Swimming pool, structure

Abstract

Abstract Discloses a swimming pool structure disposed in an excavation comprising a plurality of pool panels, joined together in side by side relationship, disposed vertically in the excavation and defining the pool perimeter. The pool panels have a bottom angle or concrete lock and vertical reinforcing guide sleeves on the rear of the pool panels which are interlocked by a horizontal reversed reinforcing angle. Stakes or concrete reinforcing rods are driven into the ground through the bottom angle and guide sleeves. Coping perimeter concrete reinforcing rods are fixed to long legs of L-shaped coping reinforcing rods whose short legs are disposed in the vertical guide sleeves. The lower portion of the pool panels, the bottom angles or concrete locks and the stake or concrete reinforcing rods are imbeded in the concrete pool bottom. The coping perimeter rods and coping reinforcing rods are imbedded in the concrete coping. Discloses a fabricated pool panel having front and rear walls, right and left side bolting flanges, bottom angle or concrete lock, vertical reinforcingguide sleeves on the rear wall of the pool panel interlocked by a horizontal reversed reinforcing angle. Discloses bull nose coping, of integral, one-piece construction, extruded from polyvinyl chloride. The coping has a rounded vertical profile, reversed lip, web, reversed clip, depending leg and depending flange. By means of the reversed clip and depending leg, the coping is disposed on the top of the pool panel, and as disposed is wedgingly held in place by the angled depending leg and flange. Discloses a process of fabricating a colored pool panel whose surface has a high gloss, is non-porous, has structural flexibility and is resistant to cracking and chipping, comprising the steps of applying a layer consituting a uniform mixture of colored gel-coat, catalyst and thinner to a plate glass mold whose casting surface has been prepared to have a greater degree of polish and smoothness than originally existing, allowing the applied layer to cure and successively applying shock-resistant, flexible, polyester resin alternating with layers of fiberglass glass fiber. Discloses a process of fabricating a metal-flake pool panel whose surface has a high gloss, is non-porous, has structural flexibility and is resistant to cracking and chipping, comprising the steps of applying a layer constituting a uniform mixture of clear gel-coat, catalyst and thinner to a plate glass mold whose casting surface has been prepared to have a greater degree of polish and smoothness than originally existing, allowing the applied layer to cure, applying a layer constituting a uniform mixture of clear gel-coat, catalyst and thinner to which colored metal flake has been added in quantity depending upon the color desired in terms of hue, value and intensity, allowing same to cure and successively applying shock-resistant, flexible, polyester resin alternating with layers of glass fiber matting. Discloses the method of installing a swimming pool in an excavated hole comprising the steps of disposing 103 vertically in the excavation, to define the pool perimeter, a plurality of pool panels having integral bottom angles or concrete locks on the front sides of the pool panels and vertical reinforcing guide sleeves on the rear sides of the pool panels, joining together the pool panEls in side-by-side, watertight relationship, driving into the ground stakes or concrete reinforcing rods through the bottom angles and guide sleeves, disposing in the excavated hole, at the pool panel joints, jack posts operatively connected to jack posts screws, operatively connecting the jack post screws to the pool panel joints and raising the pool panels, forming the pool bottom by pouring cement mixture to a depth sufficient to imbed the lower portions of the pool panels, the bottom angles and stakes, and for strength , removing the jack posts and screws, disposing the short legs of L-shaped coping reinforcing rods in the vertical guide sleeves and disposing the long legs thereof outwardly, backfilling the region of the excavated hole to the rear of the pool panels, joining in fixed relationship coping perimeter concrete reinforcing rods to the long legs of the L-shaped rods, forming the coping by pouring cement mixture to a depth for strength and sufficient to imbed the long legs and coping perimeter reinforcing rods.

Inventors

• 👤 E Chichester

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