Bubble King Skimmers

[magicman76]

Horizontal labyrinthine contact chamber. Patented already.

whould you happen to know the patent number?

 

[LA-Lawman]

I did a search at the US patent office. found nothing for that term... but if you look under skimmer you find one for this.... it is in the top five...

Horizontal reaction chamber comprised of nested, concentric tubes for use in water purification

Abstract
The present invention includes a horizontal foam fractionation protein skimmer for removing organic waste material (dissolved organic compounds) from organic loaded water. The protein skimmer includes a horizontal reaction chamber connected to a foam collection chamber in which protein-loaded foam containing organic waste material is collected. The reaction chamber is comprised of a series of horizontally-directed, nested, concentric tubes for increasing the number and decreasing the size of bubbles to facilitate efficient removal of dissolved organic compounds. Each horizontal tube has either one or several small openings that are offset from the openings on the adjacent tube at a small angle, typically 10.degree.. The openings are formed by either a single slit that runs along the length of each tube, or by a series of holes that runs along the length of each tube. Organic-loaded water is pumped through tubing into the reaction chamber. As water moves through the tubing, gas (e.g., air) is drawn in by eductors, creating a gas/water mixture. The gas/water mixture is distributed into the horizontal reaction chamber through a lateral manifold that tangentially injects the gas/water mixture at approximately equidistant points along the length of the reaction chamber. The gas/water mixture enters the largest of the nested horizontal tubes and is forced through the small opening(s) into the next smaller diameter tube. Water travels circumferentially through adjacent tubes in a counter-current movement. The most central concentric tube carries the water out of the reaction chamber into the foam collection chamber. The water left behind is considerably more pure and free of contaminates and exits through tubing in the bottom of the foam collection chamber. The horizontal protein skimmer of the present invention is sectioned into individual components that facilitate transport and on-site assembly.

Inventors: Curlee; Richard Kevin (Bradenton, FL); Paetsch; Richard H. (Sarasota, FL)
Assignee: Mote Marine Laboratory (Sarasota, FL)
Appl. No.: 692510
Filed: October 24, 2003
Current U.S. Class: 210/703; 119/264; 210/169; 210/221.2; 261/79.2; 261/156; 261/DIG.75; 366/336; 366/338; 366/341
Intern'l Class: A01K 063/04; C02F001/24
Field of Search: 210/703,169,221.2 261/79.2,156,DIG. 75 366/336,338,341 119/264

 

[Anonymous]

Yep, that's it. Kevin was my mentor, taught me everything I know about aquariums, especially exhibit aquariums and large scale life support. He's now at Georgia.

 

[Anonymous]

Galleon wrote:

Yep, that's it. Kevin was my mentor, taught me everything I know about aquariums, especially exhibit aquariums and large scale life support. He's now at Georgia.

Tell Kevin to use red pipe so that his skimmers will be a smashing success. :lol:

Louey

 

[magicman76]

LA-Lawman.. could you leave a link to the patent? I cant make heads or tales of the search fuction (that one was not in the top 5 or 50 for that matter when I searched for skimmer) that or the name of the patent would be very helpfull..
did you try to click on the images link when looking at the patent? I usually have problems seeing those as well..
nevermind.. I found it with a search on the inventors..

 

[Anonymous]

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthrea ... ost6091383

I hate to post this here, but it says something about BK customer service.

 

[LA-Lawman]

here is the link.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars ... skimmer%22

 

[Anonymous]

Anemonebuff wrote:

I hate to post this here, but it says something about BK customer service.

I suppose any company can have bad customer service once in awhile.

I read BK threads until my eyes turned blue over the weekend. Read Deltec threads too. Saw an occasional bad experience with both. The majority of owners were very pleased, if not gushing over their new toys.

Found plenty of bad Euroreef threads too.

There's no turning back now. Whatever my experience turns out to be will be documented here. I expect to have a positive experience. We'll see.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

I pulled the trigger.

The BK will be here before next weekend. So as long as I don't run into some real strange plumbing issues, it will be running by next Sunday

I'm sick. I know.

I will certainly take pictures of it. Probably not with a bulldog on top, since I don't own a bulldog. But there will be pics

Louey

Maybe you can borrow a sheltie from barking sheltie.

Is that the same model you are getting?

 

[Anonymous]

I actually I'm not sure what model that is with the bulldog on it.

I ask BK how much the skimmer actually weighed, not the shipping weight. Response was............32 pounds 8O

So the price per pound is actually quite reasonable :lol:

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

That's quite a bit of plastic.

 

[Anonymous]

Anemonebuff wrote:

I hate to post this here, but it says something about BK customer service.

I suppose any company can have bad customer service once in awhile.

I read BK threads until my eyes turned blue over the weekend. Read Deltec threads too. Saw an occasional bad experience with both. The majority of owners were very pleased, if not gushing over their new toys.

Found plenty of bad Euroreef threads too.

There's no turning back now. Whatever my experience turns out to be will be documented here. I expect to have a positive experience. We'll see.

Louey

I am not syaing not to get one, even though I feel they are way overpriced, I just wanted you to see the post.

 

[magicman76]

here is the link.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars ... skimmer%22

this is depressing.. I cant get the images to work! :evil: :evil:

good luck with the new Bubble King Louy..

and Gallion.. get some pictures of that skimmer.. FL isnt in the works for me for YEARS to come..

 

[bradl.]

Everybodys talking about Bubble Kings lately. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showt ... did=707014

 

[Anonymous]

I nearly wet myself today when I heard the UPS truck pull up. I looked out the window and saw the driver unloading a box that looked like it might be the Bubble King. And it was..... :mrgreen:

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Notice that there is no RD pump. It was inadvertantly left out of the package. I called Scott at Captive Ocean and he is going to overnight the pump to me so I'll still have this puppy hooked up this weekend.

I will build the stand for it to sit on this afternoon.

Here's some more pics.

For those of us who always wondered what was inside the base, lol. Just what I expected!

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

more...

 

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Opps. Posted the same picture twice.

Louey

 

[magicman76]

HOLY CRIPES!! 8O 8O 8O
That thig is HUGE! 8) 8) 8)
btw.. I like whats in the base.. lol

whats the diamiter of the main chamber?