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US 5,706,540 AGranted
Automatic cleaners for sweeping and cleaning swimming pools
AssigneeKreepy Krauly USA, Inc.
InventorWeislaw Niewiarowski
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Abstract
An automatic pool cleaner including a body, an elongated member connected to the body, the elongated member having two fluid flow paths, a valve mounted for alternately directing the flow of fluid between the fluid flow paths, the upper ends of the two fluid flow paths being connected together by an arcuate passage in a first plane substantially co-planar with the elongated member, and the arcuate passage connected to at least one arcuate outlet passage in a second plane at an angle to the first plane.
Claims6
An automatic pool cleaner comprising:
- a body;
- an elongated member having an axis, said elongated member being connected to said body, and having two fluid flow paths therein;
- a valve mounted relative to said elongated member for alternately directing the flow of fluid between the two fluid flow paths;
- an arcuate passage;
- the upper ends of the two fluid flow paths being connected together by said arcuate passage in a first plane substantially co-planar with the axis of the elongated member;
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- said arcuate passage connected to at least one arcuate outlet passage in a second plane at an angle to the first plane.
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