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Riu Merengue All Inclusive, Puerto Plata
- Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in lobby, and free parking
Main amenities
- 998 guestrooms
- On the beach
- 4 restaurants and 4 bars/lounges
- Full-service spa
- 2 outdoor pools
- Nightclub
- Fitness center
- Beach sun loungers
- In-room childcare
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
What's around
- On the beach
- Playa Cofresi (3 mi / 4.9 km)
- Ocean World Adventure Park (3.5 mi / 5.6 km)
- Fort San Felipe (6.6 mi / 10.6 km)
- Los Mangos Golf Course (4.6 mi / 7.4 km)
- Puerto Plata Cable Car (5.6 mi / 8.9 km)
Feel at home
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Babysitting or childcare
- Children's pool
- Playground on site
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
Riu Merengue All Inclusive, Puerto Plata
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $193
- Double Room Ocean View
- Standard
- Double Room Europe
- Double Room Latam
- Suite
Also popular with travelers from the USA
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 998 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-Midnight
- Check-out time is Noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- WiFi in rooms *
- Free self parking
Other information
- All-inclusive (taxes and gratuities included)
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In the hotel
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Free buffet breakfast
- 4 restaurants
- 4 bars/lounges
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Children's pool
- Fitness facilities
- Tennis on site
- Full-service spa
- Sauna
- Nightclub
- Pool sun loungers
- Pool umbrellas
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Hair salon
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Garden
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Minibar
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Balcony
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Premium TV channels
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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Special features
All inclusive
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
Gratuities and taxes
Gratuities and taxes are included.
Food and beverages
- All buffet and à la carte meals, snacks, and beverages included
- In-room minibar (all beverages included)
- Meals and beverages at companion properties
Activities and facilities/equipment
All non-motorized water sports are included.
Water activities
- Kayaking
- Sailing
- Snorkeling
- Surfing/boogie boarding
- Windsurfing
Land activities
- Fitness facilities
- Soccer
- Tennis
- Volleyball
- Dancing
- Language
Kids' club
- Supervised activities for children between 4 and 12 years old
- Access to onsite clubs
- Onsite live performances
Not included
- Motorized water sports
- Scuba-diving certification
- Scuba-diving excursions
- Snorkeling excursions
- Premium or imported alcoholic beverages
- Airport transfers
- Childcare
- Laundry/dry cleaning services
- Wireless Internet access
- Offsite tours
DiningLa Roca - This buffet restaurant specializes in international cuisine. Open daily.
Los Almendros - This buffet restaurant specializes in international cuisine. Open daily.
Italian Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine. Open daily.
Steak House - This steakhouse specializes in international cuisine. Open daily.
On Site
- Fitness facilities
- Sauna
- Tennis on site
- Fitness classes on site
- Basketball on site
- Kayaking on site
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Sailing on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Volleyball on site
- Windsurfing on site
Riu Merengue All Inclusive, Puerto Plata's small print
Also known as
- Merengue Riu
- Rui Merengue
- Riu Merengue
- Riu Merengue All Inclusive
- Riu Merengue All Inclusive Puerto Plata
- Riu Merengue Puerto Plata
- Club Hotel Riu Merengue
- Clubhotel Riu Merengue Hotel
- Clubhotel Riu Merengue Puerto Plata
- Riu Merengue Dominican Republic
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
WiFi is available in guestrooms for USD 5-35 per week (rates may vary)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Good 3.4 /5 from 139 reviews
There were so many mosquitoes inside the room and I got bit up all over my body. The bathroom was not fully cleaned and the toilet didn't work. The refrigerator was old and discussing and there was a big roach inside my room.
Basically a two star hotel in an all-inclusive setting. Staff were alternatingly great and terrible, many seemed only superficially able to deal with issues. Our biggest upset was regarding a lost and inebriated guest that we attempted to get assistance from the hotel staff for. Not only was the staff exceedingly slow to respond, but upon responding, were very rude and abrasive with the guest. The food was passable the first night, and terrible for the following several evenings. Transportation to and from the resort was sickeningly expensive, for no apparent reason except that they could charge us as much as they wanted. The beach is fantastic, but can be crowded, situated in an apparently significantly windy area, which prevents many ocean oriented activities that are provided by the hotel.
Excellent service, great staff, animation staff very good, service overall was great
Overall a very pleasant stay.
