Patent ID: 8438671
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
1. A pool-deck lid lift system for below-deck troughs housing pool cover systems for pools, comprising in combination: (i) a pool-deck lid with removable modular deck-lid top plates bridging over a below-deck tough housing, having a front, longitudinal seating structure adapted to rest on pool cover elements of a pool cover system, statically supported on top of a below-deck pool sidewall beneath a pool cover element located between the pool and the below-deck housing trough over which the pool cover elements extend from, and retract back into the below-deck housing for covering and uncovering the pool; (ii) an upwardly movable, cantilever bracket structure secured along a longitudinal back wall of the housing trough having a plurality of extending support arms extending across the trough for supporting the longitudinal lid seating structure and the modular deck-lid top plates, and having a plurality of actuator arms extending vertically downward adjacent the back wall of the housing trough, all fastened to a common longitudinal actuator beam; (iii) hydraulic/pneumatic means mechanically coupled between the common longitudinal actuator beam of the cantilever bracket structure and a solid, static inside surface of the housing trough for lifting the front longitudinal seating structure of the pool-deck lid up off the pool cover element between the longitudinal seating structure and the supporting top of the below-deck pool sidewall beneath the pool cover element to allow extension and retraction of the pool cover elements covering and uncovering the pool; and (iv) a hydraulic/pneumatic actuation control means for powering the deck-lid system and the pool cover system housed in the below-deck housing trough, coupled for sequentially: d. allowing the lifted front longitudinal seating structure of the deck-lid supported by the cantilever bracket structure of the pool-deck lid lift system to re-seat on the pool cover element and the top of the below-deck pool sidewall beneath the pool cover element for support after travel of the pool cover elements has been stopped.