Diving pool

• US 4,905,326 A
• Filed: 11/18/1988
• Issued: 03/06/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kashima Kensetsu Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Kajima Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Tatsuro, Yoshida, Tadashi, Baba, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Charles E.
• Application Number:
  US07/273,424
• Time in Patent Office: 473 Days
• Field of Search: 4/488, 4/489, 4/494, 4/506, 4/513, 4/491, 272/1 B, 272/3, 272/32, 52/169.7
• US Class Current: 4/488
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/16 for swimming
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/00 Swimming or splash baths or pools

Abstract

A diving pool allowing scuba diving to be easily and safely enjoyed, which comprises a pool bottom progressively becoming deeper from its periphery towards its center, a tower constructed on the pool bottom at a central deepest area and rising to a level above the pool surface, an artificial island formed at a level of the pool surface around the tower, and a deck above the level of the pool surface around the tower; wherein the diving pool can be further equipped, if desired, with a water stream generator adapted to generate a water stream and a wave generator adapted to generate waves in the pool.

Claims

1. A diving pool comprising:

a pool provided at substantially the center of a large concrete building;

a pool-side terrace provided at a pool side;

a free space provided above said pool, said free space being covered with a transparent sun-roof;

rooms for various purposes provided on floors above said pool-side terrace;

rooms for various purposes provided beneath said pool-side terrace;

a bottom of said pool provided such that said bottom gradually deepens from a peripheral area toward a center of said pool;

a tower provided at a deepest area of the center of said pool, said tower enclosing an area and having an inner and an outer wall and being provided with stairs in said area for people walking up and down and widows on said inner wall of said tower for looking into said pool;

an artificial island provided around said outer wall of said tower, said island being at a normal water level of said pool and being of such dimension to hold users of said pool thereon; and

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a deck provided on said outer wall of said tower and above said water level, said deck having sufficient width for people to walk thereon.

2. A diving pool according to claim 1, further comprising an air-bubble generator provided at the bottom of said pool, said air-bubble generator for forming an air curtain in the water of said pool.

3. A diving pool as recited in claim 1, further comprising a water stream generator provided in the central deepest area of the pool to generate a water stream and a wave generator provided below the artificial island to generate waves in the pool.

4. A diving pool according to claim 1, further comprising an image projecting means provided at a lowest position of said tower, said image projecting means projecting images on a surface of a pool wall at the deepest area of the center of said pool.