It was great. First time I have been to this hotel and found it very nice to be at and at a reasonable price.
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If one does use Scrum for the Software development portion of a project, does one still use PMBOK or some other project management methodology for the "other" tasks on a project e.g. the business, marketing, training tasks. What is the project management of non software development tasks referred to i.e. traditional project management?
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We have expanded scrum to other departments in the company, modeling, texture and animation artist. We had to adapt the method a little, but it does work nicely. We had problems that were solved by using agile methodology. Some smaller departments (audio, special effects) were already working fine so we didn't tried to fix what wasn't broken. Agile would have added an unnecessary overhead for them.
It is not necessary for all departments in a company to use the same methodology, the best is to be adapted for everyones' needs. But scrum can be the solution for people other than programmers, but may need a bit of adaptation. Daily stand-up, sprints, backlog, those can be a good thing for many types of jobs.
A project is defined in the PMBOK as being something of fixed scope, duration and budget. Failure of the project is defined as breaking outside one of the three sides of this "iron triangle". Scrum is a set of principles, and a few concrete practices, for dealing with all sorts of knowledge work, based on Agile values, and is specifically designed for development efforts that may not be projects, or may have flexible scope, duration or budget.
You are right that Scrum only deals with a few aspects of the software development process, such as planning. It only defines a few roles, meetings and artifacts, this is to keep it as flexible as possible. Scrum can, and should, address parts of the value stream outside of the software development itself. However, as you mentioned, it does not deal with lots of things, such as software engineering practices, and analysing the business case.
Often the standard Scrum solution is to "let the team decide" on matters that are not directly specified by Scrum. Often the guidelines for dealing with such matters come from other cultures and value or principle-systems within the Agile world, such as XP, or lean software development. Other cultures providing useful stuff for Scrum teams include Real Options, the Incremental Funding Method, Evo.
Some of the PMBOK stuff can be useful to a "project manager" or PO on a Scrum team, however one has to be cautious as the PMBOK stuff implies a rather different value-system than that which Scrum is based on. It is usually best to look for solutions within the Agile culture. Some of the PMBOK stuff still applies in an agile context though.
If you look for mailing lists related to "agile project management" you will find many thriving communities discussing such topics.
Agile development and PMBOK should not be mixed. IF you do, you're likely to end up with Scrummerfall. I've seen this happen with traditional project managers who convert to agile. They just don't get it and seem to fall back to old patterns.
However, in my opinion SCRUM doesn't cover all you need for project management. It sort of lacks an overall strategy to rule by. One possibility is combining SCRUM with EVO project/value management or other value management methods. It will however require a different type of legal contract with the customer. Projects are then more like a continuous process that is time boxed, restrained by a budget or ends when the customer feels he gains less than his investment (using business cases and goal measures). An added benefit is that the customer will see you more as a long term partner than a short term supplier.
If your software development effort is just one facet of a larger project--for example, rolling out a new financial product--then sure, you will have to employ some kind of project management methodology to orchestrate all of the work involved. Fitting a Scrum-based software development effort into a project managed according to PMBOK principles can be challenging, however, since PMBOK prescribes a linear, phased approach to project execution whereas Scrum, like other Agile methodologies, promotes incremental improvement through iteration. That's not to say that the two can't coexist. Like everything else, it comes down to implementation. Just remember to be pragmatic and adapt the methodologies to your needs, not the other way around.
Scrum is NOT a software development method but a project management method.
Besides Scrum is often introduced with Lego, or other artefacts (search for "59 minutes Scrum"). Therefore it can be used to handle all of the tasks of a project, whatever their natures.
While learning about these techniques is great, can I suggest your main focus is actually on running the project and getting stuff done?
EDIT: that's a serious point by the way, not a throwaway quip.


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In vast areas of the planet capitalism has been overthrown, whilst to preserve it elsewhere has cost the lives of tens and even hundreds of millions in localised and world wars; famine continues to claim countless victims in a world where food "surpluses" are burned.
This testifies to the fact that capitalism has long passed from the early phase of its development, when it was a relatively progressive system, to its terminal phase when it has become absolutely reactionary--in short to the epoch in which its death agony takes place.
