CN106567564B - Pool device - Google Patents

Abstract

A pool device comprises a pool body, a water inlet, a water outlet and a water discharge valve. The water inlet is used for inputting water into the pool body. The water outlet is used for discharging the water in the water tank body out of the water tank body. The drain valve cover in the outlet, the drain valve has the drainage face, and the water supply is followed the drainage face to a drainage direction leaves the pond body, just the drain valve has a protruding retainer, in order to be opposite to the drainage direction for a protruding distance of drainage face is outstanding, in order to reduce the user is adsorbed the risk of drain valve.

Description

Pool device

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a pool device, and more particularly, to a pool device with water draining and water feeding functions.

Background

Pools have a long history and can provide different functions, for example as a swimming pool or a bath massage. Some tanks are made through fixed structures, such as digging a pit in the ground and making a surrounding water-tight tank surface. Some of the tanks can be temporarily installed, for example, large-sized plastic tarpaulin is used together with the supporting structure to form a tank accommodating structure.

If the water in the pool is not treated for a certain time, no matter the floating objects or other impurities in the air fall into the pool or the water in the pool becomes turbid, the water in the pool may cause odor or even some unnecessary harm to human body.

There are several different approaches to ensure that the water in the basin maintains a certain quality. For example, the pool is drained and fresh water is added. Another rule is to periodically or continuously guide the water in the water tank to a filtering mechanism, filter the water, and then guide the filtered water back to the water tank.

In addition to comfort and convenience of use, safety of use is also a concern for sinks intended for human use.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to make the water pool for people to use safer, the invention notices that a certain suction force can be formed at the water outlet of the water pool, and then the body part of a user can be red and swollen and even drowned in case that the body or clothes are partially adsorbed at the water outlet.

To avoid this problem, the present invention provides several designs of sink devices. For example, one embodiment of the present invention is a sink device including a sink body, a water inlet, a water outlet, and a water drain valve. The pool body is used for carrying water for a user to move in the pool body, such as providing one or more activities of swimming, paddling or bathing and massaging in the pool for the user.

The water inlet is used for inputting water into the pool body. The water outlet is used for discharging the water in the water tank body out of the water tank body. The drain valve cover in the outlet, the drain valve has the drainage face, and the water supply is followed the drainage face to a drainage direction leaves the pond body, just the drain valve has a protruding retainer, in order to be opposite to the drainage direction for a protruding distance of drainage face is outstanding, in order to reduce the user is adsorbed the risk of drain valve.

In practice, there may be many different practices. For example, the drain valve has a body portion to form the drain surface, the protruding stopper is disposed on the body portion, and a bottom surface portion of the protruding stopper overlaps the drain surface. The body portion includes at least one screen portion for draining water from the sink body. Further, the protruding stopper has a protruding portion extending upward from the drainage surface by the protruding distance.

The body portion may comprise a circular configuration and the protrusion distance of the protrusion portion may be greater than 5%, 10%, 20% or other settings depending on the size of the pool, the intended use, and/or the intended drainage path.

The circular structure can be provided with a side surrounding part and a round surface part, and the side surrounding part and the round surface part are provided with a filter screen structure for water to be discharged out of the pool body.

In addition, the protruding portion of the protruding stopper may have a top screen for supplying water to be discharged out of the sump body.

The protruding stopper and the body portion may be designed as an integral unit or as two separable structures. In the latter design, the body portion may have a through-going hole for assembling the protruding stopper.

The protruding baffles may have many different shapes, for example, the protruding portion of the protruding baffle is a dome, cone.

Furthermore, the protruding portion of the protruding stop may also be designed to comprise a support stop. This support shelf may form a compartment that isolates the user from the drain surface by a predetermined distance while maintaining a flow of water through the compartment into the drain surface.

The protruding portion of the protruding stopper is not limited to one, and may be two or more protruding portions.

Further, in some designs, the area of the bottom portion of the protruding baffles is less than the area of the drainage surface. In fact, however, the area of the bottom portion of the protruding stopper may also be larger than the area of the drainage surface. For example, through the structural design, water is discharged out of the pool body through the side screen.

