Swimming pool coping system

• US 4,601,073 A
• Filed: 05/03/1985
• Issued: 07/22/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Donald E. Methot
• Original Assignee: Donald E. Methot
• Inventors: Methot, Donald E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Charles E.
• Application Number:
  US06/729,098
• Time in Patent Office: 445 Days
• Field of Search: 4/506, 4/510, 52/169.7, 52/300
• US Class Current: 4/506
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 2004/147 the liner edge being held in a slot
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/142 with fixing means for sealing foil

Abstract

The present invention relates to vinyl lined swimming pool copings and provides an aluminum sub-coping of the concrete receptor type in combination with a fully supported PVC snap-cap which is secured in place over what would otherwise be an exposed surface of the aluminum sub-coping, utilizing special locking grooves in the sub-coping. As well, the PVC snap-cap can be provided with a built-in bead cover and/or bead retainer. Using appropriate tooling, the aluminum sub-coping of the present invention can be shaped to permit it to be installed on curved shaped pools.

Claims

1. A unitary, bead-retaining coping for a vinyl-lined swimming pool having a deck, including:

a sub-coping adapted to be permanently secured to the pool side edge of a swimming pool deck, said sub-coping having an outer vertical face portion, said outer vertical face portion having an upper, inwardly extending element adapted to engage and secure said sub-coping to the top of said deck, said inwardly extending element incorporating an upwardly facing cap-retaining groove;

an intermediate, inwardly extending locking member on said sub-coping below said upper, inwardly extending element and adapted to further secure said sub-coping to said deck;

a lower, inwardly extending portion formed in said vertical face portion of said sub-coping, and forming the upper wall of a bead-retaining groove;

an inwardly extending, horizontal base plate unitarily formed with said lower, inwardly extending portion of said vertical face portion of said sub-coping and forming a lower wall of said bead-retaining groove, said upper and lower walls cooperating to define an inwardly extending liner bead retaining groove, said base plate being adapted to engage the top edge of a pool below its deck;

first and second projections extending upwardly and outwardly, respectively, from said sub-coping base plate and adapted to engage and secure a liner bead of a vinyl swimming pool liner in said retaining groove; and

a removable cap for said sub-coping, said cap including a vertical cover member carrying at its upper edge a downwardly extending tongue portion for engaging said upwardly facing cap-retaining groove, and including at its lower portion a downwardly extending bead protection leg and an inwardly extending bead-engaging arm, said inwardly extending bead-engaging arm adapted to extend into said liner bead retaining groove in contact with the upper wall thereof for engaging and securing said liner bead against said lower wall and against at least one of said first and second projections, said cap means being removably attachable to said sub-coping to secure said vinyl pool liner to the top edge of a pool below its deck and to protect the upper bead edge of said liner, said tongue means and said bead-retaining arm cooperating to hold said vertical cover member of said removable cap securely against said vertical face portion of said sub-coping to prevent entry of water therebetween and to hold said downwardly extending bead protection leg securely against a vinyl pool liner to thereby protect the upper edge thereof.

2. The coping of claim 1, wherein said coping is extruded, and is shaped to provide a pouring form for a concrete swimming pool deck.