FR2883017A1 - Telescopic type swimming pool shelter, has covering sections whose dimensions are adapted so that each section is received in following section, where sections have flat panels, respectively, connected by fixation devices - Google Patents

Abstract

The shelter has concave polygonal covering sections (3-6), where the sections (3-5) are movable in a translation direction relative to a support. The dimensions of the sections are adapted so that the sections (3-5) are received in the sections (4-6), respectively. The sections have rectangular flat panels (8-10), respectively, connected by fixation devices (12-14). The inclination between the adjacent panels is determined by the devices. An independent claim is also included for a telescopic type swimming pool shelter fabrication method.

Description

The present invention relates to a telescopic type swimming pool enclosure and

  a method of producing such a shelter.

  In order to protect the access of a swimming pool for safety reasons, to prevent it being soiled by external elements such as leaves or other dust, or to prevent heat loss, it is known to have a shelter above the pool.

  This type of shelter can eventually create a greenhouse effect promoting the heating of the pool water.

  It is known to make these shelters in one piece, this shelter must then be raised above the pool to reach it. This type of shelter is relatively bulky, and difficult to handle.

  It is also known to use a telescopic shelter, comprising several sections that can slide relative to each other. This type of shelter is described in particular in documents FR 2 781 511.

  Each section generally comprises rolling means for moving in translation in the axis of the pool. Guide rails are generally associated with the rolling means.

  The existing shelters is satisfactory with regard to the functions mentioned above of protection.

  It appears, however, that in the case of telescopic shelters, the manufacture and installation of these shelters is usually carried out on a case-by-case basis, the various elements being mounted on a production site and then transported in the form of complete elements. to the site of the installation.

  The object of the present invention is to provide a telescopic type swimming pool shelter whose assembly and transportation between the manufacturing site and the installation site are facilitated.

  For this purpose, the subject of the present invention is a telescopic type swimming pool enclosure comprising at least two cover sections, at least one of these sections being movable in a direction in translation relative to a fixed support, at least one first section that can be received in a second section, characterized in that the cover sections comprise panels intended to be assembled on the place of installation of the shelter, each panel being equipped with a first part of fixing means intended to to cooperate with a second portion of means for fixing an adjacent panel, the inclination between two adjacent panels being determined by the fixing means thus formed.

  The structure of the shelter thus described is particularly advantageous in order to allow rapid transport and installation, and easy manufacture.

  The set of panels being substantially flattened, transport of the disassembled shelter can be achieved extremely compactly, on a pallet for example.

  It is thus possible to simply perform the assembly, without the tedious screwing steps, which can be performed at the place of production, the panel then being equipped with a first part of fastening means.

  Advantageously, the fixing means further comprise locking means for locking in position the first and second parts of the fixing means.

  According to one embodiment, the first and second parts of the fastening means are constituted by two bodies comprising complementary shaped portions, traversed by at least one housing for the locking means.

  Advantageously, the shelter comprises substantially vertical tympanums closing it at its ends, these tympanums being fixed on the end sections, and comprising panels, and fixed by attachment means by complementary form.

  According to one embodiment, the two bodies are identical.

  Advantageously, each body has at least one protruding portion and at least one housing groove for receiving the projecting portion of another body, the projecting portions having at least one transverse bore.

  According to one embodiment, the locking means consist of at least one rod.

  Advantageously, each protruding portion comprises at least two bores intended to house at least two rods, the position of the drilling holes to define the relative inclination of the panels attached to the body.

  Advantageously, the bodies comprise stops to guide the positioning of the bodies relative to each other.

  According to one embodiment, the panels intended to be in contact with the fixed support are equipped with rolling means and / or sliding relative to the support, received in a housing in the extension of the plane of the panel.

  Advantageously, the panels are substantially planar.

  The subject of the invention is also a method for producing a telescopic pool enclosure, comprising at least two cover sections, at least one of these sections being displaceable in a direction in translation relative to a fixed support, least a first section that can be received in a second section, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: making the manufacture of panels constituting the sections, equipping the panels with a part of fastening means, arranging the panels in stack or in juxtaposition of panels, transport the stack or juxtaposition to the installation site, assemble the adjacent panels, by cooperation between a first portion of fastening means integral with a first panel and a second part of the fixing a second panel.

