Patent ID: 6520750
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: E03B,F04D

Abstract:
A pumping apparatus for delivering water upwardly from a holding area and over a holding area bank, comprising:an apparatus base; a water drawing pipe comprising a pipe intake end and a pipe discharge end and being mounted to said apparatus base and extendable from said apparatus base; an impeller rotatably mounted within said drawing pipe intake end; a hydraulic motor drivably connected to said impeller at said drawing pipe intake end; a hydraulic pump having a pump intake side and a pump output side; a flexible hydraulic supply hose connected to said pump output side and extending along said drawing pipe to said hydraulic motor; a flexible hydraulic return hose extending from said hydraulic motor along said drawing pipe to said pump intake side; a segmented hose track having a longitudinal track passageway through which said supply and return hoses extend and having a minimum bend radius great enough to prevent said supply and return hoses from kinking and permitting said hoses to unroll and extend with said drawing pipe as said drawing pipe is deployed and to coil back into the minimum bend radius as said drawing pipe is retracted without kinking or collapse; and a drawing pipe extending means for moving said drawing pipe between a retracted position on said apparatus base and a deployed position extending outwardly and angling downwardly from said apparatus base into water in a given holding area.