Gutter system

Abstract

Abstract A gutter system is described for use around the perimeter of a swimming pool for skimming the surface water of the pool, and for returning clean water to the pool, which includes an open box like gutter body, made in two vertical halves with a cover plate detachably connecting the vertical halves at the top and a vertical lip extending from each gutter half at the bottom abutting and connected together by bolts. The gutter halves are formed in sections of uniform length which each have an overlapping portion at one end for telescoping engagement with the adjacent gutter length, and with brackets adjacent the ends of the gutter sections with bolts therethrough to hold the sections together. The gutter halves are bolted at the bottom to adjustable anchoring and support brackets fastened to the pool wall. The meeting points of the front and rear gutter sections may be staggered so that the front and back seams are not at the same location. The gutter sections at the corners of the pool are detachably engaged by bolts with four sided open boxes which boxes may have pairs of opposite walls perpendicular to or angularly related to each other to accommodate the desired shape of the finished pool wall. A return water or header pipe is located inside the gutter body with fittings attached thereto, and with one portion of each fitting detachably fastened to nipples, which may be welded to the front wall of the front gutter half and to the bottom wall at an upward inclination to the bottom wall, providing for passage of clean water into the pool through the front wall of the gutter.

Inventors

• 👤 William A. van den Broek

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