The body portion of the drain valve may have a polygonal structure. Also, the body portion of the drain valve and the protruding stopper may have the same or different geometries.

The sump assembly may further include a filter pump connected to the inlet and the outlet of the sump body to provide a water discharge force such that water is discharged from the sump body through the outlet. The protrusion distance and the drainage force may have a predetermined correspondence. For example, when the filter pump discharges a greater amount of water, the protrusion distance may be maintained at a greater value, or the area of the water discharge surface may be increased, to reduce the risk of a user getting stuck in the water discharge valve.

For example, in a sink for human use, the amount of drainage may be greater than 1000 gallons per hour, or greater than 2000 gallons per hour.

In addition, the pool device further comprises an emergency switch for turning off a filter pump for draining water or turning off a water outlet. The emergency switch may be located in close proximity to the user's hand when the user is stuck to the drain valve.

Drawings

FIG. 1A illustrates an embodiment of a pool device according to the present invention.

FIG. 1B illustrates an embodiment of a pool device according to the present invention.

FIG. 1C illustrates another embodiment of a pool device according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 illustrates the relationship between the water flow of the sump body and the filter pump.

Fig. 3 illustrates why the drain valve installed at the sump body may cause a user's use risk.

Figure 4 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the drain valve according to the present invention.

Fig. 5A illustrates a schematic view of a structure of a water discharge valve according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5B illustrates a schematic view of a discharge valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5C illustrates a schematic view of a structure of a water discharge valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5D illustrates a schematic view of a water discharge valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5E illustrates a schematic view of a structure of a water discharge valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5F illustrates a schematic view of a water discharge valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5G illustrates a schematic view of a water discharge valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5H illustrates a schematic view of a water discharge valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5I illustrates a schematic view of a water discharge valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5J illustrates a schematic view of a water discharge valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5K illustrates a schematic view of a drain valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 5L illustrates a schematic view of a drain valve according to another practical example of the present invention.

Fig. 6A and 6B illustrate the use of the emergency changeover switch.

Fig. 7A, 7B, 7C and 7D illustrate an embodiment of a drain valve.

Fig. 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D and 8E illustrate another embodiment of a drain valve.

Detailed Description

Referring to FIG. 1A, an embodiment of a pool device according to the present invention is illustrated. The pool device has a pool body 11 for holding water, and can provide one or more users with different activities such as bathing, swimming, paddling and the like inside according to different design requirements. To ensure the water quality is clean, a filter pump 13 is provided to discharge water from the tank 13 through a water outlet pipe 132, filter the water through a filter mechanism at the inner end of the filter pump 13, and fill the water into the tank body 11 through a water inlet pipe 131.

Referring to FIG. 1B, a specific embodiment of a pool is illustrated. This sink has a sink body 151. The filter pump 159 is responsible for filtering the water from the basin. In this example, the sink has two drain valves 153, 155. The two drain valves 153 and 155 are partially installed in the sump body 151, and partially installed outside the sump body 151 to be assembled through predetermined holes. In addition, the two drain valves 153, 155 are connected via a line 158 to a filter pump 159 via a one-to-two adapter. In addition, the filter pump 159 injects filtered water into the sump body 151 through the inlet valve 157 to maintain a complete water circulation.

Referring to FIG. 1C, another embodiment of a pool is illustrated. This sink has a sink body 161. The filter pump 169 is responsible for filtering and cleaning the water in the water tank. Unlike the above example, this sink has only one drain valve 163. However, it should be noted that the sink may have more drain or fill valves as required by other design requirements. The drain valve 163 is partially installed in the sump body 161, and partially installed outside the sump body 161 through a predetermined hole. In addition, the drain valve 163 is connected via a line 168 to a filter pump 169 via a two-to-two adapter. In addition, the filter pump 169 injects filtered water into the sump body 161 through the water inlet valve 167 to maintain a complete water circulation.

It should be noted that the relative position and arrangement of the filter pump 13 and the sink body 11 can be different from the illustrated inside, for example, the filter pump can be embedded inside the sink body. In addition, a plurality of filter pumps or a plurality of water inlet pipes and water outlet pipes can be butted with one water tank body. The filter pump may also be used to add other functions, such as warming or cooling the water. The filter pump can be switched on or off statically or dynamically through an intelligent feedback system, or can be switched on and off manually by a user. These various designs should still be considered to be within the scope of the invention.

