Decorative cover for swimming pool pop-up cleaning heads
AssigneeCaretaker Systems, Inc.
InventorsMichael Kenna, Matthew Terrell
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Abstract
Pop-up cleaning heads of the type used in intermittently operated water delivery systems for cleaning pools and the like are provided with a decorative cover, removably attached to the upper surface of the pop-up cleaning head and extending beyond the edge of the cleaning head to overlie the top of the sleeve in which the cleaning head reciprocates. The decorative cover bears indicia and coloring on its upper surface selected to match the appearance of the pool floor surrounding the water delivery system.
Claims17
In an intermittently operated water delivery system used for cleaning pools having a pop-up water delivery cleaning head reciprocally mounted in a sleeve secured in the pool floor, with the upper end of the sleeve thereof generally flush with the surface of the pool floor, and with the upper surface of the cleaning head in its retracted inactive position being substantially co-planar with the upper surface of the sleeve, and the operative active position of the pop-up cleaning head being extended beyond the upper surface of the sleeve, an improvement including in combination:
- a decorative cover attached to the upper surface of the cleaning head and bearing indicia and coloring selected to coordinate with the appearance of the pool floor surrounding the water delivery system wherein the dimensions of the decorative cover are selected to overlie the upper end of the sleeve with the pop-up cleaning head in its retracted inactive position.
In an intermittently operated water delivery system used for cleaning pools a pop-up water delivery cleaning head is reciprocally mounted in a cylindrical sleeve secured in the pool, the sleeve having the upper end thereof generally flush with the surface of the pool floor, and wherein the upper surface of the cleaning head in its retracted inactive position is substantially co-planar with the upper end of the sleeve, and further wherein the upper surface of the cleaning head has a slot therein, an improvement including in combination:
- a decorative cover in the form of a circular member having an upper surface and a lower surface, with a slot therethrough aligned with the slot in the upper surface of the cleaning head;
- depending resilient projections extending from the edge of the slot on the lower surface of the decorative cover for engaging the slot in the upper surface of the cleaning head for removably securing the decorative cover to the upper surface of the cleaning head;
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- the upper surface of the decorative cover bearing indicia and coloring selected to match the appearance of the pool floor surrounding the water delivery system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.