  Advantageously, the assembly between the first and the second fixing part is achieved by using at least one blocking means.

  Advantageously, the method also comprises the steps of: making panels intended to form end tympanums of the shelter, arranging the panels intended to form the tympanum in the stack or the juxtaposition of panels, to assemble during the installation, the panels intended to form the 30 eardrums of the shelter at the end sections of the shelter, by complementarity of form.

  In any case, the invention will be better understood with the aid of the description which follows, with reference to the appended schematic drawing, representing by way of nonlimiting example, an embodiment of a shelter according to the invention.

  Figure 1 shows a pool cover according to the invention seen in perspective.

  Figure 2 is a front view of the shelter of Figure 1.

  Figure 3 is a perspective view of a fastening device of two panels and fixing pins.

  Figure 4 is a perspective view of a body of a two-panel fastener.

  FIG. 5 is a partial sectional view along VV of FIG. 1. FIG. 6 is a partial sectional view along VI-VI of FIG. 1. FIG. 7 is a partial sectional view along VII-VII of FIG. Figure 8 is a sectional view of a pallet on which were arranged the elements of the shelter, in the disassembled state.

  A telescopic type swimming pool enclosure 2 according to the invention comprises, as shown in FIGS. 1 to 7, a set of cover sections 3, 4, 5, 6.

  In the figures, without limitation, four sections 3, 4, 5, 6 are shown.

  The sections 3, 4, 5, 6 are movable in a direction D in translation and comprise for this purpose rolling means not shown on a fixed support 7, here constituted by the ground around the basin of the pool, this basin n ' being not represented.

  Each section 3, 4, 5, 6 has a substantially polygonal concave shape, the concavity being turned towards the ground.

  The dimensions of the successive sections 3, 4, 5, 6 are increasing and adapted so that each section can receive the preceding section below it and can be received under the next section, by moving the sections in the direction D, to the exception of course the first section 3 and the last section 6 which are not respectively intended to receive a previous section or be received in a next section.

  Each section is symmetrical with respect to a central plane and comprises flat rectangular panels 8, 9, 10, six in number in the example shown in the drawing, each of these panels being connected by one of these edges parallel to the direction of translation D to an adjacent panel by fastening means 12, 13, 14 can be mounted and disassembled quickly.

  At each end intended to be in contact with the ground 7, the section 3, 4, 5, 6 comprises a first panel 8 equipped on its edge with unrepresented rolling means, for which a housing 15 is provided. On the edge opposite to these rolling means, the panel 8 is connected by first fastening means 12 to a second panel 9 which itself is connected by second fastening means 13 to a third central panel 10 of larger size. This third central panel 10 is connected by third attachment means 14 to a central panel symmetrical with respect to a plane A perpendicular to the ground and passing through the axis of attachment.

  The fastening means consist of at least one fixing device 12, 13, 14, each of these devices comprising two identical bodies 16, 17. Each of these two bodies is intended to be integrally fixed on a panel 8, 9, 10 by a first face 18 by fastening means constituted by screws for passing through through cells 19 provided for this purpose in the body 16 , 17. Each body 16, 17 comprises on a second face 20 projecting portions 22 comprising two transverse bores 23, 24, the projecting portions 22 defining between them housing grooves 25, of width substantially equal to that of the parts in protrusion, for the protruding portions 22 of the other body.

  The projecting portions 22 of a body 16, 17 are identical, the bores 23, 24 of these parts being of the same axis B. The two bores are not located at the same height relative to the second face 20. Each part protruding 22 has on its upper surface a profile having two stops 26, 27 at each of the bores, the second stop 27 at the second bore 24 the highest relative to the second face of the body being higher than the first stop at the first bore.

  In order to fix the two bodies 16 and 17, when they are arranged one against the other, the projecting parts 22 of a body entering the housings of the other body, the two bodies are arranged so that the bores 23, 24 of the projections 22 of the two bodies are facing each other.

