Abstract:
An oxygen water conditioner for home use uses the water pressure of the home water system to cause oxygen or ozone to disburse in the form of small bubbles to provide enhanced cleaning of water in the household system

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
       [0001]    This application claims priority of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/954,887, filed Mar. 18, 2014, which is incorporated herein by reference. 
     
    
     FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
       [0002]    The present application is directed to an oxygen water treatment system and more particularly to such a system for home use 
       BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
       [0003]    Ozone water treatment systems have been in existence since at least the 1890&#39;s and are in use in over 1400 municipals systems worldwide. Such systems utilize ozone introduced into the water to remove impurities. The City of Los Angeles uses ozone at its Water Treatment Plant to treat up to 600 million gallons a day Heretofore ozone systems for home use have not been successfully provided. Instead those systems have been in the form of water softeners using chloride as the treating agent. Such systems remove impurities from the water, but to do so they provide impurities to the environment largely in the form of salt water. 
       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
       [0004]    The present invention provides an oxygen or ozone water treatment system for home use. The unit is intended to be attached to the water system for the home and to treat water coming into the home to remove impurities. Unlike commonly used water softeners there are no chemical materials introduced to the home water system and there are no contaminants such as chloride released into the environment. The pressure of the home water system is used along with a flat hose with a narrow opening to the chamber to cause oxygen or ozone to be introduced into the water as fine bubbles to increase the efficiency of the system. 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         [0005]      FIG. 1  is a cross sectional view of a water treatment unit of the water treatment system of the present invention; 
           [0006]      FIG. 2  is a cross sectional view of the flat hose of the present system as seen at  2 - 2  of  FIG. 1 ; and 
           [0007]      FIG. 3  is an elevational view of the water treatment of the invention without the housing. 
       
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
       [0008]    As can best be seen in  FIGS. 1 and 2 , a water treatment system  10  of the present invention includes a housing  12  having a chamber  14  closed by a cap  16 . As can be seen in  FIG. 2 , the water treatment system  10  fits substantially within the housing  12 . The housing  12  in the preferred embodiment is substantially the size of a common water softener (not shown). The cap  16  is provided with an oxygen inlet  18 , ( FIG. 1 ) a water inlet  20  and a treated water outlet  22 . The water inlet  20  is connected to the source if the household water system  21 B 
         [0009]    Piping  23 , in the form of an oxygen pipe  24 , and a water pipe  26 , extends from the cap  16  and the inlets  18  and  20  respectively. The pipes  24  and  26  connect upstream of a venturi  28 . The outlet  30  of the venturi  28  connects to a flat hose  32 . The oxygen pipe  24  connects to atmosphere. The water pipe  22  is connected to the water system  21 A used in the home as from a well or from the municipal water system. Oxygen contained in the atmosphere is drawn by the venturi  28  into the water stream provided by the pipe  26 . The hose  32  empties the water from the inlet  18  into the chamber  14 . Pressure on the flat hose  32 , provided by the water pressure of the water from water system  21 B, causes the oxygen from the atmosphere to be introduced into the chamber  14  through the narrow outlet  33  in the form of small bubbles  34 . Treated water is discharged from the chamber  14  into the home water system through the outlet and into the household water system shown diagrammatically at  2 A in  FIG. 1 . 
         [0010]    The water delivered by a municipal system or by a pump (not shown) in a well system is at approximately 65 psi and it is this pressure which acts on the hose  32  to cause small bubbles to be discharged from the outlet  33  ( FIG. 2 ) of the hose  32 . 
         [0011]    Oxygen forms approximately 20% of the atmosphere and for treating municipal water this is sufficient when introduced by pipe  24  to remove impurities present in the water without any residue to pollute the environment. 
         [0012]    Where there has been no prior treatment of the water, ozone rather than oxygen may be required. In systems relying on untreated well water, for instance, it may be necessary to introduce ozone to the system through the inlet  18 . Ozone would require that an ozone generator  36  be connected to the inlet  18 . Ozone attacks and removes contaminants that oxygen will not effectively remove. 
         [0013]    The cleaning action of the oxygen has been found to be enhanced by introducing small bubbles of oxygen into the water. 
         [0014]    The system  10  without the casing  12  as shown in  FIG. 3  can be used to treat water in swimming pools and the like by mounting the system in a pool. 
         [0015]    While Applicant has disclosed one form of a home water treatment system or a pool cleaning system that can use oxygen or ozone to treat the water and in which the oxygen or ozone is introduced into the water, to remove contaminants, in the form of small bubbles other forms of the systems could be used without departing from the spirit of present invention.