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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 1989
Filed:
May. 24, 1988
Michael G Smith, Pleasant Hill, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A water-cooled lounging pad having circular top and bottom sheets of flexible plastic material to be lain upon by a person obtaining a suntan, a heat seal joining the top and bottom sheets at their peripheries to form a flattened circular waterproof closure capable of retaining a body of water therein, and valve means in one of the sheets formed for slectively admitting a desired quantity of water into the enclosure and for retaining the body of water in the enclosure and for discharging desired quantities of water from the enclosure, the diameter of the pad is 7 feet 6 inches and it is 10 to 15 inches high at the center. The material is white ultraviolet-stablized vinyl sheet of 20 mil thickness substantially opaque to sunlight. The method provides a circular peripheral seal from a fixed work station by supporting the vinyl sheets on a table rotatable about a central axis.