The question that faces humanity is whether imperialism will drag all classes into a common ruin or whether the working class can lead the exploited and oppressed into a new social order; one where democratically planned production for need based upon common ownership opens up the prospect of a classless, stateless world. The objective pre-requisites for this have long existed: technology, science, the means of production and a multi-millioned world proletariat.
Twice this century, in 1914-23 and 1939-47, capitalism has been thrown into such acute worldwide convulsions that it stared death in the face. Twice, its own rivalries and contradictions have raised up the spectre of its global defeat at the hands of the proletariat. On countless other occasions the proletariat of individual countries has sought to settle accounts decisively with its exploiters.
But, as yet, it has not found, or been able to preserve, a leadership capable of completing the task of the world revolution. Before 1914 the Socialist International did assemble a mass-based world movement of the working class, but this suffered degeneration and betrayal before it could create the centralised leadership necessary for victory in the approaching revolutionary crises.
I'll bet hopes were high when Slick Willy won in 92
I haven't read anything by or about Trotsky that would convince me that there is much difference between him and Stalin, shades of red so to speak.
If he had taken power he might have killed marginally fewer people, but judging from his proformance during the Russian Civil War, not many.
Of course you realize that now you will be TOTALLY addicted to FR... :)
Indeed, good job!
Just for the record, I never thought I'd say that about Texas. You boys and gals want to take your state back?
But, as yet, it has not found, or been able to preserve, a leadership capable of completing the task of the world revolution. Before 1914 the Socialist International did assemble a mass-based world movement of the working class, but this suffered degeneration and betrayal before it could create the centralised leadership necessary for victory in the approaching revolutionary crises.
Very interesting. It is with your claim of being a Trotskyite, and this little snippet where you cast your lot with Hitler. It is refreshing to see a socialist actually claim their heritage rather than trying to make the people believe that it is the heritage of the right. Herein lies a distinction that the light of truth shines for those who bother to educate themselves. Nazis are socialists, socialists are Nazis. Communists are only slightly more bloodthirsty socialists. Again I ask, how can you be what you claim to be? Are you so self-congratulatory and delusional that you actually think that yourself and those who can believe like you do can take pure evil and make it into pure good? Or are you merely pure evil and wish to make others believe otherwise so that you may seize power?
And please dont assume that I am simple minded or stupid because I believe in the principles of right and wrong. I hold these beliefs not because I am a fundamental Christian (tho I am a non-practicing Christian), but due to more secular influences in our culture, influences that could never exist in your utopia...JFK
Is the freest country on earth moving toward totalitarian dictatorship? What were the factors that enabled the Nazis to seize power in pre-war Germany? Do those same conditions exist in America today?
These are the questions raised and answered, with frightening clarity by Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand's heir, in his powerful book The Ominous Parallels.
"We are drifting to the future, not moving purposefully," Peikoff warns. "But we are drifting as Germany moved, in the same direction, for the same kind of reason."
Some of the "ominous parallels" between pre-Hitler Germany and the United States that Peikoff identifies are: Liberals who demand public control over the use and disposal of private property social security, more taxes, more government control over the energy industry, medicine, broadcasting, etc.
Conservatives who demand government control over our intellectual and moral life prayer in the schools, literary censorship, government intervention in the teaching of biology, the anti-abortion movement, etc. Political parties devoid of principles or direction and moved at random by pressure groups, each demanding still more controls.
A "progressive," anti-intellectual educational system that, from kindergarten to graduate school, creates students who can't read or write students brainwashed into the feeling that their minds are helpless and they must adapt to "society," that there is no absolute truth and that morality is whatever society says it is. A student radical movement (from the 1960's through the violent anti-nukers and ecology fanatics of today) who are, Peikoff maintains, the "pre-Hitler youth movement resurrected." The radicals are nature worshippers who attack the middle class, science, technology, and business. The rise of defiant old-world racial hatreds disguised as "ethnic-identity" movements and "affirmative action." A pervasive atmosphere of decadence, moral bankruptcy, and nihilist art accompanied by the rise of escapist mystic cults of every kind astrology, "alternative medicine," Orientalists, extrasensory perception, etc. In an introduction to Peikoff's book, Ayn Rand describes The Ominous Parallels as, "the first book by an Objectivist philosopher other than myself" and goes on to say that, "If you do not wish to be a victim of today's philosophical bankruptcy, I recommend The Ominous Parallels as protection and ammunition. It will protect you from supporting, unwittingly, the ideas that are destroying you and the world."
