Swimming pool with liner porthole

• US 5,416,932 A
• Filed: 06/03/1994
• Issued: 05/23/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Raymond J. Ventrice
• Original Assignee: Raymond J. Ventrice
• Inventors: Ventrice, Raymond J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Fetsuga, Robert M.
• Application Number:
  US08/253,318
• Time in Patent Office: 354 Days
• Field of Search: 4/488, 4/494, 4/496, 4/506, 4/904, 4/585, 435/254, 220/403, 220/662, 220/663
• US Class Current: 4/496
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 2004/146 Fixing of liners
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/14 Parts, details or accessories not otherwise provided for

Abstract

An above-ground outdoor circular swimming pool having the typical outer circumscribing support walls with a through-space as symbolic porthole-like window there is placed within space circumscribed by the outer circumscribing support walls, a water-retaining translucent or transparent liner mounted at and suspended circumscribingly from upper securing structure at the top of the circumscribing support walls. Thereby the secured and suspended transparent liner wall when containing water is pressed toward the porthole-like window, such that there is provided a line-of-sight view from each of the inside and the outside through the transparent liner. The liner itself if sufficiently rigid or sturdy in part or in whole, and/or alternatively a separate supporting transparent sheet-like transparent rigid and sturdy solid and/or mesh structure overlaps the through-space.

Claims

1. In a swimming pool in a combination of:

A) upright substantially rigid walls a) extending above ground level with the upright walls at least substantially circumscribing pool water retainable liner-space, and b) having upper portions, c) having water containable vessel liner securing means anchoring upper circumscribing portions of a swimming pool liner at said wall upper portions of the upright walls, and d) including at-least one through-space window-like opening through said walls; and

B) said swimming pool liner a) having a bottom portion and b) having a circumscribing liner wall that is substantially uprightly extendable with (i) a liner lower wall portion thereof continuous with said bottom portion, (ii) a liner upper portion thereof securable by said water containable vessel liner securing means such that said uprightly extendable circumscribing liner wall is supported at a height above a predetermined intended water level containable within said water containable vessel liner, and (iii) an intermediate liner wall portion between said liner lower wall portion and said liner upper portion, the improvement comprising;

said intermediate liner wall portion having a part being at least translucent; and

     2) said through-space window-like opening being positionable to be alignable with said part at a predetermined elevation such that there exists a line of sight through both of said through-space window-like opening and said part.

2. The combination and improvement of claim 1, in which said part is of a shape and is of an area substantially the same as said through-space window-like opening.

3. The combination and improvement of claim 1, in which said part includes at-least a major proportion of said intermediate liner wall portion.

4. The combination and improvement of claim 1, in which said each of said part and said through-space window-like opening are shaped substantially as a ship porthole.

5. The combination and improvement of claim 4, in which said part is transparent.

6. The combination and improvement of claim 5, in which in said rigid walls, said through-space window-like opening has opposite spaced-apart edges spaced-apart a distance ranging from about one inch up to about forty-eight inches.

7. The combination and improvement of claim 6, in which said distance ranges from about six inches up to about twenty-four inches.

8. The combination and improvement of claim 7, including a see-through substantially rigid support structure positioned and mounted substantially flatly between said part and said rigid walls and in alignment with and over said through-space window-like opening such that support is provided sufficiently to avoid significant protrusion of said part through said through-space window-like opening when water is retained by said swimming pool liner.

9. The combination and improvement of claim 4, including a framing structure on said intermediate liner wall portion at said through-space window-like opening positioned and structured to impart an impression of and resemblance to a porthole.

10. The combination and improvement of claim 4, in which in said rigid walls, said through-space window-like opening has opposite spaced-apart edges spaced-apart a distance ranging from about one inch up to about forty-eight inches.

11. The combination and improvement of claim 4, including decorative matter on said intermediate liner wall portion at said through-space window-like opening positioned and structured to impart an impression of and resemblance to a porthole.

12. The combination and improvement of claim 1, in which in said rigid walls, said through-space window-like opening has opposite spaced-apart edges spaced-apart a distance ranging from about one inch up to about forty-eight inches.

13. The combination and improvement of claim 12, in which said distance ranges from about six inches up to about twenty-four inches.

14. The combination and improvement of claim 1, in which said part is transparent.

15. The combination and improvement of claim 1, including a framing structure on said intermediate liner wall portion at said through-space window-like opening positioned and structured to impart an impression of and resemblance to a porthole.

16. The combination and improvement of claim 1, including a see-through substantially rigid support structure positioned and mounted substantially flatly between said part and said rigid walls and in alignment with and over said through-space window-like opening such that support is provided sufficiently to avoid significant protrusion of said part through said through-space window-like opening when water is retained by said swimming pool liner.

17. The combination and improvement of claim 1, including decorative matter on said intermediate liner wall portion at said through-space window-like opening positioned and structured to impart an impression of and resemblance to a porthole.

18. In a liquid containing structure in a combination of:

A) upright substantially rigid walls a) extending above ground level with the upright walls at least substantially circumscribing liquid retainable liner-space, b) having upper portions, c) water containable vessel liner securing means anchoring upper circumscribing portions of a liquid retaining vessel liner at said wall upper portions of the upright walls, and d) including at-least one through-space window-like opening through said walls; and

B) said liquid retaining vessel liner a) having a bottom portion and b) having a circumscribing liner wall that is substantially uprightly extendable with (i) a liner lower wall portion thereof continuous with said bottom portion, (ii) a liner upper portion thereof securable by said liquid retaining vessel liner securing means such that said uprightly extendable circumscribing liner wall is supported at a height above a predetermined intended liquid level containable within said liquid retainer liner, and (iii) an intermediate liner wall portion between said liner lower wall portion and said liner upper portion, the improvement comprising;

said intermediate liner wall portion having a part being at least translucent; and

     2) said through-space window-like opening being positionable to be alignable with said part at a predetermined elevation such that there exists a line of sight through both of said through-space window-like opening and said part.