WO2011128860A4 - Cleaning of swimming pools - Google Patents
Cleaning of swimming pools Download PDFInfo
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- WO2011128860A4 WO2011128860A4 PCT/IB2011/051602 IB2011051602W WO2011128860A4 WO 2011128860 A4 WO2011128860 A4 WO 2011128860A4 IB 2011051602 W IB2011051602 W IB 2011051602W WO 2011128860 A4 WO2011128860 A4 WO 2011128860A4
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- WO
- WIPO (PCT)
- Prior art keywords
- conduit
- receptacle
- nozzle
- flow
- pool cleaner
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Classifications
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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
- E04H4/12—Devices or arrangements for circulating water, i.e. devices for removal of polluted water, cleaning baths or for water treatment
- E04H4/1209—Treatment of water for swimming pools
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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
- E04H4/16—Parts, details or accessories not otherwise provided for specially adapted for cleaning
- E04H4/1681—Cleaning whips
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- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Architecture (AREA)
- Civil Engineering (AREA)
- Structural Engineering (AREA)
- Water Supply & Treatment (AREA)
- Cleaning In General (AREA)
- Cleaning By Liquid Or Steam (AREA)
- Nozzles For Electric Vacuum Cleaners (AREA)
- Devices For Medical Bathing And Washing (AREA)
Abstract
The invention relates to a swimming pool cleaner. The swimming pool cleaner comprises a pool cleaner body comprising a conduit with an inlet end and an outlet end. The conduit defines a flow path through the body. The body is connectable to a water source from which a water stream can be directed through the conduit. The swimming pool cleaner further comprises a receptacle which is connected to the body and has an inlet opening outside the conduit. The inlet opening of the receptacle is directed or faces in an operatively upstream direction towards the inlet end of the conduit. The receptacle defines a receptacle pocket for receiving solid material which enters the inlet opening of the receptacle.
Claims
1. A swimming pool cleaner, which comprises
a pool cleaner body comprising a conduit with an inlet end and an outlet end and which defines a flow path through the body, the body being connectable to a water source from which a water stream can be directed through the conduit;
a receptacle connected to the body and having an inlet opening outside the conduit, the inlet opening being directed or facing in an operatively upstream direction towards the inlet end of the conduit, and the receptacle defining a receptacle pocket for receiving solid material which enters the inlet opening of the receptacle; and
an outlet nozzle that is provided at the outlet end of the conduit, the nozzle defining a nozzle conduit therethrough which is in communication with the flow conduit defined by the body, at least a portion of the nozzle being pivotally displaceable relative to the body such that at least a portion of the nozzle conduit is also displaceable relative to the flow conduit of the body in a substantially pivotal fashion, with the nozzle having flow dispersing formations which are arranged in a flow dispersing flow channel provided at least partially about and externally to an external periphery of at least a portion of the nozzle conduit such that pivotal displacement of the nozzle brings the dispersing flow channel and thus the flow dispersing formations into flow communication with the flow conduit.
2. The swimming pool cleaner according to Claim 1 , wherein the receptacle is mounted to the body in collar- or sleeve-fashion, such that the receptacle pocket extends, or is defined, radially about the pool cleaner body, with the pocket being directed or extending towards the outlet end.
3. The swimming pool cleaner according to Claim 2, wherein the receptacle surrounds at least a part of the pool cleaner body, with the pool cleaner body projecting into and extending through the pocket.
4. The swimming pool cleaner according to any one of claims 1 to 3 inclusive, wherein the receptacle tapers in cross-section, relative to the flow path of the flow conduit, from an open upstream or inlet end of the receptacle, which defines the inlet opening, towards a downstream end of the receptacle, such that the downstream end of the receptacle substantially closes about the body.
5. The swimming pool cleaner according to Claim 4, wherein the receptacle is mounted to the body by means of a receptacle mounting which comprises at least an upstream element and a downstream element, to which elements the upstream and downstream ends of the receptacle are respectively mounted, with the upstream element defining the upstream inlet opening of the receptacle and with the downstream element defining at least part of the downstream closed end of the receptacle.