In brilliantly reasoned prose, Peikoff argues that the deepest roots of German Nazism lie not in existential crises, but in ideas not in Germany's military defeat in World War I or the economic disasters of the Weimar Republic that followed, but in the philosophy that dominated pre-Nazi Germany. Although it was mediated by crises, Peikoff demonstrates that German Nazism was the inevitable climax of a centuries-long philosophic development, preaching three fundamental ideas: the worship of unreason, the demand for self-sacrifice and the elevation of society or the state above the individual.
"These ideas," Peikoff says, "are the essence of Nazism and they are exactly what our leading universities are now spreading throughout this country. This is the basic cause of all the other parallels."
Somebody in my family, very particularly, refers to himself as a Trotskyite.
I'm having a hard time figuring out whether you are being sarcastic, or asserting the truth of the zero-sum fallacy, or getting at something else.
Well, I doubt that "54 times" statistic, but I'll give it a pass for now... and I'll assume that you do not think that massive quantities of food are literally dumped off of a boat into the ocean (Greenpeace would have a conniption fit, LOL). I want to address the last line of the post.
That's our system's sick set of priorities.
Our systems single most important, significant, and historic priority is to give the individual the Freedom to produce as he sees fit. This was never tried in 6000 years of recorded history. The results are blazingly obvious. Those Western nations who have followed our example are miraculously short of famines, plagues, rampant inefficiency, etc. Those who have not are still floundering, and are somehow unable to feed themselves and unable to survive financially without Western aid, grants, and relief. Do you see this as a coinsidence?
Allow me to give you the clearest example of the inherent impossibility of success in the Socialist model. Oklahoma State University was working closely with Ethiopia in the 1950's, and the nations quickly became a net food exporter, overcoming famine, creating wealth, and even helping other African nations to feed their people. In the 1960's the Socialists took power, and the people of the region have never recovered. Millions are dead of starvation, billions of dollars of assets and wealth are consumed and never replaced, and they have never once produced the same tonnages that they did 50 years ago. This happens EVERY time Socialists enforce the "compassion" on populations. The ONLY reason some Socialism-leaning Western nations (like France) do not collapse is that they have enough of our "sick" priorities and allow the more motivated parts of the population to evade or circumvent national planning schemes and actually be productive... in SPITE of Socialism, and NEVER because of it.
It is sad that a college professor would so willfully ignore History and the plain lessons that it imparts.
With this in mind, which set of priorities is "sick"? The society that enforces a system that keeps people from producing enough to feed its people, or the system that is SO good at letting its people produce a surplus that they can voluntarily (aka, "freely") choose to waste food as they see fit?
Pure socialists are not interested in the individual but in reaching the ideal, even if this means the eventual liquidation of upwards of 90% of the population to remove them from the gene pool. After all, that is what being a member of the elite revolutionary vanguard means. Dana is obviously conversant in cliches and slogans. In the end they are good for propaganda for the masses. Unfortunately Dana actually believes his line of BS. I assume he has never met commited Stalinist leftists more conversant in the theoretical aspects of the class struggle and how to go about achieviong absolute power.
We can all take comfort in the knowledge that when my former Stalinist colleagues take over, it will be people like Dana who will be shot first. The Mensheviks have obviously never learned anything from history. All they do is pave the way and like all good cannon fodder lose out in the end.
As an academic, she has never earned an honest day's wage in the real world. Having no sense of the origins of capital, she is simply not credible attacking greed and the capitalist system that pays to pad her rather fat rump.
Instead, she is the shameless hypocrite that defines Socialism.
Want to help the world? Give them all your money, and leave America to Americans.
Disgusting creep!
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The invention relates to a sterilizing device for the sterilizing of a medium, preferably water, with a conduit of pipes through which the medium to be purified passes, with at least one removable UV lamp producing ultraviolet radiation fitted almost concentrically within the conduit.
In a device of this type in accordance with patent specification CH-PS 477 825 a vertically positioned pipe section is provided, the top final section of which is curved around 90� while a pipe bend is connected at its lower end. Furthermore, at this top final section a pipe-connecting piece is positioned, on which a bar-shaped quartz lamp producing ultraviolet radiation is held, which extends into the interior of the pipe. This lamp positioned coaxial with the pipe section achieves the required sterilization by radiating the medium flowing between the lamp and the pipe jacket. For improved radiation spaced-out guide vanes are fixed in the axial direction on the inner wall of the pipe section, which confer turbulence to the medium flowing through the device.
