Patent ID: 6487734
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
A removable pool cover assembly for supporting a pool cover above a swimming pool having a sidewall, a railing mounted on the sidewall, and the railing having an inner lip, the pool cover assembly, comprising:a plurality of pool cover support members for removable mounting to the railing and each pool cover support member including: a platform portion for placement onto the railing so that the platform portion is disposed perpendicular to the sidewall; a hook integrally formed from the platform portion and extending downwardly therefrom; the hook having a distal, curvilinear end for engaging the inner lip of the railing; a socket member extending upwardly from, and at an acute angle to, the platform portion, and the socket member including an upwardly opening cavity; a ring attached to the platform portion adjacent the hook; and, a plurality of flexible pool cover supporting poles with each pole having opposed socket insertion ends so that the socket insertion ends of each pole can be slidably inserted into the cavities of socket members of each respective pair of pool cover support members mounted opposite to one another on the sidewall thereby permitting the poles to span the swimming pool in order to form a cambered framework there over so that the pool cover can be disposed on the cambered framework for covering the swimming pool.