  In this position, two rods 28 and 29 are respectively introduced into the series of first bores 23, and into the series of second bores 24, constituting a locking means of the fixing device.

  Each of these rods has an end portion 30 whose section decreases to facilitate insertion into the bores 23, 24. In particular, the end portion is tapered in this embodiment.

  Each rod further comprises a knurling 31 at its end opposite to the end portion 30. The function of this knurling is to present a relief for locking in translation of the rod in the bores 23, 24.

  The differences in height, with respect to the second face 20 of the body 16, 17, between the two bores 23, 24, which constitute the points of support between the bodies, defines the angle of orientation between the panels respectively fixed to each of these bodies.

  The first and second fixing devices 12 and 13 are identical, the position of the bores 23, 24 being identical.

  In order to guide the positioning of the bodies 16, 17 with respect to one another for these first two fastening devices 12 and 13, the first abutment comprises an inclined section 32 intended to bear against the bottom of the housing groove, thus giving an appropriate inclination, as shown in FIG.

  The third fasteners 14 comprise bodies identical to the first and second devices 12, 13, with the difference that the drilling of the bores 23, 24 is made at a different height relative to the second face of the body.

  This arrangement makes it possible to give a different inclination between the two central panels 10, with respect to the inclination between the first and the second panel 8, 9 or between the second and the third central panel 9, 10.

  In order to guide the positioning of the bodies 16, 17 with respect to each other for the third fixing devices 14, the second stop 26 comprises a flat part 33 intended to bear against the bottom of the housing groove 25, giving and an appropriate inclination, as shown in Figure 6.

  It should be noted that the production of the bodies 16, 17 can be carried out economically. Indeed, the bodies of a pair forming a fixing device are identical and the only difference between the bodies of the first and the second device 12, 13 on the one hand and third device 14 on the other hand lies in the position of the drilling 23, 24. As a result, all the bodies can be molded identically, a subsequent drilling to differentiate the bodies of the third device 14.

  Each body 16, 17 is attached to one side of a panel 8, 9, 10 at an end housing 34, having an outer side wall 36, 37 and an inner side wall 38, 39, the length of each of these walls being adapted to a determined relative inclination of two adjacent panels and thus also constituting a positioning guide during assembly.

  If the abutments mentioned above allow the positioning guide to be fixed, the mechanical stresses exerted by the panels are supported by the rods 28, 29. For this purpose, a clearance is provided between the stops 26, 27 and the bottom of the housing grooves 25 in the fixing position.

  The constitution of the panels 8, 9, 10 is made in a manner known to those skilled in the art and will not be described here in detail.

  If, in the embodiment, the panels are flat, these panels can also be bent or prestressed.

  On the edges of each panel perpendicular to the translation direction D, the end profiles 40, 42 are fixed, on which end stops 43, 44 are fixed.

  Complementary shape stops 43 and 44 are respectively fixed above and below two panels belonging to two successive sections, in order to limit the relative stroke of these sections, as shown in FIG.

  On their outer side, in the translation direction of the first and the last section, substantially vertical spandrels 45 are fixed to the end profiles by a complementarily shaped connection on a return 46 of the end section 42.

  These tympanums 45 composed of panels 47 and allow to close the shelter at both ends.

  The structure of the shelter thus described is particularly advantageous in order to allow rapid transport and installation, and easy manufacture.

  Indeed, all the panels 8, 9, 10 can be delivered disassembled, each panel being fixed to the body 16, 17 of the fasteners devices 12, 13, 14 appropriate.

  The set of panels being flat, the transport of the disassembled shelter can be achieved extremely compactly, on a pallet 48 for example, by juxtaposing all of these flat elements as shown in FIG. 8, with the panels sections 8, 9, 10, the panels of the eardrums 47, the bearing means 49 directly positioned, spacers 50 to compensate for differences in thickness between the panels of tympanums, narrower, and the stub panels.

  During assembly, it is sufficient to assemble the panels 8, 9, 10 with the fixing rods 28, 29, the inclination between the panels being guided by positioning means constituted by the abutments 26, 27 and the walls of the housings. panel end, and adding the end eardrums by the complementary fit attachment.

