Swimming pool coping

• US 4,229,844 A
• Filed: 04/30/1979
• Issued: 10/28/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ethyl Corporation (Newmarket Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Ethyl Corporation (Newmarket Corporation)
• Inventors: Cribben, James T., Feeser, Richard A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Levy, Stuart S.
• Application Number:
  US06/034,862
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• Field of Search: 4/172, 4/172.19, 4/172.21, 4/146, 52/169.7, 52/169.8, 52/300, 52/588, 52/595, 52/716
• US Class Current: 52/716.2
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/142 with fixing means for sealing foil

Abstract

A two-piece coping for a swimming pool comprising an edge piece and a cover piece. The edge piece includes a base plate for fastening to the top of a pool wall, an opening for receiving a pool liner, an opening for pivotally engaging the cover piece, and means on the base plate for engaging fastening means on the cover piece. The cover piece includes means for pivotally engaging the edge piece and means for fastening the cover piece to the fastening means on the base plate of the edge piece.

Claims

1. A swimming pool coping comprising an edge piece and a cover piece;

said edge piece including a base plate for attachment to a wall of a swimming pool, an intermediate member extending upwardly from the base plate for engaging a corresponding central member of the cover piece, a channel extending from one end of the base plate for receiving the edge of a swimming pool liner, a curved outer end extending from the upper wall of the channel and mating means extending from the upper part of the curved outer end for pivotally engaging mating means on the cover piece;

said cover piece including a mating means on said cover piece for pivotally engaging the edge piece mating means, a member extending downwardly from the cover piece mating means for resting on the edge piece, a vertical member extending downwardly from the other end of the cover piece for resting on one edge of the base plate and a central member extending downwardly from the cover piece between the mating means and the vertical member for engaging the intermediate member on the base plate of the edge piece;

wherein the mating means on the edge piece includes a downwardly extending curved member which forms a curved channel for receiving a beaded edge on one end of the cover piece and the mating means on the cover piece comprises a beaded edge for engaging the curved channel of the mating means of the edge piece and a curved member extending downwardly and outwardly from the mating means of the cover piece below the beaded edge which forms a channel with the beaded edge for receiving the downwardly extending curved member of the mating means on the edge piece.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the edge piece includes a short member extending upwardly and perpendicularly from the edge of the base plate opposite the liner receiving channel.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the downwardly extending vertical member has a flange extending inwardly and horizontally from the end thereof for resting on the base plate of the edge piece.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the intermediate member of the edge piece and the central member of the cover piece each have lips thereon which are adapted to be engaged with each other.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein when the edge piece and cover piece are joined together, a relatively even surface is formed on the surface of the coping for contact with a part of a person.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of longitudinal ridges are formed on the upper surface of each the edge piece and the cover piece.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the member extending downwardly from the cover piece mating means has a flange extending outwardly and horizontally therefrom and the flange has a short vertical member extending perpendicularly downwardly therefrom at an intermediate position thereon.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the member extending downwardly from the cover piece mating means extends sufficiently downwardly to rest on the base plate of the edge piece and the downwardly extending member has an inwardly extending flange thereon for resting on the base plate of the edge piece.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the base plate of the edge piece has a plurality of means therein for receiving bolts for attaching the base plate to a wall of a swimming pool.