Hi,
I'm still abroad and slightly bored.
My father waters the plants on his balcony using plastic bottles. Refilling them from the kitchen tap is time-consuming and laborious and 16 bottles take up a fair bit of floor space. It has occurred to me that if there were, say, 2-4 bottles filled from flexible hoses from a cistern (bucket) placed on a shelf, a cylindrical miniature low pressure and low flow float valve could be inserted into each bottle and refilling would be as quick as decanting a pail of water into the cistern.
When you took a full bottle, you would bung the miniature float valve into another bottle and it would fill as you used the previous bottle. I expect the float could be weighted to keep it submerged.
The main thing preventing me from doing this is I do not have the miniature float valves I have just invented, but I expect someone else has already made them and they can be sourced... any ideas?
I'm still abroad and slightly bored.
My father waters the plants on his balcony using plastic bottles. Refilling them from the kitchen tap is time-consuming and laborious and 16 bottles take up a fair bit of floor space. It has occurred to me that if there were, say, 2-4 bottles filled from flexible hoses from a cistern (bucket) placed on a shelf, a cylindrical miniature low pressure and low flow float valve could be inserted into each bottle and refilling would be as quick as decanting a pail of water into the cistern.
When you took a full bottle, you would bung the miniature float valve into another bottle and it would fill as you used the previous bottle. I expect the float could be weighted to keep it submerged.
The main thing preventing me from doing this is I do not have the miniature float valves I have just invented, but I expect someone else has already made them and they can be sourced... any ideas?