Furthermore, the basin system may not be equipped with a corresponding filter pump. Even so, during the draining process, a certain suction force may still be created at the drain opening due to the water pressure of the pool, and such suction force may still pose some risk to the user. For example, a pool with water above a certain level or if the pool is used by a child, an elderly person or a person who temporarily loses most of his muscular strength due to physical exertion.

Referring to fig. 2, a flow relationship between the water in the sump body and the filter pump is illustrated. The pool body 21 is used for carrying water for the user to use. The filtration pump 22 is connected to the sump body 21, and takes water from the drain port 211 of the sump body to perform filtration. The filtered water passes through the water inlet 212 and is introduced into the sump body 21. As can be understood from FIG. 2, the place where the risk easily occurs is mainly the position of the drain opening 211 of the sump body.

Referring to fig. 3, it is illustrated why the drain valve installed in the sump body may cause a user's use risk. In this figure, the drain valve 31 is installed to cover the drain opening of the sump body, so that water flows into the filter pump or the outside of the sump through the drain valve. This drain valve 31 may be designed with a plurality of holes so that water can flow into the drain through the filter structure or screen of the holes.

During user activity, a user's body part 32, such as a hand, sole, other body part, or clothing, may be adjacent the drain valve. At this time, since a suction force generated by the discharge of the water flow is generated in the vicinity of the discharge valve, the body part 32 of the user may be caught by such a suction force and the entire user may be caught by the discharge valve 31. As can be seen from fig. 3, the body part 32 of the user is mainly sucked by the upper surface 311 of the drain valve 31. Also, the main reason why the body part 32 of the user is adsorbed is that the upper surface 311 of the drain valve 31 is a flat surface, and the contact area with the body part 32 of the user is considerably large. Even if the side 312 of the drain valve 31 is designed with a screen or hole structure, a certain suction force is generated to the body part 32 of the user when the upper surface 311 of the main drain surface is abutted by the body part 32.

Referring to fig. 4, there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the drain valve according to the present invention. In fig. 4, the drain valve has two parts, a body part 41 and a protruding stopper 43. The body portion 41 is similar to the drain valve of fig. 3, having an upper surface 411 and a side surrounding portion 412. The upper surface 411 and the side surrounding portion 412 may be provided with holes or screens for water to be discharged. In this example, the upper surface is a circular shape having a circular drainage surface corresponding to the lower drainage opening to be covered. The water flows into the drain valve 41 from the upper surface 411 or the side surrounding portion 412, and is discharged into the drain port in the drain direction.

In this example, the protruding stops 43 have a rounded upper surface 432 and a side surround 431. The protruding stoppers protrude upward from the drainage surface corresponding to the upper surface 411 of the body portion in a direction opposite to the drainage direction by a protruding distance. In this example, the protruding distance is the height of the side surrounding portion 431 of the protruding stopper 43. Further, as can be seen from fig. 4, the bottom surface portion of the protruding stopper 43 overlaps the corresponding drainage surface of the upper surface 411 of the body portion 41. In this example, the area of the bottom portion of the protruding stopper 43 is smaller than the area of the drain surface corresponding to the upper surface 411 of the body portion, but the following example will explain that different configurations are possible in alternative designs. The upper surface 432 and the side surrounding portion 431 of the protruding baffles 43 may be provided with holes or screens for water to be discharged.

In the example of figure 4, the body portion 42 does not directly contact the upper surface 411 of the body portion 41 of the drain valve when the user is in use. In contrast, the user's body portion 42 will contact the upper surface 432 of the protruding baffle 43. Since the user's body portion 42 is first caught by the protruding stopper, the user's body portion 42 is kept at a distance from the body portion 41 without directly covering most of the drain portion of the body portion 41. As long as the water flow can be smoothly discharged, an excessive suction force is not generated at the contact position of the body part 42 and the drain valve, so that the occurrence of the use risk can be reduced.

