered that it is possible to make the device much smaller and lighter than the previous one, and completed the present invention.

That is, in the present invention, a cylindrical filter made of a porous inorganic substance is successively placed in the uppermost position, the rubbing treatment tank, and the activation tank in the lower position. , the hollow part is vertically installed in the center of the overtank so as to be hermetically isolated from the surrounding space, and the lower end of the hollow is connected to the rubbing tank through the opening of the partition wall between the overtank and the rubbing tank. The rubbing treatment tank and the activation tank are connected by a water pipe that has one end open and connected to the partition wall opening between the two tanks, and the other end connected to the bottom wall of the activation tank and into the tank. The present invention relates to a water or bath water circulation/activation device that has a main feature in which a treated water supply pipe extending from outside the system is open-piped in a tank, and a drain pipe is attached to the bottom wall of the activation tank.

The details of the present invention will be explained below with reference to illustrated embodiments.

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the water or bath water per-activation device of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional diagram showing the per-activation device of the present invention for circulating and activating bath water. FIG. 3 is a longitudinal cross-sectional structural view of the peripheral wall of the device in the case where the device is used, and FIG. 3 is a schematic external view of a cylindrical filter installed in the filter tank of the device of the present invention.

The shape of the water or bath water superactivation device (hereinafter simply referred to as "device") of the present invention is usually cylindrical, but may be prismatic in some cases. Reference numeral 2 indicates a filter tank, and the tank has a cylindrical filter 21 erected vertically at its center. The cylindrical filter 21 has a hollow portion 22 as shown in FIG. Specifically, it is made by molding porous ceramic obtained by firing a silica-alumina material, and a specific example is the ceramic cartridge described in JP-A-58-205516. One example is a filter type. The hollow portion 22 of the cylindrical filter 21 is hermetically fixed at the tip thereof by a fixing means 23 provided on the lower surface of the lid plate 8, and at its lower end by a fixing means provided on the upper surface of the partition wall 6. 24, the filter is isolated from the space of the filter tank 2 via the filter wall of the filter. Reference numeral 5 denotes a side wall, which is formed continuously and integrally with the bottom wall 5'. However, the bottom wall 5' can be made separately from the side wall 5, and in that case, the side wall 5 member and the bottom wall 5' member are closely joined together by an appropriate sealing means to seal the inside. There is a need to.
Reference numeral 3 denotes a rubbing treatment tank located below the straining tank 2 with a partition wall 6 interposed therebetween, and has a space surrounded by the partition wall 6, side wall 5, and partition wall 7. Through holes 61, 61, . . . are bored in the center of the partition wall 6, and the space of the rubbing tank 3 communicates with the hollow portion 22 of the cylindrical filter 21 through the holes. 4
is an activation tank located below the rubbing treatment tank 3 with a partition wall 7 in between;
This is an activating tank in which ore grains 41 having an activating effect on water and bath water are densely contained in a space formed by surrounding the bath water. The ore particles may be single grains of maifanite, sunstone, pearlite, monazite, etc. known as ores that have an activating effect on water and bath water, or coarse grains of a mixture thereof, but the particle size is 5-10
Preferably, it is in the mm range. The ore particles can also contain ion exchange resin particles and activated carbon particles, if necessary. The partition wall 7 has a conduction hole 7.
1, 71... are bored, and the opening of the hole to the activation tank 4 is such that the opening at the tip of the water pipe 10 surrounds the through hole on the lower surface of the partition wall and is tightly fixed to the surface of the partition wall. This prevents direct communication with the inside of the activation tank 4. The water pipe 10 passes through the activation tank 4 and hangs down, or in some cases exits onto the side wall 5 outside the system and descends vertically along the side wall surface, extends below the bottom wall 5' of the device, forms a curved part, and extends downward. It opens into the activation tank 4 from the inside. A steel mesh cap 102 is attached to the opening. Further, a flow rate adjustable circulation pump, for example, a canned type water circulation pump 101 manufactured by Nippon Servo Co., Ltd., is attached to the curved portion of the water pipe 10. Therefore, the space of the rubbing treatment tank 3 communicates with the inside of the activation tank 4 via the water pipe 10.

