Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Swimming pool cleaner
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Application No.: US14489240Application Date: 2014-09-17
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Publication No.: US09784007B2Publication Date: 2017-10-10
- Inventor: Dieter J. Rief , Hans Rainer Schlitzer
- Applicant: Hayward Industries, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NJ Elizabeth
- Assignee: Hayward Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Hayward Industries, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Elizabeth
- Agency: McCarter & English, LLP
- Main IPC: E04H4/16
- IPC: E04H4/16

Abstract:
A swimming pool cleaner including a body having a debris inlet and a debris outlet and defining an elongate slotted cavity pivotably holding proximal ends of flap members forming a segmented skirt which forms with the pool surface a plenum from which water and debris are drawn into the inlet. The slotted cavity is configured for strain-free insertion of the flap-member proximal ends into the cavity. A removable nozzle within the debris inlet and retaining the flap-member proximal ends in the cavity. A method for inlet to control debris-laden water flow. The cleaner further including a tool-free nozzle-mounting structure at the debris inlet removably retaining the nozzle within the debris inlet and a tool-free wheel-mounting assembly. a plurality of removable nozzles are interchangeably secured within the debris inlet, each nozzle having a flow opening sized differently from flow opening(s) of the other nozzle(s) to control debris-laden water flow.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150020322A1 Swimming Pool Cleaner Public/Granted day:2015-01-22
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