Abstract: A device (1) for purification of water driven by gravity through a purification unit between an upper dirt water container (2) and a lower clean water tank (3). A backwash system may be integrated, the system comprising a receptacle (8) for accumulation of the backwash water to prevent consumption thereof by mistake.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 28, 2013
Date of Patent:
May 31, 2016
Assignee:
LifeStraw SA
Inventors:
Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, Daniel Frauchiger, Jean-Luc Madier de Champvermeil, Jean-Marc Pascal, Luc Stoops
Abstract: A liquid filtration method and device, for example a drinking straw with a mouthpiece, and a bundle of hollow fibres. The open ends of the fibres are embedded in a base and provided in a compartment between the base and a liquid outlet. Water or other liquid flows into the inner volume of the hollow fibres and from there through their filtering membrane walls and into the compartment before the liquid flows out through the liquid outlet, for example the mouthpiece.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 18, 2009
Date of Patent:
October 7, 2014
Assignee:
LifeStraw SA
Inventors:
Daniel Frauchiger, Roelie Bottema, Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen
Abstract: A device (1) for purification of water driven by gravity through a purification unit between an upper dirt water container (2) and a lower clean water tank (3). A backwash system may be integrated, the system comprising a receptacle (8) for accumulation of the backwash water to prevent consumption thereof by mistake.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 28, 2013
Publication date:
February 27, 2014
Applicant:
LifeStraw SA
Inventors:
Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, Daniel Frauchiger, Jean-Luc Madier de Champvermeil, Jean-Marc Pascal, Luc Stoops