Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H4/00—Swimming or splash baths or pools
  • E04H4/06—Safety devices; Coverings for baths
  • E04H4/08—Coverings consisting of rigid elements, e.g. coverings composed of separate or connected elements
  • E04H4/086—Sliding covers

Definitions

• the object of the invention relates to the technical sector of complementary equipment for individual or collective swimming pools. Numerous devices are known for covering private or public outdoor swimming pools.
• a basin cover device with two or more panels which are stored and stacked one on the other at rest, in the open air on one side of the basin and which are moved manually. by rollers rolling on offset rails to cover the pool one behind the other.
• the covering device according to the invention overcomes these drawbacks in that it economically and reliably provides a tight, rigid, insulating, aesthetic, highly secure basin cover, easy to maneuver and above all invisible in the open basin position. , and above all very compact, which allows its installation even when there is little space around the basin.
• the covering device consists of a plurality of modular carrying elements stacked in a pit adjoining one of the sides of the basin to be covered and surmounted by a protective and blanket; said load-bearing elements being stored on a lifting lifting platform capable of presenting them successively at the level of guide means integrated into the coping of the basin or rolling on the coping and without contact with water, so that said presented elements are translated one after the other others by a pushing and pulling member in horizontal return, to cover the pelvis.
• the elements carrying the cover of the pelvis are coupled together and with the thrust member and of traction in return when they are translated in one direction or the other, by temporary mechanical or electromechanical means.
• the lifting platform housed in the pit is constituted by a metal frame guided by sliding or rolling in slides integral with the front and rear walls of the pit and maneuvered by one or more double-acting cylinders, or by a motor-chain type transmission.
• the pushing and pulling member in return for the carrier elements presented at the level of the guiding means in translation is constituted by a deformable parallelogram cylinder device temporarily connected to the carrier element to be pushed or pulled. , or by motorized rack.
• Figure 1 is a schematic perspective view illustrating by way of example a rectangular basin with its beaches, equipped with a device according to the invention in the retracted position (exposed basin) in a pit adjoining the basin.
• Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 illustrating the device according to the invention during coverage of the basin.
• Figure 3 is a schematic plan view illustrating the basin and its storage pit for the cover elements shown in the covered basin position.
• Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view taken along line 4-4 of Figure 3, the cover elements covering the basin.
• Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 4, the cover elements being stored in the pit.
• Figure 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 6-6 of Figure 3, of which Figure 7 is a detail view along A on a large scale, showing the guiding in translation of a cover element.
• Figure 8 is a schematic plan and sectional view of the pit equipped with the covering device according to the invention.
• Figure 9 is a sectional view taken along line 9-9 of Figure 8, showing the device according to the invention housed in the pit.
• Figure 10 is a sectional view taken along line 10-10 of Figure 8, showing the device according to the invention housed in the pit.
• Figure 1 1 is a perspective view illustrating a covering element according to l 'invention.
• Figure 12 is a partial sectional view showing two successive cover elements connected together.
• Figure 13 is an enlarged view showing the coupling of the cover elements.
• Figure 14 is a schematic perspective view illustrating an alternative embodiment of the cover device with a carrier element disposed on the basin.
• Figure 15 is a longitudinal sectional view corresponding to Figure 14.
• Figure 16 is a plan view corresponding to Figure 14.
• Figure 17 is a cross-sectional view corresponding to Figure 14.
• Figure 18 is a view is a partial sectional view of a carrier element according to the alternative embodiment.
• Figure 19 is a large-scale sectional view showing the control and the guiding in translation of a carrier element according to the alternative embodiment.
• the basin covering device (B) is completely invisible when it is not in use, that is to say it is entirely housed in a pit (F) established for example along a transverse side of the basin and having substantially the same width as said basin.
• the pit will be approximately 2.5 meters wide and 5 meters long.
• the front (FI) and rear (F2) walls of the pit are equipped with two pairs of vertical slides (1-2) and (3-4) spaced in length to receive sliding or rolling, by any known means, a loading lifting platform (E) which consists of a metal frame (5) composed of 4 lateral uprights (5a), two intermediate uprights (5b) and two low crosspieces (5c). At the top, the uprights of the platform receive a protective and horizontal cover (6) intended to completely seal the pit.
