Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
  • E04B7/00—Roofs; Roof construction with regard to insulation
  • E04B7/16—Roof structures with movable roof parts
  • E04B7/166—Roof structures with movable roof parts characterised by a translation movement of the movable roof part, with or without additional movements
• • 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 present invention relates to a structure and a device intended for covering a coverable or discoverable volume, depending on non-use or use, the latter not being permanent.
• It can be, for example, a swimming pool, a downhill garage or any type of pit.
• the volume in which they are registered represents a dead volume, hence a floor area lost and unusable when the pool is not used, the garage descent, the pit, etc. .
• a cover offers many other advantages. Indeed, a second important advantage concerns the energy saving achievable by avoiding the evaporation of water and by isolating the body of water from cold air, in particular at night, it is possible to reduce d '' about 25% of the heat losses. Moreover, even without heating a blanket limits night losses and keeps the calories accumulated during the day.
• Another advantage lies, for certain covers, in being able to protect against falling children or animals.
• a number of types of pool cover are known.
• covers consisting of roller shutters made from rigid panels or strips hinged together so as to allow them to be wound on a manual or motorized reel.
• Modular elements are also known which cover the swimming pool like a roof. and juxtaposing each other during assembly, but, if their solidity is indisputable, their installation is long and requires two people.
• the object of the present invention is to remedy these drawbacks by proposing a cover which reconsembles the natural environment of the original site as a closure, by making the presence of the swimming pool ignored. down the garage, or others, and allowing the opening to retract fully under an area adjoining the discoverable volume.
• the invention relates to a structure intended to cover a discoverable volume, charac ⁇ terized in that it comprises a plate, movable in translation in a frame comprising on the one hand a part corresponding substantially to an area discoverable volume, and on the other hand a part, extending the first inside a box in which is likely to retract the tray, like a drawer, when using said volume.
• the frame is embedded in a ground in such a way that the plane of its upper face merges with the plane of said ground in terms of its part corresponding to the discoverable area of the volume.
• the upper plane of the plate, the plane of the upper face of the frame and the upper plane of the box are substantially merged.
• the box is delimited at its upper part by a vault arranged in a jumper on vertical walls of the part of the frame which it covers and at its lower part by horizontal walls of said part of said frame.
• the box is produced under a natural or artificial mound connecting to the ground surrounding the volume.
• the vault is a reinforced masonry slab supported by the frame, the height of which corresponds substantially to that of the plate.
• the upper surface of the plate and the surrounding soil are made of an identical material, confusing them.
• the plate is a hollow rectangular parallelepiped forming a container, subsequently filled with soil to be level with the surrounding soil and grassed in the same way as the latter.
• the plate is a hollow parallelepiped, forming a tray subsequently receiving a coating so as to be level with the surrounding surface, coated identically.
• the invention also relates to a device for the implementation of a cover of a discoverable volume in a structure as mentioned above, characterized in that the tray forming a tray is produced on a rectangular and rigid frame to form a mobile assembly. the total height of which corresponds substantially to the height of the frame in which it is housed and is capable of being driven in translation by drive means cooperating with sliding means of said mobile assembly, relative to the fixed frame.
• Figure 1 is a perspective view of a swimming pool equipped with a cover device according to the invention.
• Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view along line II II of Figure 1;
• Figure 3 is a partial cross-sectional view along the broken line III III of Figure 2, shown on a larger scale.
• a description will be given below of a swimming pool cover.
• the present invention applies to all models of swimming pool, that is to say, tranditional in reinforced concrete, rigid prefabricated (metallic or polyester), or comprising a metallic framework in which comes to rest a waterproof envelope or "liner" containing the body of water.
• the swimming pool 1 is a traditional reinforced concrete swimming pool, buried. Of course, it could be of another type.
• a structure 3 comprising a plate 2, constituting a cover, movable in translation in one direction or the other above the pool 1 in the direction of the arrows FI and F2.
• the translation of the plate 2 takes place in a frame 4 comprising on the one hand a discoverable part 4a corresponding substantially to the area of the pool 1 to be protected when not in use, and on the other hand a part 4b, extending the first 4a.
