Decorative fountain

• US 4,088,880 A
• Filed: 03/17/1976
• Issued: 05/09/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Glenn Walsh
• Original Assignee: Glenn Walsh
• Inventors: Walsh, Glenn
• Primary Examiner(s): Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mar, Michael
• Application Number:
  US05/667,910
• Time in Patent Office: 783 Days
• Field of Search: 239/16-20, 239/22, 239/23, 240/10 CH, 240/2.25, 240/26, 240/2 LF
• US Class Current: 362/96
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 17/08 Fountains drinking fountains E03B9/20; wash fountains E03C1/16
• CPC Class Codes: F21L 4/08 characterised by means for in situ recharging of the batteries or cells
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 9/02 the power supply being a battery or accumulator
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2121/02 for fountains
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/401 for swimming pools

Abstract

A decorative fountain especially adapted for use in a swimming pool, the fountain being adapted to float at the surface of the pool and incorporating a sealed beam light bulb for illumination of the fountain display, and further embodying a self-contained source of electrical current for the light bulb.

Claims

1. A lighted fountain comprising a casing having side and bottom walls and having an upwardly presented opening, a light source comprising a sealed beam electric light bulb, with a broad lens directing light upwardly, the broad lens substantially closing the opening of the casing and the peripheral portion of the broad lens being mounted on and having a waterproof seal with the side wall of the casing around said opening, the bulb having a base received in the opening of the casing, a rechargeable battery for supplying operating current for the bulb, the casing having a chamber below the light bulb accommodating the base of the bulb and the battery, the casing walls being imperforate except for said upwardly presented opening, so that the casing walls and said broad lens completely enclose the base portion of the bulb and the battery, a buoyant ring surrounding the upper portion of the casing, a ballast weight at the bottom of the casing chamber, a series of adjustable fountain spray nozzles spaced around the lens and directed upwardly in position to be lighted by the bulb, and water supply means for the spray nozzles including an annular water supply manifold extending around the broad lens and a flexible water supply hose communicating with the manifold.

2. A fountain as defined in claim 1 in which the displacement and the weight of the fountain including its buoyant ring provides for floatation of the fountain in water with the discharge ends of the series of spray nozzles positioned above the water level.

3. A fountain as defined in claim 1 and further including mounting means for the nozzles providing for angular adjustment of the axes of the nozzles with respect to the vertical.

4. A fountain as defined in claim 1 and further having a waterproof battery charging connection in a lower region of the casing.

5. A fountain as defined in claim 1 and further including a weight carried by the hose and serving to anchor the fountain.

6. A lighted fountain as defined in claim 1 and further including a light switch having an operating element projecting externally of the casing below the water level.