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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2014
Latham Pool Products, Inc., Latham, NY (US);
Ronald Leon Johnson, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Simas Escobar, San Jose, CA (US);
Yugen Patrick Lockhart, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kevin Losee, Payson, UT (US);
John Patton, Lehi, UT (US);
Latham Pool Products, Inc., Latham, NY (US);
Abstract
An automatically deployed water removal apparatus for use with a solid, flexible swimming pool cover to remove rainwater caught by the cover. In one embodiment, a head with a water inlet pivots from a stored position along the edge of a pool to a deployed position near the center of a deployed cover as the cover advances to its deployed, pool-covering position. In another embodiment, a water inlet is attached to and positioned in part by a tether cord that may be reeled out during cover deployment and reeled in during retraction of the cover.