Coping attachment system

• US 4,625,343 A
• Filed: 10/07/1985
• Issued: 12/02/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: John C. Bumgarner Sr
• Original Assignee: John C. Bumgarner Sr
• Inventors: Bumgarner, John C. Sr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marcus, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Peters, Leo J.
• Application Number:
  US06/785,254
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• Field of Search: 4/506, 4/510-513, 52/169.7, 52/300, 249/DIG. 3, 249/91, 264/33, 264/34, 264/35
• US Class Current: 4/506
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/141 Coping elements for swimming pools
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 249/03 Swimming pool

Abstract

A system for use in swimming pool construction for temporarily holding a rounded coping to a wall form during pouring of concrete, making the coping a permanent part of the swimming pool but permitting quick removal of the wall form, includes, at intervals, a lag screw rotatably mounted on the top of the wall form in position for the threaded pointed end of the lag screw to engage a vinyl liner slot in the coping, and when rotated to draw the coping against the wall form. To prevent the screw from "walking" in the slot when rotated and to assure coping level, an even coping line and straight wall construction, a coping alignment track on the wall form has a lateral protrusion fitted into the vinyl liner slot and length extending longitudinally of the coping from one lag screw to the next.

Claims

1. In a system for use in forming a poured-concrete swimming pool having:

an integral, rounded metal coping located for being held in place by said poured concrete as a permanent part of said swimming pool and with a vinyl-liner-retaining longitudinal recess opening laterallly therein and an upright lip forming a constriction in said opening by projecting upward towards said coping, and having a temporary upright wall form with a substantially horizontal top for detachable securance to said coping, the improvement comprising;

means for detachably securing said coping to the temporary wall form including;

a screw, means for rotatably mounting the screw to said top, and the screw having a tapering diameter thread engaging said constriction and drawing a portion of said coping against structure of the wall form when said screw is rotated.

2. A system as recited in claim 1, said portion of the coping comprising a lower part of said upright lip.

3. A system as recited in claim 2, said structure of the wall form comprising an upright part of the wall form and a coping alignment track in the form of at least one plate, and means for securing the at least one plate to said top with an edge portion thereof fitting into said coping at said constriction.

4. A system as recited in claim 3, and means for preventing said screw from moving along the coping when rotated, comprising a said plate on each side of the screw and having an end portion abutting said screw.

5. A system as recited in claim 3, the means for securing comprising a pair of said plates in position shimming up said at least one plate.

6. A system for use in forming a poured-concrete swimming pool having;

an integral, rounded coping with a vinyl-liner-retaining longitudinal recess opening laterally therein and an upright lip forming a constriction in said opening by projecting upward towards the coping, and having an upright wall form with a substantially horizontal top for detachable securance to said coping, the improvement comprising;

means for detachably securing said coping to the wall form including;

a lag screw, means for rotatably mounting the lag screw to said top, the lag screw having a thread tapering on a substantially pointed end, engaging said constriction and drawing a portion of said coping against structure of the wall form when said lag screw is rotated, said portion of the coping comprising a lower part of said upright lip, said structure of the wall form comprising an upright part of the wall form and a coping alignment track in the form of at least one plate, and means for securing the at least one plate to said top with an edge portion thereof fitting into said coping at said constriction.

7. A system as recited in claim 6, and means for preventing said lag screw from moving along the coping when rotated, comprising a said plate on each side of the lag screw and having an end portion abutting said lag screw.

8. A system as recited in claim 6, the means for securing comprising a pair of said plates in position shimming up said at least one plate.