Floating pool assembly

• US 4,087,870 A
• Filed: 07/30/1976
• Issued: 05/09/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John M. Palmer Jr
• Original Assignee: John M. Palmer Jr
• Inventors: Palmer, John M. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Artis, Henry K.
• Application Number:
  US05/710,149
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 4/171, 4/172.19, 4/172, 4/1
• US Class Current: 4/487
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/0012 Floating swimming pools
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/1209 Treatment of water for swimming pools filters B01D
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/144 Means for facilitating access, e.g. step units or slides invalid-lifting devices for swimming pools A61G7/1005

Abstract

A pool assembly designed to be supported in a natural body of water such as a lake, river, canal, etc., and including a flexible, waterproof liner structure secured about its peripheral edge to a floatation device in the form of a buoyant rim portion disposed in supporting relation to the liner and maintained in floating relation to the surface of the body of water. A floating deck comprising, in part, a hollow portion for storage of the liner when not in use and a filtering assembly, is removably attached to the rim portion by a correspondingly configured channel structure formed in the housing of the deck, wherein the deck itself is buoyant and is disposed in interconnecting relation between the liner and the shore or equivalent permanent installation leading to the liner.

Claims

1. A pool assembly of the type primarily designed to be floatingly supported in a body of water, said pool assembly comprising:

liner means dimensioned and configured to define a liquid container disposed in substantially segregated relation from the body of water, said liner means comprising a base portion and side wall means both formed from a flexible sheet element, said liner means further including floatation means secured to said side wall means along the length of said side wall means, said floatation means formed from a buoyant material, said floatation means disposed to substantially define at least a portion of the peripheral boundary of said liner means and positioned in supporting relation to the remainder of said liner means at least in part on the surface of the body of water;

deck means comprising a housing formed in part from buoyant material and supportingly disposed on the surface of the body of water, connecting means formed in said housing and configured to substantially correspond to said floatation means and be removably secured thereto;

said housing comprising a first housing portion substantially disposed on the interior of said liner means relative to said floatation means, and a second housing portion substantially disposed on the exterior of said liner means relative to said floatation means, said first and second housing portions operatively disposed relative to one another on opposite sides of said floatation means, whereby water may be maintained within said liquid container for swimming and in segregated relation to the body of water in which said pool assembly is supported.

2. A pool assembly as in claim 1 wherein said connecting means comprises channel means formed in said housing and configured substantially corresponding to said floatation means, said floatation means comprising a buoyant rim portion substantially defining the periphery of said liner means, said channel means disposed in overlapping, at least partially surrounding relation to said rim portion and in supported relation to said rim portion.

3. A pool assembly as in claim 2 wherein said rim portion comprises an inflated tubular element maintained in floating relation to the surface of the body of water and in supported relation to the remainder of said liner means.

4. A pool assembly as in claim 2 wherein said rim portion comprises a substantially rigid, buoyant structural assembly disposed in a continuous length and thereby defines the supporting periphery of said liner means.

5. A pool assembly as in claim 1 wherein both said first and second housing portions comprise supplementary float means attached thereto, whereby said housing is maintained at least in part on the surface of the body of water in which said pool assembly is supported.

6. A pool assembly as in claim 1 wherein said first housing portion is disposed in at least partially submerged relation to the water maintained in the interior of said liner means;

filter means mounted within said first housing portion in submerged filtering relation to water within said liner means.

7. A pool assembly as in claim 6 wherein said filter means comprises a pump element disposed in submerged relation to water within said liquid container, a plurality of filter elements disposed in upstream fluid communication to said pump and said first housing portion, output means interconnected to said pump means by interconnecting conduit, disposed in water delivering communication to the exterior of said first housing portion and the interior of said line means, inlet means integrally formed in said first housing portion and in water receiving relation to the water within said liner means.

8. A pool assembly as in claim 1 wherein said first housing portion comprises at least a partially hollow interior, cover means pivotally attached to said housing and disposed in at least covering relation to said first housing portion, whereby access to said first housing portion is obtainable.

9. A pool assembly as in claim 1 wherein said first and second housing portions are disposed in interconnecting relation to one another and configured to collectably define at least a portion of said channel means, said channel means movably mounted on said floatation means and serving to secure said dock assembly to said floatation means.

10. A pool assembly as in claim 1 wherein said second housing portion comprises a support platform being specifically configured and dimensioned to support a human body thereon.

11. A pool assembly as in claim 1 wherein said liner means comprises at least two liner assemblies interconnected to one another by said deck means, said connecting means formed in said housing of said deck means and comprising at least two channel elements disposed in spaced relation to one another and removably mounted on the floatation means of each of said liner elements.

12. A pool assembly as in claim 1 wherein said first housing portion is connected in substantially cantilevered relation to said second housing portion and disposed substantially adjacent said channel means and extending into the interior of said liner means.

13. A pool assembly of the type primarily designed to be floatingly supported in a body of water, said pool assembly comprising:

liner means dimensioned and configured to define a liquid container disposed in substantially segregated relation from the body of water, said liner means comprising a base portion and side wall means, said side wall means defining a peripheral edge oppositely disposed along said side wall means from said base portion serving to define the open end of said liner means, floatation means secured to said side wall means along the length of said peripheral edge, said peripheral edge secured to said floatation means along the undersurface thereof so as to define a continuous junction, said continuous junction disposed below the surface of the water maintained within said liner means and the surface of the body of water in which said pool assembly is supported;

said floatation means formed from a buoyant material and disposed to substantially define at least a portion of the peripheral boundary of said liner means and positioned in supporting relation to the remainder of said liner means at least in part on the surface of the body of water, whereby water may be maintained within said liquid container for swimming and in segregated relation to the body of water in which said pool assembly is supported.