Floating swimming pool

• US 4,145,770 A
• Filed: 09/08/1977
• Issued: 03/27/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Louis Zaris
• Original Assignee: Louis Zaris
• Inventors: Zaris, Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Artis, Henry K.
• Application Number:
  US05/831,376
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 4/171, 4/172.12, 4/172, 4/172.19
• US Class Current: 114/264
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/0012 Floating swimming pools

Abstract

A buoyant sectional deck for surrounding a swimming area, perforate side plates depending from the deck and defining a side wall, perforate bottom plates extending across the lower region of the side wall to define the bottom wall, and means securing together the bottom and side plates with the latter secured to the deck sections.

Claims

1. A floating swimming pool comprising a plurality of buoyant sections each having flat upper and lower surfaces and arranged in horizontally coplanar adjacent side-by-side relation about a closed outline configuration, a laterally outstanding flange on each of said sections with the flanges of adjacent sections offset vertically from and in overlying relation with each other for securement together of any two adjacent sections with their flanges overlapping, securing means releasably securing together overlapping flanges of adjacent buoyant sections, a plurality of perforate side plates arranged in edge-to-edge relation with each other and depending from said buoyant sections to define an encompassing side wall, a plurality of perforate bottom plates arranged in edge-to-edge relation with each other and extending between the lower edges of said side wall to define a bottom wall, and additional securing means detachably securing together said bottom and side plates and detachably securing the latter to said buoyant sections.

2. A floating swimming pool according to claim 1, said buoyant sections each comprising a hollow air-filled block-like member with said outstanding flanges having one surface generally on the horizontal center line for overlapping flange engagement with a like inverted section.

3. A floating swimming pool according to claim 2, said additional securing means comprising a depending flange on the inner side of each buoyant section for connection to said side plates.

4. A floating swimming pool according to claim 3, said depending flanges comprising integral extensions on said sections.

5. A floating swimming pool according to claim 1, in combination with an outboard motor mounted on said buoyant sections and having a propeller depending into the space encompassed by said side wall for emersion in water, and a hollow open ended duct enclosing said propeller, said duct serving to guard the occupants from injury while aiding in the circulation of liquid.