A further well-known apparatus for the sterilization of water in accordance with U.S. Pat. No. 4,623,467 comprises a central sleeve, on the two sides of which there is a connectable connecting sleeve with, in each instance, a radially positioned pipe connecting piece, on both sides of which there is a locking cap and a UV lamp extending through it, which is held at each of its two ends by a respective locking cap. The disadvantage of this apparatus is its relatively expensive manufacture and assembly, in particular because, at each of transition points of various parts connected together, sealings have to be produced so they permanently withstand the corresponding pressures of the water flowing through the apparatus. A further disadvantage is that dead zones of the water flowing through the apparatus form between connecting sleeves and locking covers, in which sterilization is not optimum.
In a known device in accordance with patent application NL-A-8 205 084, a longitudinal sleeve is provided, on which a radially projecting flange is also positioned at both ends for connection to a pipe and, in each instance, a locking cap is fixed, which holds an extending UV lamp. In this device as well the flanges on the longitudinal sleeve, which is made of stainless steel, have to be welded in an expensive manufacturing process.
In contrast, the present invention is based on the problem of producing a sterilizing unit of the type mentioned previously, which is simple and inexpensive to manufacture, permits problem-free and rapid dismantling and assembling for cleaning and, furthermore, achieves improved radiation of the medium flowing through the unit.
The problem has been solved by having fie conduit of pipes exhibit at least one separate pipe section as well as, in each instance, a sleeve attached to the inlet and outlet side of this pipe section, whereby one sleeve is provided with a flange section, which serves for the detachable fixing of a UV lamp, which, in its installed condition, extends at least partially into the separate pipe section.
With this construction of the invention, this sterilizing device can be produced considerably more cost effectively than known devices and can be dismantled and then reassembled in a very simple manner. Since these UV lamps preferably exhibit a length of up to a few hundred millimeters, this separate pipe section can be used as pole material.
In one very advantageous version the pipe conduit has a U shape and the two sleeves connect, in each instance, two separate pipe sections connected in parallel, whereby one sleeve forms a channel from one pipe section to the other, while the other sleeve forms the inlet and outlet for the medium, with the latter sleeve exhibiting two flange sections for receiving UV lamps extending into the separate pipe sections.
In a further version of the invention a protective cap is provided, which can be removed from the pipe conduit and preferably reveals an integrated plug connection when it is detached. The UV lamp in question is positioned in such a manner in the pipe conduit that, following the removal of the protective cap, the UV lamp can be taken out of this pipe conduit for the purpose of cleaning or replacement.
Example forms of construction of the invention as well as their further advantages are described in greater detail in the following in accordance with the drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a sterilization unit of the invention,
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a variation of a sterilization unit of the invention,
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken through the sterilization unit along the line III—III in accordance with FIG. 2, and
FIG. 4 is a further longitudinal sectional view of another variation of a sterilization unit of the invention.
FIG. 1 shows a sterilization unit 10 for the sterilization of a medium, preferably water, with a U-shaped pipe conduit 20 through which the medium to be purified passes with two removable UV lamps 25, 26 producing ultraviolet radiation positioned almost concentrically in the conduit 20. Such UV lamps are available on the market and for this reason are not described in greater detail in the following.
In accordance with the invention the pipe conduit exhibits two separate pipe sections 24, 28 as well as two sleeves 22, 23 attached, respectively, to the inlet and outlet side of this pipe sections 24, 28, whereby the one sleeve 22 is provided with a flange section 22′ for the detachable fixing of the UV lamps 25, 26, which, in their installed state, extend at least partially into the separate pipe sections 24, 28.
In the present example form of construction the pipe conduit 20 has a U shape, as already mentioned above, and the two sleeves 22, 23 each connect two separate pipe sections 24, 28 arranged in parallel, whereby the one sleeve 22 forms the inlet and outlet 11, 12 while the other sleeve 23 forms the channel 27 of the medium from one to the other of the pipe sections 24, 28. The sleeve 22 forming the inlet and outlet has two flange sections 22′, which serve, in each instance, for receiving UV lamps 25, 26.