  It is thus possible to simply perform the assembly without the tedious screwing steps that can be performed at the production site.

  As is self-evident, the invention is not limited to the preferred embodiment described above, by way of non-limiting examples; on the contrary, it embraces all variants.

Claims (14)

  1. Telescopic type pool enclosure (2) comprising at least two cover sections (3, 4, 5, 6), at least one of these sections (3, 4, 5) being movable in a translational direction with respect to a fixed support (7), at least one first section (3, 4, 5) which can be accommodated in a second section (4, 5, 6), characterized in that the cover sections (3, 4, 5, 6) comprise panels (8, 9, 10) intended to be assembled on the place of installation of the shelter (2), each panel (8, 9, 10) being equipped with a first part of means fastener (16) for cooperating with a second portion of fastening means (17) of an adjacent panel, the inclination between two adjacent panels being determined by the fastening means thus formed (12, 13, 14).   2. Swimming pool enclosure according to claim 1, characterized in that the fastening means (12, 13, 14) further comprise locking means (29, 30) for locking in position the first and second parts (16). , 17) fastening means (12, 13, 14).   3. Swimming pool enclosure according to claim 2, characterized in that the first and second parts of the fastening means (12, 13, 14) are constituted by two bodies (16, 17) comprising parts (22, 25) of shapes. complementary, traversed by at least one housing (23, 24) for the locking means (29, 30).   Swimming pool enclosure according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that it comprises substantially vertical spandrels (45) closing it at its ends, these spandrels being fixed on the end sections (3, 6), and comprising panels (47), and fixed by means of complementary form of fastening means.   Swimming pool enclosure according to one of claims 3 to 4, characterized in that the two bodies (16, 17) are identical.   Swimming pool enclosure according to one of claims 3 to 5, characterized in that each body (16, 17) has at least one projecting portion (22) and at least one housing groove (25) intended to receive the protruding portion (22) of another body (16, 17), the protruding portions (22) having at least one transverse bore (23, 24).   7. Swimming pool enclosure according to one of claims 3 to 6, characterized in that the locking means are constituted by at least one rod (29, 30).   8. Swimming pool enclosure according to one of claims 3 to 7, characterized in that each projecting portion (22) comprises at least two bores (23, 24) for accommodating at least two rods (29, 30), the drilling position of the bores (23, 24) for defining the relative inclination of the panels (8, 9, 10) attached to the bodies (16, 17).   9. Swimming pool enclosure according to one of claims 3 to 7, characterized in that the bodies (16, 17) comprise stops (26, 27) for guiding the positioning of the bodies (16, 17). one compared to the other.   10. Swimming pool enclosure according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the panels (8) intended to be in contact with the fixed support (7) are equipped with rolling means and / or sliding relative to the support , received in a housing (15) in the extension of the plane of the panel (8).   Swimming pool enclosure according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the panels (8, 9, 10) are substantially planar.   12. A method of producing a telescopic pool enclosure, comprising at least two cover sections (3, 4, 5, 6), at least one of these sections (3, 4, 5) being movable in one direction. in translation with respect to a fixed support (7), at least a first section (3, 4, 5) that can be received in a second section (4, 5, 6), characterized in that it comprises the steps of : producing the panels (8, 9, 10) constituting the sections (3, 4, 5, 6), equipping the panels (8, 9, 10) with a part of fastening means (16), arranging the panels (8, 9, 10) in stack or juxtaposition of panels, transport the stack or juxtaposition to the installation site, assemble the adjacent panels (8, 9, 10), by cooperation between a first part fastening means (16) integral with a first panel 35 and a second portion of fastening means (17) of a second panel.   13. The method of claim 12, characterized in that the assembly between the first and the second fixing portion (16, 17) is achieved using at least one locking means (29, 30).   14. Method according to one of claims 12 and 13, characterized in that it also comprises the steps of: making panels (47) intended to form end tympanums (45) of the shelter, arrange the panels (47) intended to form the tympanums in the stack or the juxtaposition of panels (8, 9, 10), to assemble during the installation, the panels (47) intended to form the eardrums of the shelter at the level of end sections (3, 6) of the shelter (2), by complementarity of form.