Swimming Pool Edge Gutter with Inclined Grooves for Water Circulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing swimming pool designs, such as skimmer and infinity pools, face issues with maintenance complexity, hygiene, and high operational costs, with both types requiring compensation tanks and technical rooms that are difficult to maintain, and often result in dirty corners and inefficient water circulation.
Innovation Solution
A swimming pool structure with an edge zone featuring a top wall composed of inclined segments or tiles with grooves or porous material, integrated with a water collection, filtering, and recirculating circuit that allows water to flow from the main tank to a recessed area, eliminating the need for compensation tanks and enabling efficient water circulation and filtration without direct suction into the tank.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If skimmer pools are used with perimeter edge openings for water collection, then water circulation is achieved, but corners remain dirty and mixing is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The pool perimeter is divided into multiple segments with individual skimmers distributed along the edge, ensuring comprehensive water collection from all areas including corners. This segmentation allows water to be drawn from multiple locations simultaneously, eliminating stagnant zones and improving overall circulation efficiency.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If infinity pools are used with overflow channels, then continuous water cleaning is achieved, but construction and operation costs are very high
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the essential function of infinity pools (continuous water cleaning) by using a simpler skimmer system with strategically positioned openings along the perimeter. This removes the need for expensive overflow channels and complex compensation tanks while maintaining effective water circulation and cleaning.
3Productivity
If compensation tanks and technical rooms are added to both pool types, then water management is improved, but maintenance difficulty increases due to hygienic conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The invention removes the need for separate compensation tanks and technical rooms by integrating water management functions directly into the pool structure. The skimmer system with perimeter openings allows direct water collection and filtration at the pool edge, eliminating hidden technical spaces that are difficult to maintain.
4Speed
If direct suction into the tank is used for water circulation, then water flow is achieved, but stagnation areas form in corners
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple skimmers are distributed along the pool perimeter, including corners and edges, to create multiple suction points. This segmentation ensures water flows from all areas simultaneously, preventing stagnation zones while maintaining efficient circulation speed throughout the entire pool volume.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution ensures effective cleanliness, reduces maintenance complexity, and lowers operational costs by eliminating the need for compensation tanks and technical rooms, while ensuring safe user entry and exit, and efficient water circulation without forming stagnation areas.
Implementation Method 1
at least a first top wall (4) designed to allow the passage of users from the outside towards the tank MB and from the latter towards the outside
Implementation Method 2
grooves or porous material
Data Source
AI summary
Swimming pool structure having at least one edge zone including a first surface which delimits and surrounds a main tank (MB) for water containment and at least one top wall designed to allow the passage of users from the external towards said tank (MB), said pool structure also including a water collection, filtering and recirculating circuit in the main tank (MB), in which said at least a top wall includes at least a respective segment inclined with respect to the horizontal and has at least an opening or groove or a structure such as to allow the passage of water through it so as to be conveyed towards said circuit.