REMOVABLY MOUNTED SWIMMING POOL ACCESSORY ANCHORING DEVICE

• US 3,868,732 A
• Filed: 07/30/1973
• Issued: 03/04/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John M. Engelhart
• Original Assignee: John M. Engelhart
• Inventors: Engelhart, John M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Artis, Henry K.
• Application Number:
  US05/383,818
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 4/1,172R,172.11,172.12,172.19,172.15,172.14,68,252 52/27,612,707 85/1R,1L 403/195,197,247
• US Class Current: 4/496
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/4121 with internal threads or non-adjustable captive nuts
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/143 Swimming lane markers with or without wave suppressors
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 45/002 Eyes

Abstract

An anchoring device, such as an eye bolt, removably mounted to a wall of a vinyl lined swimming pool for anchoring swimming pool accessories thereto. The anchoring device is mounted to the wall of a swimming pool such that it can be readily installed and removed from the exposed surface of the swimming pool wall. The device includes a sleeve which is mounted to a coping surrounding the swimming pool, and an anchoring bolt having a shaft which is threadably receivable in the sleeve.

Claims

1. An anchoring device for a swimming pool, said swimming pool having a wall and a liner, said anchoring device comprising:

a sleeve having both internal and external threads, said sleeve being open to said internal threads at at least one end thereof;

a flange substantially perpendicular to the axis of said sleeve and secured to said sleeve at the open end thereof;

a nut threadably engageable with the external threads of said sleeve whereby to lock the wall of the swimming pool betweeN said flange and said nut after said sleeve is inserted through said wall with the open end of said sleeve facing the interior of said swimming pool, a shank having external threads insertable through a hole in said liner from the inside of said pool wherein the external threads of said shank threadably engage the internal threads of said sleeve to thereby removably mount said shank to said sleeve; and

attaching means secured to said shank.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said flange is integral with said sleeve.

3. The device as defined in claim 1, further comprising:

a washer disposed on said sleeve between said wall and said nut;

a seal disposed on said shank between the swimming pool wall and said attaching means; and

a second washer disposed on said shank between said seal and said attaching means.

4. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said shank and said attaching means are integral.

5. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the longitudinal axis of said sleeve is generally perpendicular to the swimming pool wall.

6. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said sleeve is generally circular in transverse cross-section.

7. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said attaching means is in the form of a ring.

8. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said sleeve and said means for mounting said sleeve are plated with a corrosion resistent material.

9. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein said attaching means and said shank are plated with a corrosion resistent material.