US 4,574,017 AGranted

Method for securing concrete form board to pool and maintaining concrete from pool liner track

OwnerWilliam J. Stegmeierinventor

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Abstract

A semi-rigid pool coping form board of the type which is temporarily adhered on the generally vertical surface of a pool mouth-bounding structure to project a uniform height above the generally horizontal upper surface of that bounding structure is provided where its basal feet adjoin its coping inner edge-molding concave surface with an integral bead. At regular intervals, the bead is replaced by a spring clip with a similarly shaped nose. Each spring clip is rooted in the foam board to a standard depth with the aid of a stop shoulder and an adhesive. By locating in, snapping into and filling the liner track channel mouth the bead/spring clip structure automatically locates the form boards heightwise in relation to the pool mouth-bounding structure, provides an easy to use and effective secondary securement system for the form boards and keeps the pool liner track channel so free of cement that any clean-up needed is minor.

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Dependent claims

A method for achieving a standard relationship in mounting a coping form board to a pool mouth-bounding structure which has an inwardly-opening, constricted-mouthed pool liner track provided thereon perimetrically of the pool mouth above an at least generally vertically-oriented, inwardly-facing surface of the pool mouth-bounding structure, so as to provide a form for molding the inner end surface of coping for the pool from an originally fluent, settable composition such as concrete,

said method comprising:
providing said coping form board to have an outer face having a profile on an upper portion thereof suitable for molding the inner end surface of coping for the pool, to have at least one outwardly-presented, foot sole on a lower portion thereof and, between said upper and lower portions, to have at least one outwardly projecting, longitudinally extending outwardly tapering protrusion which, basally thereof, is at least slightly thicker when free than the corresponding degree of openness dimension of said constricted-mouthed pool liner track;
at least generally aligning said at least one protrusion form board with the mouth of the pool liner track;
and
pushing the coping form board outwardly towards said pool mouth-bounding structure sufficiently to cause said at least one protrusion to forcibly enter said pool liner track through the mouth thereof and to cause the at least one foot sole to engage said at least generally vertically-oriented, inwardly-facing surface of the pool mouth-bounding structure.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.