Patent ID: 7389551
Filing Date: 2008-06-24
Classification: E04H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A lash for a spa having a lid comprising: an elongate flexible member having opposite first and second ends and including at least two layers of webbing having a cable interleaved between said at least two layers of webbing, a releasably lockable latch mountable on said first end of said flexible member for locking said first end to a corresponding first exterior wall of the spa. an anchor mountable on said second end of said flexile member for irremovably anchoring said second end to a second exterior wall of the spa opposite the first exterior wall of the spa, wherein said anchor includes a channel having opposite first and second ends, said channel having opposite first and second side flanges rigidly mounted to, so as to extend substantially orthogonally from, a base portion and extending between said side flanges at said first end of said channel, an elongate rigid member mountable over said base portion in mating engagement with said side flanges so as to define a web-receiving gap between said rigid member and said base portion sized to snugly receive said second end of said flexible member therethrough, wherein said second end of said channel is adapted for mounting by fasteners to the second exterior wall of the spa and for mounting said second end of said flexible member to the corresponding portion of the second exterior wall of the spa so that, with said second end of said flexible member journalled through said gap and covering said base portion substantially the length of said channel from said gap to and across said second end of said channel, and with said second end of said channel mounted to the second exterior wall of the spa with said second end of said channel above said first end of said channel so that said flexible member may be wrapped upwardly around said rigid member so as to extend substantially vertically from said rigid member across so as to cover said base portion of said second end of said channel thereby occluding and inhibiting access to said base portion of said second end of said channel. whereby the fasteners fastening said second end of said channel and said second end of said flexible member to the second exterior wall of the spa are covered to inhibit access to the fasteners when the flexible member is tensioned over the spa and the lid, said flexible member only long enough to extend from said latch to said anchor when said latch and said anchor are mounted to the first and second exterior walls of the spa respectively and when said flexible member is tensioned over the spa and the lid.