In the implementation, the drain valve can have different designs, all can come the contact mode of control user's health position and drain valve when using the pond, and then reduces the use risk. Several different practical examples are presented below to illustrate different practical possibilities. It must be noted, however, that in addition to these examples, other variants based on the same concept should also be considered to be covered by the scope of this invention.

Referring to fig. 5A, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to an embodiment of the invention is illustrated. The valve has a body portion 52 and a projecting stopper portion 51. As described above, the protruding stoppers 51 partially overlap the body portion and protrude a protruding distance above the water discharge surface of the body portion.

Referring to fig. 5B, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is illustrated. Compared to fig. 5A, the protruding stopper 511 in the water discharge valve of fig. 5B is higher, so that the design is safer or more suitable for stronger water discharge suction. The protruding distance of the protruding stoppers 511 may be designed mainly in consideration of the size of the drainage surface corresponding to the upper surface of the body portion 521. Specifically, when the upper surface of the main body portion is substantially circular, the ratio of the protruding distance to the diameter of the circular shape is higher than 5%, 10%, or 20%.

The parameters actually controlled may be determined according to different drainage suction forces. For example, the drain suction may be up to 1000 gallons per hour, or even up to over 2000 gallons. For stronger suction forces, a relatively higher protrusion distance is provided to ensure lower risk.

In addition to the disk or cylindrical shape of fig. 5A and 5B, the body portion and protruding stop of the drain valve may be designed in a number of different ways.

Referring to fig. 5C, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is illustrated. In this example, the body portion 532 is still disc-shaped, while the protruding baffles 531 are cylinders of smaller diameter.

Referring to fig. 5D, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is illustrated. In this example, the body portion 542 is still disc-shaped, while the protruding barriers 541 are elliptical cones.

Referring to fig. 5E, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is illustrated. In this example, the body portion 552 is still disc-shaped, while the protruding stops 551 are cones.

Referring to fig. 5F, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is shown. In this example, the body portion 562 is still disc-shaped and the projecting barriers 561 are cones with a plateau above.

Referring to fig. 5G, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is illustrated. In this example, the body portion 572 remains in the shape of a disk, and the projecting baffles 571 extend upwardly from the upper surface of the body portion 572 into a cone with a plateau above.

Referring to fig. 5H, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is illustrated. In this example, body portion 582 is substantially 0 a high, and protruding stops 581 extend upward from the upper surface of body portion 582 in a frustoconical shape with a plateau above.

Referring to fig. 5I, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is illustrated. In this example, the protruding stop 591 has a support stop 5911. The support stop 5911 has a plurality of posts supporting a ring and forms a compartment 5912 through which the user is isolated from the drainage surface by a predetermined distance while maintaining a flow of water through the compartment into the drainage surface of the body portion 592.

Referring to fig. 5J, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the present invention is illustrated. In this embodiment, the body portion 5102 remains in the shape of a disk, while the protruding baffle has a plurality of protruding portions 51011, 51012.

Referring to fig. 5K, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is shown. In this embodiment, the body portion 5112 is still disc-shaped, and the bottom area of the protruding baffles 5111 is the upper surface area of the body portion 5112. In this example, although the protruding block 5111 covers the whole of the body portion 5112, if enough holes are provided on the side of the protruding body 5111 and the side of the body portion 5112, certain safety can still be ensured under certain requirements.

Referring to fig. 5L, a schematic diagram of a drain valve according to another embodiment of the invention is illustrated. In this embodiment, the body portion 5122 is a polygonal body, and the protruding stops 5121 remain cylindrical.

In addition to the protruding stop, in some special cases, such as when hairs are caught in the drain opening, an emergency switch may be additionally provided to turn off the filter pump or to turn off the drain passage, thereby making contact with the suction force of the drain.

Referring to fig. 6A and 6B, the use of the emergency switch is illustrated. In FIG. 6A, the emergency knob is provided at a position of the sump body adjacent to the drain opening, for example, at a position where the user can easily touch the emergency knob for operation when the user is caught. When an accident occurs, the user can operate the emergency switch 61 to change the angle of the valve 63 of the drainage channel 62, close the water flow and immediately reduce the suction force, so as to relieve the dangerous state.

