EP0028953A1 - Wassertrog oder Sandkiste - Google Patents

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EP0028953A1
EP0028953A1 EP80401496A EP80401496A EP0028953A1 EP 0028953 A1 EP0028953 A1 EP 0028953A1 EP 80401496 A EP80401496 A EP 80401496A EP 80401496 A EP80401496 A EP 80401496A EP 0028953 A1 EP0028953 A1 EP 0028953A1
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    • 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
    • E04H4/14—Parts, details or accessories not otherwise provided for

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  • the present invention relates to a water or sand tray intended more particularly for educational and recreational activities for young children.
  • peripheral crown forming said safety zone but also a work surface making it possible to deposit various objects, such as toys, did not prevent that water or sand, extracted from the tank during the handling of said objects, progressively covers this crown and does not fall outside the tank, with the associated drawbacks of smearing and then cleaning.
  • the present invention specifically relates to a water or sand tank of the type comprising edges inclined inward and further having means for removably supporting various structures in the vicinity of the surface of the product stored in the tank , at a distance from the edges of the tank, thus allowing greater flexibility in the possibilities of configuration and use of the tank, without cluttering up the edges of the tank by lateral fixing means, and thereby sparing the periphery in particular, when it is filled with water, a free access area without obstacles.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a container of this type shaped so as to have improved rigidity and hold.
  • the water or sand tank of the type comprising a tank body having a bottom and side walls extended by edges inclined towards the inside of the tank body, comprises at at least one independent support element capable of being positioned in abutment on the bottom to support at least one removable structure in the vicinity of the surface of the product stored in the tank.
  • the support element is produced by stacking a plurality of raising elements, the bottom of the tank having locally mounting means cooperating with means corresponding to the end of a support elements to allow the removable mounting of the latter in the tray.
  • the container according to the present invention comprises a container proper, consisting of a container body 1, advantageously made in one piece, made of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), resting on two panels side 2, 2 'forming a base and braced by tubes 3.
  • the tank body 1 comprises a bottom 4, and side walls 5, vertical, extended by edges 6 inclined towards the inside of the tank, and connecting continuously to the side walls 5, these edges 6 advantageously being provided with stiffening ribs 7.
  • FIG. 1 a plate or shelf 8, forming a work surface, supported by a support element 9 so as to extend above the surface 10- of the product stored in the tray, away from the edge neighbor 6.
  • This tablet 8 is found on the left side of the section in FIG. 2.
  • the support element of the shelf 8 consists of a stack of elevation elements 11 in the form of a truncated cone or cup, made of plastic material and stackable to form a stack of variable height according to the dimensions and the number of the elements 11.
  • the bottom 4 of the tank body 1 has locally frustoconical protrusions 12 extending towards the inside of the tank, of shapes and dimensions substantially corresponding to the elevating elements 11.
  • At least some of the raising elements are advantageously provided, at their end of larger diameter, with a radial flange 16, pierced with orifices 17, as shown in the assembly of the central part of FIG. 2, in order to d '' authorize head-to-tail stacking, as shown in this central part of Figure 2, where conversely, an upper frusto-conical element, such as that referenced 110 in Figure 2, which can serve as an annex container partially immersed in the bin, for example for the storage of small floating objects.
  • frustoconical rising elements 11 'devoid of radial flange can advantageously be provided with longitudinal slots 18, allowing, by elastic deformation, a more pronounced flaring of the large diameter portion of the element tron conical and thus modulate the insertion of the rising elements into each other, to make them particularly difficult to dismantle by children, and to achieve, as shown in Figure 3, using the same determined number of elements stacked, levels, emerging or submerged, different from the upper element, allowing the mounting of inclined plates 8 'forming a slide, the latter being advantageously made of a semi-flexible plastic.
  • the bottom 4 of the tank body is formed with cylindrical or prismatic hollow recesses for receiving, with fitting, pins of corresponding shape 20, formed on one face of an elevating element 111 of cylindrical or prismatic shape, the other face of the raising element 111 having a recess corresponding to the recess 19 for receiving the stud of another raising element and thus promoting their stacking.
  • the lifting elements such as those marked 112 and 113, can be made of a magnetic material in the form of magnetic disks which can be stacked coherently on each other, to support , for example, an upper structure 114, of any given shape or size.
  • FIG. 2 make it possible to distribute as best as possible over the free surface of the tank various removable structures 8, 110 or 114 emerging, flush with the surface 10 or immersed, by multiplying as required the possibilities, all keeping free the peripheral zone of the surface 10 of the exposed product stored in the tank in the vicinity of the walls 5 and the edges 6, by allowing in particular a child going around the tank, to propel by hand a small boat or an object floating without colliding with structures extending from the edge towards the inside of the tank which it could not bypass towards the inside of the tank precisely because of the width of the guard rails formed by the wings of the inclined edges 6.
  • This arrangement also allows a teacher to store out of reach of children objects on a removable structure located in the center of the tray.
  • FIG 4 a top view of the bottom 4 of the tray 1 according to the present invention.
  • This bottom which can be flat or slightly curved, is normally slightly inclined towards an opening or discharge plug 21.
  • the hollow or raised formations 12 of the bottom of the tank allowing the mounting of the rising elements, achieve a certain stiffening - from the bottom of the tank, but which is however not sufficient for large capacity tanks. Ribbing both transversely and longitudinally of the bottom would have the drawbacks of retaining in the corresponding grooves certain quantities of the product stored in the tank, thus preventing perfect emptying of the latter.
  • the bottom of the tank has alternating series of ribs 22 and 22 ', projecting towards the inside of the tank, each rib extending over a portion of the width of the bottom alternately from one of the two facing side walls of the tray defining this lar ⁇ geur.
  • these ribs 22 or 22 ' have a cross section substantially in the shape of an inverted V and decreasing in height from the side wall from which they extend.
  • the support elements can be pre-associated with several for a multi-point mounting on the raised or recessed formations of the bottom of the tank, for example, to produce tripod structures, the lower raising elements, such as the element 111, which can be left permanently in the bottom of the tank, for example by hard fitting, to allow easier stacking of only the upper elements when the tank is already filled with water.

