Patent ID: 8359681

Claim:
A swimming pool safety cover of the solid fabric variety comprising: a flexible fabric cover configured to cover a swimming pool and adapted to be stretched tautly over and spaced from the water surface, said cover extending beyond the pool edge and including a plurality of anchor straps extending beyond the cover edges for attachment to the surrounding pool decking; said flexible cover fabric comprising a plurality of pieces of reinforced thermoplastic polymer shaped and dimensioned to fit together to conform to the shape of the pool perimeter and to extend beyond the pool edge, the edges of the pieces being heat sealed to the edges of adjacent pieces to form a unitary cover having a plurality of heat sealed seams; and each anchor strap of said plurality of anchor straps extending along a portion of and heat sealed to one side of the cover and projecting outwardly from and spaced apart along the periphery of the cover for attachment to hardware attached to the surrounding pool decking, the projecting portion of each anchor strap being sufficiently long to attach to said hardware and the portion of each strap extending along and heat sealed to said cover being no longer than one to three times the length of the projecting portion, said cover being free of support straps extending from one edge to an opposite edge of said cover.