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US 5,143,605 AGranted
Mobile floating skimmer
OwnerDavid Masciarelliinventor
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Abstract
A mobile floating swimming pool skimmer having a flotation apparatus with a skimmer head assembly and a flexible conduit assembly interconnecting said skimmer head assembly with the swimming pool vacuum system. A leaf canister is incorporated into the flexible conduit assembly.
Claims7
A mobile floating skimmer for use in a swimming pool having a filter pump assembly and a vacuum fitting, comprising:
- a flotation apparatus with a skimmer head assembly, comprising:
- a vertical cylindrical pipe section with an annular bracket radially attached thereto and surrounding a portion thereof;
- a plurality of L-shaped elements laterally and radially extending from said bracket, each L-shaped element having a horizontal section with two ends and an upwardly extending vertical section with two ends, wherein one end of each horizontal section is attached to the bracket and the other end of the horizontal section forms an L-shaped elbow with one end of the vertical section;
- a plurality of flotation bulbs, one for each L-shaped element, slidably attached to the vertical sections of each L-shaped element;
- wherein the uppermost end of each vertical section terminates in a stop flange which defines the maximum upward movement of each flotation bulb;
- and
- a flexible conduit assembly interconnecting said skimmer head assembly with said vacuum fitting, said flexible conduit assembly having a first flexible conduit interconnecting said skimmer head assembly with a leaf canister, and a second flexible conduit interconnecting said leaf canister with said vacuum fitting.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.