The invention provides a pool table body made as a single integral moulding of reinforced synthetic resin material for supporting a covered slate bed providing the playing surface and a pool table including such a body. This construction facilitates construction and transport and enables coin operated mechanisms controlling the pool balls to be housed therein.

A pool scoop for providing a rigid scoop for lifting items off of the bottom of a pool. The pool scoop includes a pole with tubular attachment sleeve at a distal end of the pole. A scoop member is provided having a bottom wall, a pair of spaced apart side walls upwardly extending from the bottom wall, and an end wall upwardly extending from the bottom wall between the side walls. The scoop member has a front edge extending along the bottom wall between the side walls opposite the end wall. The b...

A swimming pool includes a swimming tank, which stores water for swimming; and an upstream tank, which stores water to be supplied into the swimming tank. The pool further includes a downstream tank, which stores the water streamed from the upstream tank through the swimming tank; and a pump, which forces the water stored in the downstream tank to the upstream tank. The water in the upstream tank has an energy head that is higher than the water in the swimming tank so as to generate water curren...

A collapsible pool assembly having a liquid impervious liner with collapsible perimeter walls of modular configuration.

A coin operated pool table is provided with ball collection channels formed in a sheet of material substantially co-extensive with and supported in the base below the table top such that the sheet prevents escape of the balls and protects the table top components housed in the base.

A pool skimmer and the like including a skimmer assembly adapted for use with residential and commercial installations with means for selectively operatively connecting various lines and apparatus in a system for liquid surface skimming, vacuuming and liquid draining having means for cleaning and filtering pool liquid for reuse thereof, wherein means are provided for simplifying establishing all necessary conduit connections for main outlet plumbing, skimmer plumbing and vacuum connections, the ...

A pool table is provided with a pair of leg structures which are pivotal between erect and collapsed positions. The leg structures support the table in the erect position and are folded against the table in the collapsed position. A mobile support structure is provided and includes a pair of wheel-supporting members each having wheels thereon and each being connected to the frame of the pool table for movement between operative and inoperative positions. The wheel mounting members when in the op...

Pool chlorination is effected safely and swiftly by discharging pressurized C1.sub.2 into the pool water recirculation system from a pressure resistant container, suitably having a rupturable closure arranged for directionally controlled release of the C1.sub.2 contents.

A swimming pool has a pair of end members made of sheet material each having its side and bottom edge portions secured and sealed in a longitudinal groove in a flexible strip of extruded material, the strip also having a pair of longitudinal spaced parallel flanges perpendicular to the groove; and a side and bottom piece of flexible sheet material, each lateral edge of which is engaged in the channel defined by the parallel flanges of the flexible strip secured to the sides and bottom of an end ...

A pool toy comprising a buoyant body having a central part on which a rider is adapted to be seated, and two end parts, the end parts being raised relatively to the central part and each being of greater volume than the central part.