In the embodiment of FIG. 1, the water supply pipe 9 is connected to the device side wall 5.
Although it rises on the outer peripheral surface of the device and opens into the tank 2, it can also vertically pass through each tank of the device and rise, and its tip opens into the tank 2. Water supply pipe 9
The other end (not shown) is connected to a water supply (not shown) if the device 1 of the invention is for water, in particular for drinking water, or to a bathtub (not shown) if it is for bath water. ).

The bottom wall 5' of the device 1 has an outlet, to which a drain pipe 11 is attached. A steel mesh cap 111 is attached above the opening in the activation tank of the discharge port. If the device 1 of the present invention is for drinking water, the other end of the discharge pipe 11 is directly connected to an appropriate water intake point (not shown), but if circulation treatment is required. It can be connected to a water supply pipe 9 for recirculation to the device 1. When the device of the present invention is for bath water, it is installed in the bathtub as a bath water supply pipe.

If the water to be treated is particularly bath water, a preliminary overtank 12 can be provided at an appropriate location on the water supply pipe 9 outside the device 1, as shown in FIG. can be more effectively activated. The structure of the preliminary filter tank 12 is the same as that of the filter tank 2, and the cylindrical filter mentioned above is similarly used as the material.

Side walls of the device 1 of the present invention, 5 lid plate 8, bottom wall 5',
Partition walls 6, 7, water supply pipe 9, water supply pipe 10, drain pipe 1
It is desirable that all the first materials are made by molding of a material that has heat resistance, pressure resistance, and chemical resistance, for example, an alloy material such as stainless steel or a resin material. Further, the cover plate 8 may be made of a transparent material such as acrylic resin if it is necessary to allow the inside of the tank 2 to be seen through.

When the device 1 of the present invention is for bathing water, the entire surface of the side wall 5 and the bottom wall 5' is covered with an insulating layer 51 as shown in FIG.
It is covered with a planar heating element 52 as described in Japanese Patent No. 51-22629, then covered with a heat insulating layer 53 of heat-resistant foamed resin, and finally a covering wall of an appropriate metal plate (usually a decorative board). Attach 54. In that case, a lead wire is connected between the energization switch (not shown) to the planar heating element 52 and the temperature sensor (not shown) of the bathtub, and if the temperature of the bath water is below the set temperature, the Then, the energization switch is turned on and the planar heating element 52 is energized so that the bath water in the tank holder 1 is heated.

The device of the present invention can of course be constructed to be detachable at appropriate locations in view of the necessity of internal inspection and replacement of the cylindrical filter 21 and the activating grains 41.

Furthermore, in the apparatus of the present invention of the embodiment shown in FIG. 9 or may be attached to the drain pipe 11 as the case may be.

The scale of the device 1 of the present invention can be changed as appropriate depending on the purpose of use, that is, whether it is for drinking water or bathing water, and the place of use. For example, the main body of device 1 is 410 mm (outer diameter) x 400 mm (height).
The heights of the overtank, rolling treatment layer, and activation tank shall be 255mm, 25mm, and 120mm, respectively.

To explain the operation of the device of the present invention when it is used for bath water, first, the device is filled with bath water from a bathtub, and the circulation pump 101 is filled with bath water.
When activated, the bath water that has been superactivated in the device is discharged from the discharge pipe 11 and sent to the bathtub, and at the same time, the bath water in the bathtub is sucked into the water supply pipe 9 and transferred to the overtank 2.
The ore is filtered through a cylindrical filter 21 made of porous inorganic material such as porous ceramic, enters the hollow part 22, and then enters the activation tank 4 via the rolling treatment tank 3, where the aforementioned ore is filled. It is activated upon contact with the grains 41, and the activated water enters the bath. As described above, the planar heating element 52 is provided on the outer surface of the side wall 5 and the bottom wall 5', and as a result, the water in the system is heated, so that the ore grains 41 are also heated. The ore grains 41 are heated, thereby further increasing the activation effect of the ore grains 41 on water.

The reason why the rubbing treatment tank 3 is provided between the heating tank 2 and the activation tank 4 in the water or bath water over-activating device of the present invention is as follows. That is, in the activating tank 2, water passes through the cylindrical filter 21, and the water that is filtered and enters the hollow part 22 is sucked through the water pipe 10 by the action of the circulation pump 101 and directly supplied to the activating tank 4. If you want to send it to
The overspeeding of the water by the cylindrical filter 21 is slow due to its component parts, which makes the overflow of water in the desired manner, but the suction of water using the circulation pump 101 is The speed will anyway exceed the overspeed, which causes the cylindrical filter 21 to
A problem sometimes arises in which the parts come loose from the fixed parts.
Further, in this case, the water passing through the cylindrical filter 21 is forced by the suction pressure of the circulation pump 101, and the water thus forced to pass becomes less gentle.

