Patent ID: 8210389

Claim:
A drain apparatus to receive and support a portable motor vacuum pump, comprising: (a) a housing including a base portion, and a surrounding sidewall extending upwardly therefrom said base portion, wherein said surrounding sidewall terminates in an upper end portion, said base and said surrounding sidewall define a housing interior as separated from an exterior environment; (b) a partial margin extension portion that includes an outer periphery that is parallel in a plane to a portion of said surrounding sidewall, a support shoulder that is parallel in a plane to said base, and an inner periphery that is parallel in a plane to said outer periphery, said outer periphery is adjacent to said portion of said surrounding sidewall termination, wherein said partial margin extension portion is oppositely disposed from said base portion; and (c) a divider disposed adjacent to said inner periphery, said divider having a motor vacuum pump mount platform portion positioned parallel in a plane to said base and adjacent to said inner periphery, said motor vacuum pump mount platform portion to receive and support the portable motor vacuum pump, said divider further having a convex configuration being disposed inward of said motor vacuum pump mount platform portion, wherein said convex configuration is facing said base portion, a portion of said convex configuration being adjacent to said surrounding sidewall termination being operational to allow clearance for the motor of the vacuum pump, said partial margin extension portion, said motor vacuum pump mount platform portion, and said divider together separate said housing interior into a first region and a second region, said divider having an aperture for communication therethrough as between said first and second regions, said housing having an opening communicating as between said second region and the exterior environment, said outer periphery, said support shoulder, said inner periphery, and said motor vacuum pump mount platform portion form a “C” channel rigid beam, with said inner and outer peripheries forming parallel planes being about a portion of said surrounding sidewall termination to support the portable motor vacuum pump at said vacuum pump platform portion, said partial margin extension portion inner periphery positions said motor vacuum pump mount platform portion to be recessed toward said base for a portion of said surrounding sidewall, wherein said inner periphery is operational to prevent the portable motor vacuum pump blow down oil from spraying beyond said inner periphery.