US 4,925,181 A · Swimming pool water cannon

Abstract

An amusement device for forcibly propelling a coherent water jet from a body of water such as a swimming pool utilizing a housing having a generally tapering open passage from one end to the other, with the larger end of the passage being open and essentially unobstructed for admitting water freely into the passage when the larger end is at least partially submerged in the body of water, the smaller end of the passage being formed to provide an open but constricted nozzle whereby quantities of water forced into the passage through the larger end are accelerated and ejected forcibly through the nozzle to form a substantially coherent water jet capable of traversing significant distance before breaking up, control and actuation of the device being provided for by handles on opposite sides of the housing adjacent to the larger open end. A modified form of the invention mounts a pair of conical housings in side-by-side relation for joint action.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A device for forcibly propelling a water jet from the surface portion of a body of water, comprising

a truncated cone having a longitudinal axis together with an open large end communicating with an open smaller end, and
manually engageable handle means on said cone formed for grasping and pulling said cone in the direction of said large end with said large end at least partially submerged in said body of water and said small end above the surface of said body of water so as to forcibly eject a jet of the water through said small end of said cone substantially along said axis in the direction opposite to the direction said cone is pulled by said handle means.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Swimming pool water cannon

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Swimming pool water cannon

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Abstract

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