Patent ID: 6408577
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
Steps for a swimming pool that define a recessed front face shaped to form treads, said steps further arranged for connection without discontinuity to other adjacent panels or other elements of a basin of said swimming pool, said steps further having a plurality of ribs on each front end of said recessed front face, said ribs providing additional thickness on the inside of said recessed front face with spacings between adjacent said ribs designed to act as grooves for supporting an internal plasticized fabric or liner, said grooves being capable of accepting a clamping strip for engaging said internal plasticized fabric or liner to said grooves for a seal for watertight fixing of said internal plasticized fabric or liner to said grooves using fixing means in said extra thickness of said ribs, said steps with the ribs being made by a process of injection molding a plastic material.