SNOW MELTER Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC E01H5/10 

FIELD: human vital needs satisfaction.

SUBSTANCE: snow melter contains an underground snow-receiving chamber with a loading window covered with a grate, a duct for melt water draining and a snow melting intensifier. The intensifier is made in the form of a collector with irrigation pipes, connected to the sewage main. The device includes a snow melting channel communicating with the chamber, with a removable overlap installed above the channel and a means for solid floating contaminants retaining located in the channel. A flooded pipeline with holes for warm waste water supply, equipped with a latch installed before the pipeline insertion into the snow melter, is arranged along the inner surface of the snow-receiving chamber walls. At that, the bottom of the snow-receiving chamber, extending above the bottom of the snow-melting channel, is inclined to it and mates with the bottom of the snow-melting channel by a step.

EFFECT: increased efficiency of snow melting, reduced length and depth of the snow melting channel by providing the ability to control the intensity of snow melting and hydraulic flushing from the bottom of the snow-receiving chamber of mineral particles precipitating during snow melting.

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