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US 4,059,856 AGranted
Swimming pool gutter
OwnerJames A. Pattersoninventor
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Abstract
A swimming pool gutter including a combined gutter conduit and a sealed filtered water inlet conduit at the bottom of the gutter conduit. The gutter is formed from two sheet metal members joined by two exposed welds to form a deep-walled gutter capable of accommodating water surges and waves without flooding and having a sealed filtered water inlet combined therewith.
Claims9
A gutter for swimming pool comprising, in combination,
- a first sheet metal member including a vertical back wall, a horizontal bottom wall, a vertical inside wall;
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- a second sheet metal member including a vertical wall in spaced relation to said back wall and a horizontal wall spaced substantially below the top of said vertical wall of said second member defining with said first member a gutter conduit, over the top of said vertical wall of said second member water may flow from the pool into said gutter conduit;
- said vertical wall of said second member being joined to said vertical inside wall of said first member by a continuous, longitudinal weld exposed at the pool side thereof to form the inside wall of said gutter;
- said horizontal wall of said second member being joined to said first member by a second continuous, longitudinal weld exposed at the gutter conduit side thereof to form at the bottom of said gutter conduit substantially below the top of said vertical wall of said second member a sealed inlet conduit adapted to receive filtered water under pressure for introduction into the pool, said vertical inside wall of said first member forming the inside wall of said inlet conduit.
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