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EP80401496A 1979-11-07 1980-10-21 Wassertrog oder Sandkiste Expired EP0028953B1 (de)

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FR7927501 1979-11-07
FR7927501A FR2469188A1 (fr) 1979-11-07 1979-11-07 Bac a eau ou a sable

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FR2685877A1 (fr) * 1992-01-08 1993-07-09 Barde Yvon Rochers mobiles pour loisirs et sports d'eau vive.
US5572750A (en) * 1995-04-05 1996-11-12 Johnston; Thomas M. Table and chair pool
US6298501B1 (en) * 1998-12-31 2001-10-09 Linda M. Beichner Bathing structure table and associated method

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US5585123A (en) * 1996-04-10 1996-12-17 Busby; Philip J. Sculpting tool
US5895304A (en) * 1996-10-10 1999-04-20 Dixon; Marc Toy constructor kit for sand structures
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US7601069B2 (en) * 2006-10-17 2009-10-13 Christopher Freres Sandbox formed from interlocking panels
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US2580942A (en) * 1950-04-14 1952-01-01 Murad B Bill Portable wading pool
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US3619823A (en) * 1969-10-09 1971-11-16 Alma R Sackett Baby shower-bath and play tub
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US2580942A (en) * 1950-04-14 1952-01-01 Murad B Bill Portable wading pool
US3488782A (en) * 1969-07-31 1970-01-13 Bilnor Corp Swimming pool construction and adjunct
US3619823A (en) * 1969-10-09 1971-11-16 Alma R Sackett Baby shower-bath and play tub
US3823426A (en) * 1972-08-17 1974-07-16 W Mitchko Rapid assembly combination sandbox and pool

Cited By (3)

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FR2685877A1 (fr) * 1992-01-08 1993-07-09 Barde Yvon Rochers mobiles pour loisirs et sports d'eau vive.
US5572750A (en) * 1995-04-05 1996-11-12 Johnston; Thomas M. Table and chair pool
US6298501B1 (en) * 1998-12-31 2001-10-09 Linda M. Beichner Bathing structure table and associated method

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FR2469188B1 (de) 1983-08-26
DE3066626D1 (en) 1984-03-22
ES262524U (es) 1982-06-16
US4346885A (en) 1982-08-31
FR2469188A1 (fr) 1981-05-22
EP0028953B1 (de) 1984-02-15

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