However, when the rubbing tank 3 is provided between the overtank 2 and the activation tank 4, the suction pressure by the circulation pump 101 against the cylindrical filter 21 is buffered by the gap formed by the rubbing tank 3. As a result, the overfunction of the cylindrical filter 21 is exhibited in a desirable manner, and the water is passed in a desirable manner, and the cylindrical filter 21 is detached from the fixed part as described above. No problems arise.

In addition, when operating the apparatus of the present invention to circulate water, in the rubbing treatment tank 3, the water suction speed by the circulation pump 101 exceeds the overspeed of the water in the cylindrical filter, as described above. The inside of the treatment tank 3 is rarely filled with water, and usually a depressurized space is formed, and when the water passes through that space, it expands and is further softened (in the case of bath water, this is what is called a hot water massage). contact with the ore grains 41 in the activation tank 4 is preferably carried out and activated to a desired state. In this way, the bath water in the bathtub is always kept at bathing temperature without using any other heat source such as gas or oil, and the bath water does not have any strange odor even if it is not disposed of after use. It is similar to hot spring bath water and remains clear at all times. Furthermore, the bath water is kept neutral to slightly alkaline.

By the way, the device of the present invention was used to circulate the bath water for two months without replacing it, and after five adults bathed every day during that period, the water quality of the bath water was tested. There was no strange odor or taste, and the PH value was Due to the weak alkalinity, not only coliform bacteria but also general bacteria were not detected, nor was the presence of harmful metals detected.

On the other hand, when the device of the present invention is for drinking water, even if the water passed through the device and discharged has a strange odor before treatment, the odor will completely disappear, the water will have a taste, and the pH value will be is neutral to weakly alkaline, and tap water usually has 100% chlorine ions.
mg/ or more, in some cases as high as 150 to 190 mg/, but the content is extremely reduced, and not only coliform bacteria but also general bacteria are completely absent, and in other respects it far exceeds the standards under the Water Supply Act. It starts to go down.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The device of the present invention is particularly effective when the water to be treated is bath water, and when the bath water is circulated through the device by energizing the surface heating zone, the action of the activator is further enhanced, and the bath water is considerably activated. The temperature of the bath water is always maintained at a suitable bathing temperature without using any other heat source, and the bath water is always clear even without changing it. Since there is no need to dispose of water, there is no need to worry about pollution, it is safe and economical, and if you use it at home, you can enjoy the feeling of being at a hot spring in the comfort of your own home. Furthermore, in the over-activation device of the present invention, even if a considerable amount of solid matter adheres to the filter, this will only increase the over-effect of the water.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the water permeation/activation device of the present invention, and Fig. 2 shows the water permeation/activation device of the present invention used for circulating and activating bath water. , is a vertical cross-sectional structural view of the peripheral wall of the device, and FIG. 3 is a schematic external view of a cylindrical filter installed in the filter tank of the device of the present invention. 1... Entire water filter/activation device, 2... Supertank, 3... Massage treatment tank, 4... Activation tank, 5... Side wall, 5'... Bottom wall, 6, 7... Partition wall , 8... Lid plate, 9... Water supply pipe, 10... Water pipe, 11... Discharge pipe, 21... Cylindrical filter, 22... Hollow part, 41... Ore grains, 101... Circulation pump, 5
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Insulating layer, 52... Planar heating zone, 53... Heat retention layer, 54... Covering wall.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An over-tank using a cylindrical filter made of a porous inorganic substance is placed in the uppermost position, a rubbing treatment tank in the middle position, and an activation tank in the lower part. Installed vertically so that the hollow part in the center is sealed and isolated from the surrounding space,
The hollow lower end communicates with the rubbing tank through an opening in the partition wall between the straining tank and the rubbing tank, and the rubbing tank and the activation tank have one end connected to the opening in the partition wall between the two tanks. is connected in an open manner, and the other end is connected to the bottom wall of the activation tank by a water supply pipe that connects openly into the tank, and a water supply pipe to be treated extending from outside the system is connected to the tank in an open manner, and a drainage pipe is connected to the bottom wall of the activation tank. A water circulation/activation device characterized by being equipped with.