Patent ID: 8402585
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: E04H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In a swimming pool cleaner movable along an underwater pool surface to clean debris therefrom, the pool cleaner including a body having a debris inlet and a debris outlet, the improvement comprising: the body being adapted at the debris outlet for securement of either a water-suction hose connected to a remote suction system or a debris-collection device entrapping debris and passing water therethrough back into the pool; a venturi-line structure secured with respect to the body, the venturi-line structure including a venturi-line inlet adapted for connection of a water-flow line fed by a remote pump and a venturi jet located at the debris inlet to cause accelerated flow substantially thereacross and into the body when the cleaner is used as a pressure cleaner; and the body including a debris-inlet adjuster configured to reduce the debris inlet to adapt the cleaner for use as a suction cleaner, whereby the pool cleaner is interchangeably usable as a suction cleaner and as a pressure cleaner; wherein the venture jet is selectively closeable by a venture-jet cover; wherein the debris-inlet adjuster including the venture-jet cover, thereby to reduce the debris-inlet and at the same tone close the venture jet to facilitate adaption of the cleaner for use as a suction cleaner.