Patent ID: 7059013

Claim:
A fluid recovery device for use in conjunction with a vacuum source to remove a fluid from a surface, said fluid recovery device comprising: a vacuum chamber having a bottom surface and having an enclosed interior volume; an elongated nozzle having an inlet and an outlet, said nozzle being a conduit between ambient air and the vacuum chamber, said inlet adapted to be placed in contact with the surface, said nozzle outlet being provided above the bottom surface of the vacuum chamber; an upwardly extending wall between the bottom surface and the nozzle outlet, said wall blocking a flow of recovered fluid from the bottom surface back into the nozzle; and an outlet orifice being selectively coupled to the vacuum source so that fluid is removed from the surface through the nozzle inlet and through the vacuum chamber, wherein the bottom surface is sloped toward to the outlet orifice to facilitate fluid flow toward the outlet orifice, and wherein a cross sectional area of the vacuum chamber decreases as the distance from the outlet orifice increases.