In the separate pipe sections 24, 28 in question, a device is positioned for the production of turbulence in the medium flowing through the pipe sections between interior walls of the pipe sections 24, 28 and the UV lamps 25, 26. This device is formed as at least one spiral spring 35 wound spirally or otherwise, inserted in the separate pipe section, which, in a pre-stressed state, is located in its axial direction between the two sleeves 22, 23. In this way a very effective and extremely cost effective element has been created for this required improvement in the radiation of the medium flowing through the sterilization unit.
The two separate pipe sections 24, 28 extend, in each instance, in the final section, into an annular tee-slot 32, 33 of the two sleeves 22, 23, which are preferably held together on the outer side by, for example, four connecting rods offset at an angle of 90�. These rods preferably proceed parallel to the pipe sections 24, 28. The latter are advantageously pressed, on the front side, against circumferential sealings 36, which are inserted in this annular tee-slot 32, 33, for the purpose of attaining a perfect seal.
The UV lamps 25, 26 each consist of a lamp tube and a protective sleeve 40, 41 enveloping the lamp tube, which, for example, is made of quartz glass. On the topside a plug section 47 is fixed on this protective sleeve 40, 41 in a detachable manner, with a tightening nut 42. The plug section 47 lies on the protective sleeve 40, 41 and an annular seal 44 between the plug section and the tightening nut 42 achieves the necessary sealing.
The UV lamps 25, 26 each extend coaxially through the pipe sections 24, 28 to the lower sleeve 23 forming a ring slot 24′, 28′ which let the medium through. In the respective flange section 22′ a tightening nut 37 is fixed by means of a thread or the like, which, at the front side, presses an annular seal 38 against the protective sleeve 40, 41 and perfect sealing is effected at this point as well.
With this arrangement of the sterilization unit 10, rapid assembly or dismantling is facilitated for the cleaning or replacement of tie UV lamps.
For the two separate pipe sections 24, 28, aluminum is preferably used, which is anodized, at least on its inner side. This reflects the UV radiation emerging through the protective sleeves 40, 41, whereby maximum radiation of the medium is achieved. As a result of the use of anodized aluminum, these pipe sections can be cut to size from semi-manufactured products in an economical form.
Such a sterilizing unit 10 is particularly suitable for the sterilizing of water from a swimming pool. The water is brought from the pool by a pump or the like, passed through this sterilizing unit 10 with operating UV lamps 25, 26 and then supplied bask to the pool. As a consequence absolutely no additives such as chlorine or the like are required. Within the framework of the invention the sterilizing unit can also be used for other applications. In principle, any liquid or even a gas can be used as the medium.
Obviously the sleeves could also be formed in two or more parts. In particular those with the inlet and outlet could be made of two identically formed sleeves. Furthermore, the flange sections for receiving the UV lamps could also be assigned to the sleeve 23.
FIGS. 2 and 3 show a further very advantageous form of construction of a sterilizing unit 50 of the invention, which is also formed of a U-shaped pipe conduit 51 and, in each instance, a UV lamp 55 is integrated in the two sides of this conduit 51 and arranged in parallel. These UV lamps 55 are, in each instance, formed of two tubes positioned in parallel in the normal manner.
In accordance with the invention, the U shaped pipe conduit 51 exhibits two separate pipe sections 54 as well as, in each instance, sleeves 52, 53 attached to the pipe sections 54 on the inlet and outlet side, whereby the one sleeve 52 is provided, in each instance, with a flange section 62 for the two pipe sections 54, which serve for the detachable fixing of the UV lamps 55 extending, in an installed state, through the separate pipe sections 54 in each instance. The two sleeves 52, 53 are held together on the outside by connecting poles located in parallel to the pipe sections and not shown in greater detail, whereby preferably four of these connecting poles are provided.
