SWIMMING POOL USER WARNING SYSTEM

• US 3,778,804 A
• Filed: 12/06/1971
• Issued: 12/11/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leonard T. Adair
• Original Assignee: Leonard T. Adair
• Inventors: Adair, Leonard T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Caldwell, John W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Swann, III, Glen R.
• Application Number:
  US05/204,878
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• Field of Search: 340/272,276,38R,258R,280,279,240,236 200/86R,86A,81R,81H 116/98,65
• US Class Current: 340/544
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/10 by pressure on floors, floor coverings, stair treads, counters, or tills
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/086 by monitoring a perimeter outside the body of the water

Abstract

A swimming pool user warning system which warns as to the presence of a would-be unauthorized user of a swimming pool comprising, in combination, an electrical warning alarm, a normally open electrical switch and a compressible air-filled hose having both a normal undepressed condition and an actuated depressed condition. The hose is constructed in relation to the switch such that the latter is maintained open as long as the former is in its undepressed condition and such that the latter is closed upon any part of the former being actuated to its depressed condition. A mounting for the hose for an outdoor swimming pool is provided so that the hose is actuated to its depressed condition by the weight or force of such user, whereby to give off an alarm warning of his presence.

Claims

1. A swimming pool user warning system which warns as to the presence of a would-be unauthorized user of a swimming pool comprising, in combination, electrical warning means for giving off an alarm, means for energizing said warning means comprising normally open electrical switch means and compressible air-filled hose means having both a normal updepressed condition and an actuated depressed condition, said hose means constructed in relation to said switch means such that the latter is maintained open as long as the former is in its undepressed condition and such that the latter is closed upon any part of the former being actuated to its depressed condition, and means for mounting said hose means on a swimming pool so that said hose means is actuated to its depressed condition by the weight or force of such user, whereby to give off said alarm warning of his presence.

2. A swimming pool user warning system as claimed in claim 1, said hose means constructed to contain air under pressure, means for filling said hose means with air under pressure and for maintaining the same filled with said pressure air, an air motor in communication with said hose means, said switch means yieldably holding said air motor against movement as long as said hose means is in its undepressed condition, said air motor actuated upon depression of said part of said hose means to close said switch means to give off said alarm.

3. A swimming pool user warning system as claimed in claim 1, said hose means containing said switch means such that the latter is both physically and electrically closed upon depression of said part of the former.

4. A swimming pool user warning system as claimed in claim 2, second electrical switch means which is manually actuable to open position, and solenoid means for actuating said second switch means to close position, said solenoid means energized upon closing of the first-mentioned switch means.