Patent ID: 8518271

Claim:
A water treatment feeder device adapted for use with water treatment granules, the water treatment feeder device comprising: a hopper forming a granule-receiving compartment and having an upper hopper portion and a lower V-shaped hopper portion connected to the upper hopper portion, the upper hopper portion including a pair of first pair of hopper side walls disposed apart from each other and a second pair of hopper side walls disposed apart from each other and connected to the first pair of hopper side walls to form an upper granule-receiving sub-compartment of the granule-receiving compartment, each one of the first pair of hopper side walls and the second pair of hopper side walls fabricated from a water-impenetrable material, the lower V-shaped hopper portion fabricated from a porous material having a plurality of pores sized to at least substantially retain the water treatment granules in the lower V-shaped hopper portion, the lower V-shaped hopper portion forming a lower V-shaped granule-receiving sub-compartment of the granule-receiving compartment in communication with the upper granule-receiving sub-compartment; and a receptacle having an upper opening and fabricated from a water-impenetrable material, the receptacle including a first pair of receptacle side walls disposed apart from each other, a second pair of receptacle side walls disposed apart from each other and connected to the first pair of receptacle side walls and a bottom part connected to the first pair of receptacle side walls and the second pair of receptacle side walls to define a water-receiving compartment, the bottom part having a water inlet and a water outlet disposed apart from the water inlet, the receptacle including a weir disposed in the water-receiving compartment between the water inlet and the water outlet to divide the water-receiving compartment into a water inlet sub-compartment and a water outlet sub-compartment, the water inlet sub-compartment sized to receive the hopper therein through the upper opening with an apex of the lower V-shaped hopper portion positioned at least adjacent the bottom part.