In accordance with FIG. 3 the UV lamp 55 is held on the flange section 62 of the sleeve 52 located on the topside of the unit 50. The UV lamp 55 used in a protective sleeve 57 is connected by a plug connection and a cable 64 to the main supply (220V). This plug connection consists of a plug section 71 fixed in a protective cap 69 with five downwardly extending pins and a socket 72 located directly above the UV lamp 55. The latter as well as the plug section 71 and the UV lamp are commercially available and thus contribute to the cost-effective production of the unit 50. The socket 72 with five connector sockets arranged in parallel and accessible from above is held in a supporting element 73, which is connected with and can be detached from an attachment sleeve 63 on the flange section 62 by means of a snap closure 74. The plug section 71 is, for its put, fixed in the protective cap 69, which, in its mounted state, serves to cover the plug connection. Wire connections 77 lead into the plug section 71 and these are connected to the power supply by means of the cable 64 contained in the protective cap 69.
On the underside of the supporting element 73 a disk 67 is held by means of a snap closure 75, which, for its put, is provided with a hook closure 68 holding the UV lamp. This disk 67 is inserted in the attachment sleeve 63 and lies virtually on top of the protective sleeve 57 so that the interior is closed by the latter during operation.
For the removal of the protective cap 69 two push buttons 80 are positioned opposite each other in an adjustable manner on the side in the protective cap 69, and on the inner side flexible locking catches 81 of a snap closure 85 are present, whereby the latter moreover is formed by corresponding grooves on the attachment sleeve 63. The push buttons 80 can be activated by hand pressure and, as a result, the locking catches 81 are bent inwardly, as a result of which the protective cap 69 is released and can be raised up. At the same time the plug section 71 is removed from the socket 72 and thus there is no further current in the lamp and in the unit.
After the removal of the protective cap 69, the UV lamp 55 can be dismantled and cleaned. To this end the snap closure 74 made accessible from the outside, and the supporting element 73 is disengaged and the UV lamp 55 can be taken out together with the socket 72 as a complete unit. Subsequently the protective sleeve 57 can be taken out after the attachment sleeve has been screwed off. These and also the inner wall of the pipe section 54 can then be cleaned so optimum radiation and/or reflection is guaranteed once again. Afterwards the protective sleeve 57, the sleeve 63, the UV lamp and the protective cap 69 can be assembled again without any tool being required. Thus, this unit can be taken apart and returned to an operational state in a very simple manner within a few minutes.
In the event of a defect, the UV lamp 55 can also be replaced within a very short period. To this end after the removal of the protective cap 69, once again the snap closure 74 on the supporting element 73 is disengaged and the UV lamp 55 together with the socket 72 can be removed as a complete unit. By loosening the hooks 68 as well as the cable connecting the lamp 55 with the socket 72, this lamp 55 can be replaced.
Furthermore, in the attachment sleeve 63, a discharge aperture 79 is also provided, through which the leakage water penetrating from the pipe circuit 51 between the protective sleeve 57 and the attachment sleeve 63 surrounding the protective sleeve 57 can flow away.
FIG. 4 shows a sterilizing unit 80, which, in itself, has the same construction as the unit in accordance with FIG. 3 and for this reason only the differences are explained in greater detail in the following. This unit 80 exhibits a pipe conduit 81, which once again consists of an inlet-side and outlet-side sleeve 82, 83 as well as a pipe 84 extending between these sleeves 82, 83. A UV lamp 25 tightly enclosed in a protective sleeve 97 is connected to the main supply by means of a plug connection of a different nature than that shown in FIG. 3 and centred at its lower end by means of a seal in the sleeve 82. This plug connection is a four pole plug connection and consists of a plug section 91 fixed in a protective cap 89 and a socket 92 located at the lower side of the cap 89, which socket 92 is held by a supporting element 89′ above the UV lamp 25, which is connected with and can be detached from an attachment sleeve 93 on a flange section 82′ by means of a snap closure 94 or the like.
In the right half of the longitudinal section of the plug connection as well as of the protective cap 89, a snap closure 86 or the like is shown, which is released by a spring-loaded push button 87 and releases the protective cap 89 together with the plug section 91 from the flange section 82′ of the sleeve 82. In contrast, in the released state of this snap closure 86, the attachment sleeve 93 and the UV lamp 25 are connected with the protective cap 89.
In the left half of the longitudinal section of the plug connection as well as of the protective cap 89, which is shown offset by 90� to the right-half, it is apparent that, for its part, the plug section 91 is held in the protective cap 89 by means of a snap closure 88 or the like, which, in a assembled state, serves as a cover for the plug connection.
In principle, the UV lamp could also be attached directly to the protective cap. During removal, therefore, the protective cap would be taken off together with the UV lamp.
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