METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OIL PRODUCT GATHERING FROM WATER SURFACE Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC E02B15/04 

FIELD: natural water cleaning means, particularly to collect and remove oil products from water body surface.

SUBSTANCE: method involves dropping at least one vessel filled with sorbent on water surface spot contaminated with oil products; submersing the vessel in oil product layer and in water; opening vessel to distribute sorbent over water surface with the use vessel opening means connected to the vessel and adsorbing oil products with sorbent. Vessel is opened and sorbent is discharged at the beginning of vessel immersion in oil and water, wherein sorbent is distributed over oil product layer and under the layer. Device for above method realization comprises vessel filled with sorbent and vessel opening means. Vessel opening means is produced of paper and has parallelepiped shape. The vessel comprises bottom, sides and upper wall. Vessel opening means includes weight of non-organic substance, for instance of rock. The weight is located at vessel bottom and is connected to vessel body by means of kinematic coupling. Kinematic coupling comprises link fastened to above weight and link, which cooperates with vessel body for vessel opening.

EFFECT: increased water surface cleaning quality and sorbent usage efficiency.

8 cl, 9 dwg, 2 ex