6. The swimming pool cleaner according to any one of claims 1 to 5 inclusive, wherein the receptacle is, at least in part, of a porous or foraminous material so that water is able to pass through the receptacle, with oversized solid material, which may be suspended or carried in the water which passes though the receptacle, being retained in the receptacle in sieve-fashion.
7. The swimming pool cleaner according to Claim 1 , wherein the outlet nozzle has an upstream portion and a downstream portion which respectively define an upstream nozzle conduit portion and a downstream nozzle conduit portion, with the upstream nozzle portion being connected to the body and the downstream nozzle portion being pivotably connected to the upstream portion.
8. The swimming pool cleaner according to Claim 1 , wherein the nozzle has a flow regulating element which is adjustable to adjust the flow rate at which water exits the nozzle.
9. A swimming pool cleaning kit, which includes
a pool cleaner body comprising a conduit with an inlet end and an outlet end and which defines a flow path through the body, the body being connectable to a water source from which a water stream can be directed through the conduit;
a receptacle which defines a receptacle pocket for receiving solid material therein, the receptacle being connectable to the body such that an inlet opening thereof is provided outside the conduit and is directed or faces in an operatively upstream direction towards the inlet end of the conduit; and
an outlet nozzle that is mountable to the outlet end of the conduit, the nozzle defining a nozzle conduit therethrough which is, when mounted to the outlet end of the conduit, in communication with the flow conduit defined by the body, with at least a portion of the nozzle being pivotally displaceable relative to the body such that at least a portion of the nozzle conduit is also displaceable relative to the flow conduit of the body in a substantially pivotal fashion, the nozzle having flow dispersing formations which are arranged in a flow dispersing flow channel provided at least partially about and externally to an external periphery of at least a portion of the nozzle conduit such that pivotal displacement of the nozzle brings the dispersing flow channel and thus the flow dispersing formations into flow communication with the flow conduit.
Priority Applications (3)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| AU2011241883A AU2011241883B2 (en) | 2010-04-13 | 2011-04-13 | Cleaning of swimming pools |
| US13/641,295 US20130193043A1 (en) | 2010-04-13 | 2011-04-13 | Cleaning of swimming pools |
| ZA2012/08537A ZA201208537B (en) | 2010-04-13 | 2012-11-13 | Cleaning of swimming pools |
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| ZA201002571 | 2010-04-13 | ||
| ZA2010/02571 | 2010-04-13 |
Publications (3)
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| WO2011128860A2 WO2011128860A2 (en) | 2011-10-20 |
| WO2011128860A3 WO2011128860A3 (en) | 2012-03-22 |
| WO2011128860A4 true WO2011128860A4 (en) | 2012-05-31 |
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| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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| PCT/IB2011/051602 WO2011128860A2 (en) | 2010-04-13 | 2011-04-13 | Cleaning of swimming pools |
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| US (1) | US20130193043A1 (en) |
| AU (1) | AU2011241883B2 (en) |
| WO (1) | WO2011128860A2 (en) |
| ZA (1) | ZA201208537B (en) |
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| EP0329472B1 (en) * | 1988-02-18 | 1991-11-06 | OAKLEIGH LIMITED (a Gibraltar company) | A device for cleaning a swimming pool |
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| US6786429B2 (en) * | 2002-12-20 | 2004-09-07 | Globe Union Industrial Corp. | Spout converter |
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- 2011-04-13 AU AU2011241883A patent/AU2011241883B2/en not_active Ceased
- 2011-04-13 US US13/641,295 patent/US20130193043A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 2011-04-13 WO PCT/IB2011/051602 patent/WO2011128860A2/en active Application Filing
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| Publication number | Publication date |
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| WO2011128860A2 (en) | 2011-10-20 |
| US20130193043A1 (en) | 2013-08-01 |
| AU2011241883A1 (en) | 2012-12-06 |
| AU2011241883B2 (en) | 2015-12-24 |
| ZA201208537B (en) | 2013-09-25 |
| WO2011128860A3 (en) | 2012-03-22 |
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