Liquid purification or separation – Filter – Handled
Reexamination Certificate
1999-05-20
2001-04-03
Walker, W. L. (Department: 1723)
Liquid purification or separation
Filter
Handled
C210S464000, C210S465000, C209S418000, C015S001700
Reexamination Certificate
active
06209729
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to pool cleaning devices and more particularly pertains to a new pool scoop for providing a rigid scoop for lifting items off of the bottom of a pool.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of pool cleaning devices is known in the prior art. More specifically, pool cleaning devices heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,176,419; 5,473,786; 4,225,437; 4,749,478; U.S. Pat. Nos. Des. 253,158; and 318,350.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new pool scoop. The inventive device includes a pole with tubular attachment sleeve at a distal end of the pole. A scoop member is provided having a bottom wall, a pair of spaced apart side walls upwardly extending from the bottom wall, and an end wall upwardly extending from the bottom wall between the side walls. The scoop member has a front edge extending along the bottom wall between the side walls opposite the end wall. The bottom wall also has a plurality of apertures of a predetermined size therethrough. An extent extends from the end wall of the scoop member and is inserted into a second end of the attachment sleeve.
In these respects, the pool scoop according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a rigid scoop for lifting items off of the bottom of a pool.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of pool cleaning devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new pool scoop construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a rigid scoop for lifting items off of the bottom of a pool.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new pool scoop apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the pool cleaning devices mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new pool scoop which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art pool cleaning devices, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a pole with tubular attachment sleeve at a distal end of the pole. A scoop member is provided having a bottom wall, a pair of spaced apart side walls upwardly extending from the bottom wall, and an end wall upwardly extending from the bottom wall between the side walls. The scoop member has a front edge extending along the bottom wall between the side walls opposite the end wall. The bottom wall also has a plurality of apertures of a predetermined size therethrough. An extent extends from the end wall of the scoop member and is inserted into a second end of the attachment sleeve.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new pool scoop apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the pool cleaning devices mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new pool scoop which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art pool cleaning devices, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new pool scoop which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new pool scoop which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new pool scoop which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such pool scoop economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new pool scoop which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new pool scoop for providing a rigid scoop for lifting items off of the bottom of a pool.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new pool scoop which includes a pole with tubular attachment sleeve at a distal end of the pole. A scoop member is provided having a bottom wall, a pair of spaced apart side walls upwardly extending from the bottom wall, and an end wall upwardly extending from the bottom wall between the side walls. The scoop member has a front edge extending along the bottom wall between the side walls opposite the end wall. The bottom wall also has a plurality of apertures of a predetermined size therethrough. An extent extends from the end wall of the scoop member and is inserted into a second end of the attachment sleeve.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new pool scoop that allows a user to lift keys, pebbles and other small objects off of the bottom of a pool that are otherwise too difficult to remove with a traditional pool cleaning net.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new pool scoop that is easily attachable to standard pool cleaning poles.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying draw
Ocampo Marianne S.
Walker W. L.
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