• This part 4b extends part 4a inside a fixed box 5 in which the tray 2 is capable of being retracted, in the manner of a drawer, when using the swimming pool 1.
• the box 5 is delimited at its upper part 5a by a vault 5 £ of reinforced concrete arranged in a jumper on vertical walls 4d of the part 4b of the frame 4 which it covers.
• the box 5 is delimited at its lower part 5 d by horizontal walls 4e of said part 4b of said frame 4.
• the height of the box 5 corresponds substantially to the height Hl of the plate 2 so as to allow it to slide.
• Said box 5 is obtained by formwork during the same concrete pouring operation with the side walls 8 and the bottom 9 of the pool.
• the frame 4 in its discoverable part 4a, is here also obtained by shuttering with the side walls 8 of the swimming pool. In its covered part 4b it therefore constitutes the support of the vault 5c of the box 5 as described above.
• the frame 4 In its visible part 4a, the frame 4 is embedded in an earth floor 10 so that the plane of its upper face 4c merges with the ground plane.
• the box 5 is made under a natural or artificial mound of earth 11, connecting on the sides to the earth constituting the ground 10. Of course the box 5 is made in the open air and the earth is then replaced on its external face 5b.
• the plate 2 is a hollow rectangular parallelepiped whose four lateral faces 2b and the bottom 2 £ form a container filled with soil 12 so as to be level with the surrounding soil 10.
• the soil 10 and the soil 12 for filling the tank will be grassed in the same way in order to merge when the pool is covered.
• the mound 11 will also be sodded to connect to the surrounding soil 10 of the swimming pool 1.
• the soil 10 is a paved terrace
• the earth of the tank will be replaced by the same slabs as the terrace.
• the plate 2 forming tray is formed integrally with a rectangular frame 13 and rigid to form a moving assembly including the overall height Hl substantially corresponds to the height H2 of the frame 4 wherein it log ' e with a minimum clearance "J".
• the frame 13 is obtained for example, by assembling steel beams 14, 15. I-shaped, respectively perpendicular to each other.
• the frame 13 then receives a sheet of stainless steel sheet, intended to constitute the bottom 2c of the plate 2 forming a tank, while its underside directed towards the water level of the swimming pool 1 is covered with an insulating material 16 suitable avoid heat loss at night, when the pool is covered.
• the mobile assembly 2-13 thus formed is capable of being driven in translation by drive means cooperating with sliding means of said assembly relative to the fixed frame 4.
• the means of translational drive of the mobile assembly 2-13 of cover are constituted by a gear motor 17 forming a fixed winch arranged at a rear end of the box 5 and by a pulley 18 also fixed arranged at the front part of the same box 5, the winch 17 and the pulley 18 being interconnected by at least one cable 19 stretched and closed on itself, integral with the rear part of the chassis 13 and capable of moving in a longitudinal direction or in the other F1, F2, consequently driving the mobile assembly 2 -13 with him.
• the sliding means consist of two longitudinal parallel rails 20, 21 arranged on either side of the frame 4, on its horizontal walls 4th and on which roll rolling elements 22 disposed under the chassis 13 of the mobile assembly 2 -13.
• Each rolling element is constituted by two wheels 23, 24 arranged symmetrically with respect to a vertical axis XX 'forming between them an angle _> of 90 ° and which roll on a rail 20, 21 of cylindrical section, by contact in a groove corresponding peripheral 25, said wheels 23,24.
• the wheels 23, 24 of the rolling elements are fixedly mounted on a support 26, itself capable of sliding freely transversely and longitudinally, in a slide 27 secured to the chassis 13 of the mobile cover assembly 2-13.
• the device for covering a swimming pool described above is only an illustrative example of application of the invention which can be extended to many other fields, such as the covers of garage descents. , stair hoppers, pits and generally any surface that cannot be used intermittently, so as to make them usable outside their primary function.
• the above-mentioned mobile assembly 2-13 can advantageously replace the garage door itself, thus becoming horizontal rather than vertical.

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