Patent ID: 8177966

Claim:
A water pitcher purifier comprising: a water pitcher having a base, body, handle and spout; an incoming reservoir housed in an upper portion of said body for receiving water to be treated or purified, said reservoir having an opening in a bottom wall thereof; a chamber located completely beneath said incoming reservoir and having a protrusion extending upwardly from a bottom surface of said chamber, said chamber having an exit opening in a sidewall thereof; a filter extending through said incoming reservoir opening into said chamber, said filter having an inlet in fluid communication with said incoming reservoir, said filter having an outlet at a lower end thereof, a gap opening is defined between said protrusion and an outer bottom surface of said filter; and an ultraviolet light source which emits ultraviolet light capable of killing pathogens present in water being treated, said protrusion and said filter divide said chamber into a collector compartment located beneath said filter and an ultraviolet treatment compartment adjacent said filter where said ultraviolet light source is housed; wherein water to be treated or purified is introduced into said incoming reservoir and follows a liquid flow path having a plurality of openings in addition to said gap opening, flowing through said filter into said collector compartment, then through said gap opening into said ultraviolet treatment compartment where the filtered water is subjected to pathogen killing ultraviolet light, and then out through said exit opening into a lower collection reservoir adjacent said base where treated water is stored until it is dispensed through said spout.