SWIMMING POOL, COMPONENTS THEREOF, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAID COMPONENTS

摘要

A swimming pool having a panel composed in its entirety of a single unit of plastic and having an upright relatively thin wall an inner surface of which is directed toward the interior of the pool and an outer surface of which is directed away from the interior of the pool, this wall having at an upper region a stepped portion defining a recess extending along the upper region of the wall and directed toward the interior of the pool with the outer surface being stepped as well as the inner surface, and with this stepped portion being situated directly beneath a coping portion formed by a part of the wall which is curved first inwardly toward the interior of the pool and then upwardly and outwardly away from the pool to form a coping portion which has a hollow inner interior part situated over the recess formed by the stepped portion. An elongated fastener strip is adapted to be received in the recess defined by the stepped portion for releasably fastening an upper edge of a liner sheet to the panel so as to extend downwardly from the recess along the inner surface of the panel.