Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Specified terranean relationship – Open top – embedded container – tank – or reservoir
Patent
1973-06-25
1977-02-15
Ridgill, Jr., James L.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Specified terranean relationship
Open top, embedded container, tank, or reservoir
52300, 417221, E04H 1200, E02D 2700
Patent
active
040075664
ABSTRACT:
The coping is mounted atop the gutter and each is formed of stainless steel, with the top surfaces being sandblasted to prevent slipperiness, particularly when wet. The gutter, which carries water overflowing and draining through slots in the coping, is also used as a form for pouring the concrete walls of the pool. The gutter provides not only check points for transit leveling, but also an upper rear flange for use in leveling the top of the concrete when poured.
The rear of the coping is supported by the gutter, while the depending front wall of the coping is supported by an upwardly extending front wall of the gutter, at an outward offset of each, through a series of special, fine adjustment connecting devices. The upstanding front nose of the coping determines the level at which water will overflow, while the various sections of the coping may be adjusted through the fine adjustment devices, to correspond with the water level, thereby providing a highly accurate level setting for the rim. The sections of the gutter are abutted and attached together to provide greater solidity, but the sections of the coping are spaced apart to provide slots through which a small amount of water may flow continuously, so that the gutter will never run dry and require repriming of the pumps. Both the coping and the gutter are reinforced by transverse braces on the underside of the coping and within the gutter, as well as on the underside of the gutter. In addition, a series of hooks are attached to the underside of the gutter, for embedment in the concrete. A drain pipe, at one or more positions and with a surge preventing baffle above its opening, as well as an overflow pipe which extends upwardly to a point at or above the top of the upper transverse brace of the gutter, are connected to piping which leads to the return flow pump and a drain, respectively, before the concrete is poured.
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Lowe Frank C.
Ridgill, Jr. James L.
Stainless Equipment Company
Van Valkenburgh Horace B.
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