Swimming pool fluid distribution system

• US 4,135,549 A
• Filed: 02/18/1976
• Issued: 01/23/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert W. Baker
• Original Assignee: Robert W. Baker
• Inventors: Baker, Robert W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schwadron, Martin P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Spiegel, H. Jay
• Application Number:
  US05/769,906
• Time in Patent Office: 1,070 Days
• Field of Search: 137/883, 137/551-552, 137/884, 137/599.1, 73/349, 4/172.15, 4/172.16, 4/172.17, 4/191, 4/DIG. 7
• US Class Current: 137/552
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/12 Devices or arrangements for circulating water , i.e. devices for removal of polluted water, cleaning baths or for water treatment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/8175 Plural
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87346 Including mixing feature
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87877 Single inlet with multiple distinctly valved outlets

Abstract

A main fluid pipe within a box-like housing has four auxiliary pipes connected thereto. Each auxiliary pipe extends to the outside of the housing. The first auxiliary pipe is connected to the drain of a swimming pool; the second is connected to the swimming pool pump; the third is connected to the skimmer and the fourth which extends upwardly is normally unconnected but closed by a valve. An adapter allows a standard garden hose to be connected to the fourth pipe for priming the pump and the swimming pool skimmer and drain lines. Chemicals may also be introduced into the fluid system through the fourth pipe. A thermometer, visible from the outside of the housing measures the temperature of the water within the pipe connected to the pump. The thermometer also measures the outside air temperature for comparison with the water temperature.

Claims

1. A swimming pool fluid distribution system comprising:

a box shaped housing having a substantially hollow space therein;

a main fluid pipe mounted within the space within said housing;

at least four auxiliary fluid pipes mounted within the space within said housing and being connected to said main fluid pipe, each of said auxiliary pipes having an end which is accessible from the exterior of said housing;

three of said auxiliary pipes having ends accessible from the bottom of said housing, and one of said auxiliary pipes being an inlet pipe having an opening facing upwardly;

each of said auxiliary fluid pipes including a valve therein, each of said valves having a means connected thereto for controlling the operation of the same, said control means being accessible from the exterior of said housing;

temperature sensing means including means for sensing the temperature of the fluid in at least one of said pipes, and means for sensing the temperature of the atmosphere around said housing;

means mounted adjacent an end of said housing for visually displaying the temperatures sensed by said sensing means, and

an adaptor means and a plug means, said adaptor means having a first end adapted to be connected to said opening of said inlet pipe and a second end adapted to be connected to a standard garden hose, said plug means also being adapted to be connected to said opening of said inlet pipe for closing the same.

2. A swimming pool fluid distribution system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the ends of said auxiliary pipes extend to the exterior of said housing.