Swimming pools and like structures of the type having endless peripheral metal walls

Claim 1

AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SWIMMING POOLS, POOLS, STOCK WATERING PANS, SILOS, GRAIN BINS AND LIKE STRUCTURES OF THE TYPE HAVING AN ENDLESS PERIPHERAL WALL OF PREDETERMINED CONTOUR IN THE HORIZONTAL DIRECTION, COMPRISING: A HORIZONTALLY ELONGATE MASONRY FOOTING FORMING THE BOTTOM PERIPHERY OF THE STRUCTURE; A HORIZONTALLY ELONGATE STRUCTURAL LEVELING SUPPORT MEMBER CONFORMING HORIZONTALLY TO SAID PREDETERMINED CONTOUR AND PRESENTING IN CROSS-SECTION A VERTICAL WEB AND A HORIZONTAL TOP FLANGE, SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBER BEING MOUNTED ON SAID FOOTING WITH THE LOWER PART OF ITS WEB EMBEDDED IN SAID FOOTING LEAVING THE UPPER PART THEREOF PROJECTING UPWARDLY FORM SAID FOOTING; A PERIPHERAL VERTICAL-WALLFORMING ASSEMBLY OF PERIPHERALLY FLANGED VERTICALLY ARRANGED PANELS IN HORIZONTAL END-TO-END RELATIONSHIP TO FORM A HORIZONTAL ROW, WHICH IS MOUNTED ON THE TOP FLANGE OF SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBER, EACH PANEL BEING PRESHAPED IN THE HORIZONTAL DIRECTION TO THE HORIZONTAL CONTOUR REQUIRED TO MAKE SAID ROW CONFORM TO SAID PREDETERMINED CONTOUR; AN ELONGATE FLEXIBLE SEALING STRIP INTERPOSED BETWEEN THE HORIZONTAL TOP FLANGE OF SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBER AND THE ADJACENT BOTTOM FLANGE OF SAID ROW OF PANELS TO EXTEND LONGITUDINALLY ALONG THE HORIZONTAL JOINT THEREBETWEEN FOR SEALING IT AND TO PROJECT TRANSVERSELY INWARD FROM SAID JOINT FOR A SUBSTANTIAL DISTANCE, MEANS TO SECURE THE FLANGES OF SAID JOINT TOGETHER; AND A MASONRY BOTTOM LOCATED ALONG THE INNER SIDE OF SAID WALL TO EXTEND ABOVE SAID JOINT WITH THE INWARDLY PROJECTING PORTION OF SAID SEALING STRIP BEING EMBEDDED IN SAID MASONRY BOTTOM AND SEALING THE JOINT BETWEEN THE WALL AND THE MASONRY BOTTOM.