Baths – closets – sinks – and spittoons – Pool type – Construction details
Patent
1995-06-07
1997-08-12
Recla, Henry J.
Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons
Pool type
Construction details
137449, 137403, 137434, E04H 412
Patent
active
056552327
ABSTRACT:
A water level control device has connected tubular housings, one serving as a support for a hose connection and the other serving to house a float assembly for operation of a ball valve within the valve housing. An airtight float serves to raise the one extreme of a lever arm when buoyed by sufficient water level admitted through apertures in the float housing. The other extreme of the lever arm includes an upward projection that contacts a ball within the ball valve cavity urged against a lower valve seat by water pressure from a water hose. When the water level in the pool, and thus the float, is lowered, the one lever arm extreme will also be lowered raising the other extreme to cause the projection to lift the ball away from the valve seat and permit water from the hose to enter the pool. A water flooded ballast attached to the float provides a dampening effect so that the ballast and apertured float housing serve to dampen float motion due to surface waves. The valve ball has free movement within the valve cavity such that siphoning from the pool to the water supply is eliminated when the freely positioned ball is seated against the valve inlet thus stopping siphoning action. The device is provided for easy placement into a pool by suspension of the float housing and attached valve housing from an outrigger water supply assembly resting on a pool deck adjacent the pool.
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Eloshway Charles R.
Recla Henry J.
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