A system for collecting waste discharge by gravity into float supported pipes. The pipes terminate into a submerged sewage holding and pumping station. From there it is pumped into existing sanitary sewer lines on shore.

A transparent money receptacle mounted in the counter of a restaurant or diner or the like designed to receive a patron's payment, said receptacle including individual compartments for paper money and coins of different denominations, thereby permitting the ready tabulation of said payment by the waitress, and said apparatus including a lower, locked depository box into which said coins and currency are mechanically transferred by the waitress after the correctness of the customer's payment has ...

Apparatus for collecting a midstream urine specimen from a female is described which does not require professional help. The apparatus combines a urinary guide having a urinary passageway, means on the guide to align the passageway with the female urethra so that a minimum of labial and vaginal secretions are entrained and a collector which isolates a predetermined initial volume of the micturition so that the urine sample collected for analysis is uncontaminated for all practical purposes.

A garbage collection vehicle having a conveyor means mounted on a cantilever arm which is secured adjacent to the driver's cab of the vehicle, for transporting disposable garbage containers from ground level to a garbage collection receptacle mounted on the rear of the vehicle. A disposal frame is mounted on the front end of the cantilever and includes guiding means mounted on the frame for guiding the containers into the disposal frame, and a cross wheel rotatably mounted on the frame for engag...

Floating collection apparatus for skimming oil slicks from a body of water. The oil and water is subjected to pressure generated by the weight and movement of the apparatus to eliminate the water adjacent to and entrained in the oil film prior to sending the oil to a collection tank.

The present invention is concerned with urine collection devices which are especially convenient for taking mid-stream specimens from females. Generally, the devices comprise an outer tube and an inner tube which is slidably movable within the outer tube between first and second positions; the outer tube having one end contoured and dimensioned for engaging the forward area of the genitalia and surrounding the urethra and having a drainage outlet intermediate its ends and the inner tube acting a...

A drainage collection container formed by a sheet of foldable material having flap extensions along the side edges thereof and dimensions greater than the dimensions of a vehicle with which it is to be used. The flap extensions wrap around elongated strips of resilient material to form curbs and seal the container along the sides and corners with means in one of the sides for forming a discharge spout therefrom. The container is adapted to be driven over by the vehicle and the sides are made res...

An underground refuse collection system including a tunnel extending beneath a plurality of dwellings and terminating at a common collection facility. Refuse from each dwelling is lowered to the tunnel, wherein appropriate conveyor means transports the refuse to the collection center. In a preferred embodiment, the refuse is placed on a reusable tray having a detachable connector associated therewith. The tray is lowered down a shaft to the tunnel, wherein a driven endless belt catches the detac...

Condensate collection means are described for use in a furnace for processing materials subject to vaporization wherein condensate is collected by means of a collector plate and one or more mesh structures positioned to condense the vapor. The one or more mesh structures allow vapor to first pass through to the collector plate but prevent solid pieces of condensate from falling back toward the vapor source.

An oil absorbing boom to be deployed across the effluent stream from a separator or settling basin on the downstream side of oil transfer operations at a seaport for the purposes of collecting and removing from the water thin films of oil such as those which sometimes escape from oil spill booms surrounding a tanker at a loading dock, and comprising an elongated flat tubular sleeve of polymer netting enclosing within itself a plurality of flat elongated slabs or bats of "picker-lap" fibrous poly...