Swimming Pool Corner Connector Clamping Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing rectangular swimming pools are difficult to assemble and prone to collapse due to their complex and easily lost components.
Innovation Solution
The design features connecting pieces with plate-shaped and U-shaped components that engage with walls via co-axial holes and bolts, providing a clamped fit and stability, with columns clamped between these pieces to secure the structure, using a minimal number of parts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional swimming pool designs with multiple separate parts are used, then the pool can be assembled, but the assembly process becomes time-consuming and laborious, and parts are easily lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate components (connecting pieces, columns, walls) into an integrated modular system where each module is pre-assembled and self-contained. The connecting pieces are designed with built-in mounting features that directly attach to columns and walls, eliminating the need for separate fastening components and reducing assembly steps while maintaining structural integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The swimming pool is divided into standardized modular segments (connecting pieces, columns, walls) that can be independently manufactured and then quickly assembled. Each segment is designed with universal connection interfaces, allowing for rapid assembly without requiring complex alignment or specialized tools, thus reducing both assembly time and the risk of losing small parts.
2Ease of operation
If traditional swimming pool designs with multiple separate parts are used, then the pool can be assembled, but the structure becomes prone to collapse due to complex connections
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting pieces integrate multiple functions into a single component: they serve as structural supports, connection elements, and mounting brackets all in one. This merging of functions creates a more reliable structure because there are fewer interface points where connections could fail, while the integrated design maintains ease of assembly through straightforward installation procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite construction techniques combining different materials (metal connecting pieces with wooden or plastic columns and walls) to create a structurally superior assembly. The metal connecting pieces provide rigid structural support and clamping forces, while the columns and walls provide the necessary volume and water containment, creating a synergistic composite structure that is both stable and easy to assemble.
3Ease of manufacture
If traditional swimming pool designs are used, then the pool can be constructed, but a large number of parts are required which increases complexity and risk of loss
Solution Approach 1:
The patent reduces the total number of parts by merging multiple functions into fewer components. The connecting pieces are designed to simultaneously serve as structural supports, connection elements, and mounting brackets, eliminating the need for separate fasteners, brackets, and support elements. This reduction in part count simplifies manufacturing while maintaining ease of assembly through the modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
The connecting pieces are designed as universal multi-functional components that can attach to different types of columns and walls through standardized interfaces. This universality allows a single connecting piece design to work across the entire pool structure, reducing the variety of parts needed and simplifying both manufacturing and assembly processes while maintaining structural reliability.
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AI summary
A rectangular swimming pool to be placed on a base, comprising several connecting pieces, several columns as well as several walls, which connecting pieces are designed to connect the walls and the columns together near respective corner points of the swimming pool, characterised in that each connecting piece comprises a first part provided on the inner side of a corner point and a second part provided on the outer side of a corner point, whilst a column is installed between respective end sides of facing walls and between said first part and said second part, wherein the first part, which is plate-shaped, engages with its edges in connecting slots of facing walls on either side thereof, whilst the second part has a substantially U-shaped cross-section for receiving the column in question between legs of said U-shaped cross-section, and wherein the first part, the second part and the column in question are provided with co-axial connecting holes, through which a pin extends for connecting the first part, the second part and the column in question together.