Swimming pool skimmer
AssigneeGraham Mervyn Elliott
InventorWilliam J. Newcombe-Bond
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Abstract
The invention relates to a skimmer for swimming pools which includes a float having an opening for receiving debris on the surface of the pool, and a mesh rearwardly of the opening for catching the debris, the float being connected by a line to the pipe of an automatic suction cleaner near the suction cleaner for the float to be dragged behind the suction cleaner.
Claims1
A towed swimming pool skimmer in combination with a submerged automatic suction pool cleaner comprising a pair of floatable laterally spaced elongated elements arranged in spaced apart parallel relation and defining a channel therebetween defining a forward open inlet for receiving debris floating in the pool attendant to the skimmer being towed across the pool,
- said skimmer having a rear outlet,
- a skeletal frame having rods extending transverse of the elements for holding them apart and attached thereto,
- a fore and aft extending rod connected to said transversely extending rods providing a towing line attachment structure, a line connecting said attachment structure and a pipe of said pool cleaner,
- and a mesh collector bag slipped over said elements located rearwardly at said outlet for collecting the debris passing in the channel through said outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.