• This surface is advantageously produced in the same way as the pads (P) both in terms of its material and its dimensions ( Figures 1 to 13).
• the surface (6) can be of any kind.
• the protective surface (6) has a profile belt (6a) along three sides to rest on notched edges (F3) of the pit, while the fourth side located above the front wall (FI) of the pit, has a profile (6b) serving as a coping.
• the protective surface is fixed and independent of the lifting platform loading platform forming (16). In this case, it rests on the sides of the pit, leaving a space on the side of the basin for the passage of the load-bearing covering elements.
• the uprights of the lifting platform receive internally profiled rails (7) intended to carry the cover elements (8) of the basin by means of rolling means.
• cover elements (8) of the basin by means of rolling means.
• Each element (8) has rolling rollers (9) near its angles and is constituted in a load-bearing manner with metal belt profiles (8a) intermediate (8b) and in the upper part with a cover panel (8c) which can be made in several ways and, for example in the same material and the same presentation as the tracks.
• the panel is constituted by a laminated triple glazing in the upper part and by an aluminum sheet or equivalent absorber, the whole forming a solar panel, in order to recover the calorific contribution and either heat the basin , or ensure the transfer of calories to a room to be heated, by a heat pump to which an electric heater can be added, as an additional heat source, in case of winter need.
• a waterproof screen (10) of any known type is positioned under the intermediate profiles to collect rainwater and impurities.
• the lifting platform loader (E) with its horizontal loading levels of the cover elements is movable vertically.
• one or more displacement means (11) of the lifting platform are arranged vertically between the bottom of the pit and the framework, for example two double-acting cylinders situated below the low crosspieces (5c).
• the actuation of the jacks drives the lifting platform upwards, with its protective surface (6), therefore also the cover elements (8), the first of which above the stack then arrives at and opposite two profiles. (12) inserted into a groove (B l) of the walls (B2) of the basin, along the longitudinal sides of said basin.
• the profiles (12) can be combined with the pool coping.
• the jack (13) for example, is put into action to bring the first cover element above the basin.
• This member is located behind the pit at the level of translation of the covering elements.
• the jack (13) is brought back, to its initial position to allow the actuation of a step jacks (1 1) bringing the second cover element at the level of the profiles (12) and transferring it to the basin by the jack (13). This operation is repeated until all the cover elements have been transferred to the pool.
• the elevation of the load-bearing elements is obtained by a set of electric motors (17) and chains (18), while the translation of said elements above the pelvis is carried out by a central rack (19) meshing with the output pinion of an electric motor (20).
• rollers (9) of the supporting elements roll directly on the coping or the areas of the basin, which makes it possible to cover variable forms of basins, if care is taken to correctly size the elements.
• cover elements are coupled together and with the pushing and pulling member in return (13) as they are transferred to the basin by mechanical means of the automatic hook type (14) or by electromechanical means of the electromagnet type (15).
• the connection means are deactivated, and said element is replaced in the lifting platform at the last stage on the rails (7), then the jacks (11) or the assembly (17-18) pull down the loader lifting platform with one step, the member (13) or the assembly (19- 20) is again actuated to hang the second element and bring it back to the corresponding stage of the lifting platform; after deactivation of the link, the jacks (11) or the assembly (17-18) again draw the platform one step, and so on until the last covering element.
• the lower part of the pit as well as the rear part and the lateral sides free up an available space to accommodate other equipment such as pump, filtration, which makes it possible to economically concentrate the equipment in a small volume in continuity with the basin. .
• the invisibility of the device is also emphasized when it is housed in a pit covered by a surface of the same nature and at the same level as the beaches of the basin, if necessary; the safety of the device composed of rigid load-bearing elements linked together; impermeability by impurities by total covering of the basin and by the waterproof screen of the covering elements; thermal insulation possible by fitting the roofing elements and its possibilities of energy recovery, in the form of solar panels, and the use of the basin as a thermal reservoir to supply the hot water circuit of the house.

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