Swimming pool touchpad
First Claim
1. A sealed swimming pool touchpad construction comprising:
- a rear plate;
an array of spaced recesses formed on an inside face of the rear plate;
a spacer seated in the recesses on the inside face of the rear plate, the spacer projecting above the inside face of the rear plate; and
a flexible front plate secured to the rear plate and sealed in watertight fashion to the rear plate around the array of spaced recesses, the front plate being spaced from the rear plate by the spacer in the recesses, such that opposing electrically-conductive portions of an inside face of the front plate and the inside face of the rear plate between the recesses define spaced switch contact surfaces capable of being brought into switch-closing contact by a swimmer making contact with the front plate.
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Abstract
A sealed two-plate swimming pool touchpad construction that is unaffected by pressure, in which a resilient, compressible, non-conductive spacer material such as rubber tubing is seated in an array of spaced recesses or grooves on the inside face of the rear plate to insulatively space a conductive, flexible front plate from the rear plate. The front plate is joined and sealed in watertight fashion to the rear plate around the array of grooves and spacer material. Conductive portions of the inside face of the front plate are flexed into switch-closing/signaling contact with conductive portions of the inside face of the rear plate between the spacer material when a swimmer makes contact with the front plate.
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18 Claims
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1. A sealed swimming pool touchpad construction comprising:
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a rear plate; an array of spaced recesses formed on an inside face of the rear plate; a spacer seated in the recesses on the inside face of the rear plate, the spacer projecting above the inside face of the rear plate; and a flexible front plate secured to the rear plate and sealed in watertight fashion to the rear plate around the array of spaced recesses, the front plate being spaced from the rear plate by the spacer in the recesses, such that opposing electrically-conductive portions of an inside face of the front plate and the inside face of the rear plate between the recesses define spaced switch contact surfaces capable of being brought into switch-closing contact by a swimmer making contact with the front plate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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