Swimming Pool Basin Cover Platform Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing swimming pool designs with motorized covers suffer from aesthetic discontinuities, dirt accumulation, and maintenance challenges due to the presence of grating and dead spaces around the motorized shutter mechanism.
Innovation Solution
A swimming pool design where the platform supporting the motorized roller shutter is integrated as a monolithic extension of the peripheral wall, eliminating gaps and dead spaces, and ensuring a seamless appearance by matching the surface coating with the pool's edge, thus maintaining tightness and aesthetics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a grating and separate frame structure is used to support the motorized cover, then the cover can be installed and functional, but aesthetic discontinuity and dirt accumulation occur between the frame/grating and the pool walls
Solution Approach 1:
The platform supporting the motorized roller shutter is merged with the peripheral wall to form a monolithic structure. The platform is formed by a wall manufactured with the peripheral wall and extending substantially horizontally the upper face of the peripheral wall, eliminating the need for separate frame structures and grating that create aesthetic discontinuities.
Solution Approach 2:
The harmful elements (separate frame and grating structures that create gaps and aesthetic discontinuities) are extracted from the system. By integrating the platform directly into the peripheral wall construction, the design eliminates the intermediate structures that cause dirt accumulation and visual breaks.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a separate wall is erected to delimit the housing compartment of the motorized cover, then the cover can be separated from the rest of the basin, but dead space is created that is difficult to access and maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is segmented to have a free edge or nose that extends above the cover structure, creating an accessible boundary. This segmentation allows the platform to serve dual purposes: supporting the motorized cover while providing easy access to the housing compartment for maintenance, eliminating the need for separate enclosing walls.
3Device complexity
If gaps and dead spaces are present around the motorized shutter housing, then the structure can accommodate the cover mechanism, but dirt accumulation occurs and maintenance becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is merged with the peripheral wall to form a seamless monolithic structure, eliminating gaps where dirt could accumulate. The integrated design ensures that the platform and wall form a continuous surface with no interstices or free spaces for debris collection.
4Ease of manufacture
If the platform surface coating differs from the peripheral wall coating, then the platform can be distinguished as a separate element, but visual discontinuity breaks the aesthetic appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is given a local quality that matches the peripheral wall through identical surface coating. This local adaptation ensures that the platform blends seamlessly with the existing pool architecture, creating a continuous visual appearance while maintaining the platform's structural function.
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AI summary
The basin has a basin covering structure including a roller shutter (8) that is rolled up around a motorized horizontal roller (9) partially immersed in the basin. The basin covering structure is partially hidden by a support platform (13) supporting a surface coating (14). The platform is extended horizontally at a flat top (3) of a peripheral wall (2). A fixation edge of a flexible impermeable internal lining (5) is formed with a projection (7) at a level of a connection zone of a nose (15) of the platform to adopt a profile of the nose. The projection is extended under the platform.