Patent ID: 8474477

Claim:
A sump-pump basin cover, comprising: a water-tight, impermeable, non-mechanical, sump-pump basin cover, constructed for being water-tightly sealed using a gasket ( 18 c ) directly to a floor surrounding a sump-pump basin opening, further comprising, a first aperture through said cover to receive and engage in a water-tight manner a vertically oriented discharge pipe through which water in the sump-pump basin is pumped by a sump-pump to an outside drain providing for a water-tightly sealed water-tight sump-pump basin cover back-up device that prevents water in the sump-pump basin from flooding the floor adjacent to the sump-pump basin, while retarding the escape of pump noise, odor, and radon and other gases that are known to emanate from sump-pump basins, and a second aperture ( 16 c ) extending through said cover, said cover and said second aperture structured to be at or just below the floor surface, said second aperture having a removable water-tight cover ( 16 d ) so as to provide for drainage of water from the floor about the sump-pump basin into the sump-pump basin when, and only when, the water-tight cover ( 16 d ) is removed, and said cover comprising a first ( 14 ) and a second ( 12 ) cover section, said first section being independently removable from said sump-pump basin to provide access to the interior thereof, said second cover section ( 12 ) having a first cover section receiving aperture ( 12 b ) located therethrough for receiving and being water-tightly sealed to said first cover ( 14 ) section.