Patent ID: 8696914
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: B63B,C02F,E02B,Y02A,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for picking up particles from a surface of a water system, comprising: a particle separation space connected to an inflow opening through which the water that contains the particles enters the particle separation space, wherein the particle separation space is designed as a space that is hermetically sealed with respect to an environment; a particle-collecting space into which the particles separated from the water that contains the particles reach from the particle separation space via a separation mechanism, wherein the separation mechanism is an embankment element between the particle separation space and the particle-collecting space; and an adjustment mechanism configured to regulate a filling level of the water that contains the particles in the particle separation space, wherein the adjustment mechanism has a pressure-regulating device configured to adjust the filling level of the water that contains the particles by regulating an internal pressure of the particle separation space.