System and Method for a Disappearing Spa Cover Lifter

摘要

A spa cover lifting device that easily lifts and stows the removed cover out of sight below the upper edge of the spa is disclosed. When closing, the lifter assists the cover up out of its hidden stowage, and guides the cover back into position on the spa. One difference in this design from current art is that the spa cover when stowed disappears out of sight to those in the spa, below the top edge of the spa. Current spa cover lifters generally all park at least part of the stowed cover above the top edge of the spa, blocking views and reducing apparent roominess. Fourteen exemplary methods are shown to accomplish such a spa cover lifter, accommodating different size spas and cover designs, but it could also be done in other ways.

主权项

1. A spa cover lifting device, configured to be coupled to and between a spa and a spa cover, wherein the spa cover has a stowed configuration not covering the spa and a deployed configuration in which the spa is covered, and wherein the spa cover lifting device is configured to move the spa cover between the stowed configuration and the deployed configuration, and vice-versa, and such that in the stowed configuration the spa cover is disposed on at least one side of the spa and below a top plane of the spa.