Patent ID: 7735163

Claim:
A swimming pool gap securement assembly comprising: a pool cover for covering an opening of a swimming pool, said pool cover having a cover panel; a section of said cover panel extending to a vertically extending obstruction, said obstruction having a substantially vertically extending inner side wall which faces said opening, said obstruction mounted on a deck of said swimming pool interrupting the normally flat swimming pool deck adjacent said opening; said section forming a triangular gap between said deck and one edge of said section; said section of said cover panel having an intersecting pattern of reinforcing webbings which extend beyond edges of said section of said cover panel, said reinforcing webbings extending, laterally and longitudinally, beyond said edges in the form of adjustable straps, said straps each having a distal end carrying means for engaging a knob mounted on said deck of said swimming pool and said obstruction for securing said cover panel section over said opening of said swimming pool; a triangular wing extension panel attached along one side thereof, via a free edge, to said one edge of said section with an opposite side of said wing extension panel overlapping and being flush with said deck, and with a distal side of said wing extension panel folded flush against said vertically extending inner side wall of said obstruction securely closing said triangular gap formed by said cover panel extending to a top of said obstruction between said vertically extending inner side wall of said obstruction and said deck; and said cover panel and wing extension panel being customized on said pool cover to fit a specific obstruction mounted on said swimming pool deck.