Referring to fig. 7A, 7B, 7C and 7D, the drawings illustrate schematic views of different angles of an embodiment of a drain valve. Fig. 7A includes a front view, a first side view and a second side view of the assembled drain valve. Fig. 7B illustrates a disassembled assembly perspective view of the drain valve. Fig. 7C is a perspective view illustrating a disassembled assembly of the drain valve at a different angle, corresponding to fig. 7B. Fig. 7D illustrates a sectional view of such a discharge valve. As can be understood from the several figures, the protruding baffle of the water discharge valve is formed by directly manufacturing the upper cover on the water discharge surface to form an integrated structure.

Referring to fig. 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D and 8E, the drawings illustrate schematic views of another embodiment of a drain valve with different angles. Fig. 8A includes a front view, a first side view and a second side view of the assembled drain valve. Fig. 8B, 8C and 8D are perspective views illustrating components at different angles after the water discharge valve is disassembled. Fig. 8E illustrates a sectional view of such a water discharge valve. As can be understood from these figures, the protruding stopper of the drain valve protrudes through the hole of the drain surface to provide a protective effect with respect to the previous example.

Many different modifications can be made according to the same principle, and the effects of the invention should be considered to fall within the scope of the invention.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present invention, so that any equivalent variations made in the light of the above description should be considered as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (20)

1. A pool device, comprising:

the water pool body is used for bearing water so that a user can move in the water pool body;

a water inlet for inputting water into the pool body;

a water outlet for discharging the water of the water tank body out of the water tank body; and

the drain valve, cover in the outlet, the drain valve has body part, body part includes the upper surface, the upper surface has the drainage face, the drainage face allows water in the pond body via the drainage face flows into the drain valve leaves along a drainage direction the pond body, just the drain valve has a protruding fender body, in order to be opposite to the drainage direction for a protruding salient distance of drainage face, in order to reduce the user is adsorbed the risk of drain valve.

2. The pool device of claim 1, wherein the raised barrier is positioned on the body portion with a bottom surface partially overlapping the drain surface, the body portion includes at least one screen portion for draining the pool body, and the raised barrier has a projection extending upwardly from the drain surface the projection distance.

3. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the body portion comprises a circular configuration, the protruding distance of the protruding portion being greater than 10% wider relative to the diameter of the circular configuration.

4. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the body portion comprises a circular configuration, the protruding distance of the protruding portion being greater than 5% wider relative to the diameter of the circular configuration.

5. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the body portion comprises a circular configuration, the protruding distance of the protruding portion being greater than 20% wider relative to the diameter of the circular configuration.

6. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the body portion comprises a circular structure having a side surround portion and a rounded portion, the side surround portion and the rounded portion having a screen structure for water to exit the pool body.

7. The sink apparatus of claim 4, wherein the protruding portion of the protruding baffle has a top screen for allowing water to exit the sink body.

8. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the protruding stop is a two piece separable structure from the body portion, the body portion having a hole therethrough for assembly of the protruding stop.

9. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the protruding portion of the protruding catch is a dome structure.

10. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the protruding portion of the protruding stop comprises a cone.

11. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the protruding portion of the protruding stop comprises a support stop frame that forms a separation space that isolates the user from the drain surface by a predetermined distance.

12. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the protruding barrier has a plurality of the protruding portions.

13. The pool apparatus of claim 2, wherein the protruding baffle has a bottom portion area greater than an area of the drain surface.

14. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the body portion is of polygonal configuration.

15. The pool device of claim 2, wherein the body portion and the protruding baffle have different geometries.

16. The pool device of claim 1, further comprising a filter pump coupled to the inlet and outlet ports of the pool body to provide a drainage force such that water is drained from the pool body through the outlet port, the protrusion distance having a predetermined magnitude corresponding to the drainage force.

17. The pool apparatus of claim 14, wherein the drainage force is greater than 1000 gallons per hour.

18. The pool apparatus of claim 14, wherein the drainage capacity is greater than 2000 gallons per hour.

19. A pool device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an emergency switch for switching off a filter pump for draining.

20. The pool device of claim 19, wherein the emergency switch is positioned adjacent the drain valve.

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