Foldable spa cover and lift unit
OwnerE. Jess Tudorinventor
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Abstract
A combination foldable spa cover and lifting device including a folding spa, cover with integral lifting sockets and a lifting device having a pair of first ends pivotally connectable to a spa structure, and second ends having engagement shafts keyed to the lifting sockets such that a folded spa cover is easily lifted and displaced to one side of the spa structure by pivot of the lifting device and transport of the folded spa cover.
Claims26
A foldable spa cover and lift unit for installation on a spa structure having sides and a top, the lift unit comprising:
- a spa cover having first and second half-cover segments interconnected by a center fold;
- each half-cover segment having a top and sides;
- a spa cover lifting device having side arms pivotally connectable to opposite sides of the spa structure, the arms each having a distal end;
- and,
- an interconnection mechanism for pivotally connecting the side arms of the lifting device to the first half-cover segment of the spa cover adjacent to the center fold, wherein the interconnection mechanism includes a shaft assembly at the distal ends of the side arms and the first half-cover segment includes a socket assembly on opposite sides of the first half-cover segment, wherein the shaft assembly and socket assembly have a releasable engagement means for releasable connecting the shaft assembly to the socket assembly for pivot of the spa cover to a storage position when the spa cover and lift unit is installed on a spa structure and the arms of the lift device are pivoted to the side of the spa structure, and wherein the socket assembly on each side of the first half-cover segment has a mounting structure in the first half-cover segment and a rigid cross-member within the first half-cover segment extending from one side of the first half-cover segment to the opposite side with the mounting structure of the socket assembly being connected to the rigid cross-member.
A foldable spa cover and lift unit for installation on a spa structure having sides and a top, the lift unit comprising:
- spa cover having first and second half-cover segments interconnected by a center fold;
- each half-cover segment having a top and sides;
- a spa cover lifting device having side arms pivotally connectable to opposite sides of the spa structure, the arms each having a distal end;
- and, an interconnection mechanism for pivotally connecting the side arms of the lifting device to the first half-cover segment of the spa cover adjacent to the center fold, wherein the interconnection mechanism includes a shaft assembly at the distal ends of the side arms and the first half-cover segment includes a socket assembly on opposite sides of the first half-cover segment, wherein the shaft assembly and socket assembly have releasable engagement means for releasably connecting the shaft assembly to the socket assembly for pivot of the spa cover to a storage position when the spa cover and lift unit is installed on a spa cover to a storage position when the spa cover and lift unit is installed on a spa structure and the arms of the lift device are pivoted to the side of the spa structure, and wherein one of the shaft assembly and the socket assembly have a keyway and the other of the shaft assembly and the socket assembly is keyed to the keyway.
The foldable spa cover and lift unit of claimed 1, wherein the socket assembly has a tube segment with a flat portion and the shaft assembly has a pin insertable into the tube segment, the pin having a flat portion complimentary to the flat portion of the tube segment wherein the pin of the shaft assembly is keyed to the tube segment :of the socket assembly by alignment of the flat portion of the pin with the flat portion of the tube segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.