US 2008/0172782 A1Published application

Swimming pool gap securement assembly

AssigneePool Cover Corporation

InventorsMaryEllen Comitino, LeeAnn Pesta

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Abstract

A swimming pool gap securement assembly prevents the accessibility of persons, animals or other objects into swimming pools, because of gaps left between the edges of a swimming pool cover and the surfaces of vertically rising decorative landscape obstructions associated therewith. The assembly provides one or more protective extensions of a swimming pool cover which covers any gaps present when a swimming pool cover encounters these vertically rising obstructions. These panels, one for each gap encountered, are generally of triangular shape, of the same fabric as the main pool cover or any other pool cover materials, and are sewn into, or otherwise attached to, the reinforced webbing at the edge of the pool cover. The lower horizontal edge and the vertical end edge of the wing extension panel have an attached edge strip with a linear array of holes engageable with one or more anchors imbedded into the deck or on the side of the obstruction itself.

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Dependent claims

A swimming pool gap securement assembly comprising:

a cover for a swimming pool;
a cover panel attached to said pool cover for covering a vertical opening in a side of said pool caused by an obstruction mounted on a deck of said pool interrupting the normally flat swimming pool deck adjacent said opening;
said pool cover having an intersecting pattern of reinforcing webbings which extend beyond an edge of said pool cover, said reinforcing webbings extending beyond said edge in the form of adjustable straps, said straps each having a distal end carrying means for engaging a knob mounted on said deck of said pool for securing said cover over the pool opening;
said intersecting pattern of reinforcing webbings being incorporated into an upper surface of said cover panel overlapping said obstruction and forming adjustable straps extending beyond an edge of said cover panel and terminating in distal ends having means for engaging knobs mounted on said obstruction to cover some of said vertical opening;
a wing extension panel attachable to a portion of said edge of said pool cover for overlapping said deck, one end of said wing extension panel being flush against a side wall of said obstruction to cover more of said vertical opening;
and,
said cover panel and wing extension panel being customized on said pool cover to fit a specific obstruction on said swimming pool deck.

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